Cattle 1853 - Lewis Family Farm

288 • CATTLE.
the case when the pellet of food is returned for remastieation—it is
thrown into the canal from the reticulum—it is seized by the power-
ful muscles at the base of the gullet, and carried up by the spiral
muscles of that tube in order to be remasticated. It will be seen the
upper pillar (situated towards the .right in the living subject), and
the lower part of the opening made by the relaxation of the pillars,
belong to the reticulum ; the lower pillar and the anterior portion
of the opening (situated towards the left) belong to the roof of the
rumen. This is very satisfactorily seen in the dried stomach of a
young calf.
e is the manyplus, or third stomach, and through which the canal
is still to be traced to
6, the abomasum, or fourth, or true digesting stomach. So that,
as was asserted, this canal leads to no particular stomach exclusively,
but to all of them according to circumstances.
We are now, perhaps, prepared to return to the consideration of
the first cut (p. 285).
c e represent the form of this stomach in the greater part of ruminants,
and particularly in oxen and sheep. It is situated somewhat
obliquely in the abdominal cavity, and occupies nearly three-fourths
of it. It is divided into two unequal compartments, or sacs, and
reaches from the diaphragm to tbe pelvic cavity. By its superior
surface it is attached to the sublumbar region by its vessels, nerves,
and a portion of mesentery. On the right side it is covered by a
portion of the intestines ; on the left side it is more elevated, and
is in contact with the left flank. It is on this account that we
are sometimes induced to adopt the unsurgical mode of giving relief
in cases of hoove ; for when we plunge our lancet or knife into the