Elementary lectures on veterinary science, for agricultural students, farmers, and stockkeepers (1913) (14597964897)

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Title: Elementary lectures on veterinary science, for agricultural students, farmers, and stockkeepers ..

Year: 1913 (1910s)

Authors: Thompson, Henry

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Publisher: London, Baillière, Tindall and Cox

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

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of two parts—i.e., onewhite cuticular, resembling the surface skin, and con-nected with the opening of the gullet, which entersthe stomach on the left side by the cardiac orifice ; theother pale pink, villous, or velvety, on the right side ofthe stomach, and this is the true digestive portion,being continued into the small intestine by the openingtermed the pyloric orifice. (6) The Small Intestine of the Horse (Plate XVIL, No. 9).—This comprises the duodenum, 2 feet long ; thejejunum, 30 feet long ; and the ileum, 40 feet long. Thetotal capacity of the small intestine is estimated to beabout II gallons. (7) The Large Intestine of the Horse (Plate XVIL, Nos. 10, 11, and 12).—This is divided into the ccBCum,or blind gut (commonly called the water-hag), 3 feet tl2 ^ X o H to O -5 co 73 S _l> a o ^ ^ O o o c/) fii ^ tie ^ ^ ^ s o C/5 W o 1! o c 0) 3 G tJD o o(JO 8 Sb t-H 1 u O H 6 eg- 1—( K O ^ h H (1) ^ H fi .5 03 u o* o (-) G U. O a) <i) 23 u K H in o t^ 00 o m O r^ 00 o^

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THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS 131 long, having a capacity of 4 gallons; the colons, largediudi floating, 20 feet long, with a capacity of 12 gallons;and the vectum, which is the termination of the intestinalcanal, 2 feet long, and with a capacity of 3 gallons.The estimated average length of a horses intestinesis 97 feet, and total capacity 30 gallons. Like thestomach, the walls of the intestines have three coats :the outside serous ; the middle musculav (longitudinal andcircular); and the inside, covered with epithelium anda mucous membrane, and well studded throughout withvarious glands. 222. Besides the above named, which are found, not only in thehorse, but also in the pig and dog, and in a general sense also incattle and sheep, there are also the accessory digestive organs, thatperform functions which assist digestion—that is to say, they convertthe food into such a state that it can be absorbed and taken intothe blood and conveyed to the different parts of the system, to beassimilated f

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