Cattle 1853 - Lewis Family Farm

330 CATTLE.
able to disease or to some purgative drug. The inner coat is a
mucous one, thickly studded with minute glands, which, in a state
of health, secrete sufficient mucous fluid to lubricate the passage
and, under the stimulus of a purgative, throw out a fluid
t
increased
in quantity, and of a more aqueous character, and in which the contents
of the intestines are softened and involved and carried away.
1. The Duodenum.
2. The Jejunum.
3. The Ileum.
4. The Ca>cum.
5. The Colon.
6. The Rectum.
THE DUODENUM.
7. The Mesentery.
8. Mesenteric Glands.
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On this coat likewise open the mouths of innumerable vessels
the lacteal absorbents—which imbibe or take up the nutritive portion
of the food. These vessels ramify across the mesentery,, and convey
this nutriment to a common duct that passes along it, and" by
means of which it is carried into the great veins in the neighborhood