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Show Description oft/1e Situation and Number THE GLANDS OF THE OMENTUM AND STOMACH. It is seldom that any glands are found on the omentum till, you come near the great arch of the stomach; they are about three or four in number, in the course of the gastrica dextra and sinistra; and, though they belong to the omentum as much as to the stomach, have been considered by some anatomists as belonging to the stomach only, and been termed glandula: ventriculi inferiores. There are some small glands also on the edge of the little epiploon, where it adheres to the small arch (if-the stomach; these, from their situation, have been termed glandulae ventriculi superiores. THE GLANDS OF THE LIVER, PANCREAS, AND SPLEEN. The trunk of the vena portarum, near its entrance into the liver, is sur- (fl/J3 Glands 17/ #96 Ansonssnrs. 141 diaphragm before, and to the right and left of the pericar dium: commonly these glands belong as much to the liver as to the diaphragm, and may, of course, be morbidly affected, either from the diseases of the liver, or of the diaphragm only; sometimes I have seen them belonging to the dia- phragm only: the absorbents of the liver, which usually perforate the dia- phragm passing under it and downwards, instead of upwards, to the lower part of the thoracic duct. MAMMARY GLANDS. These are smaller than the former, and like their vessels, are situated by the sides of the mammary veins, at small distance s from each other, to the number, sometimes, of ten or twelve; I have seldom seen them di- seased, except in scrophulous children, and they are common ly so small, as to escape cursory observation. rounded with absorbent glands ; these I have seen diseased, and distended to an enormous size, and compressing both the ductus communis choledochus, and the pancreatic duct, at the place of their insertion into the duodenum: this produced constipation, white stools, jaundice, and a train of hypo- chondriac symptoms. This plexus is connected with another, which runs In the course of the splenic artery and vein, and belongs to the stomach, pancreas, and spleen. GLANDS OF THE THORAX. These divide themselves into six classes; those of the diaphragm; those which accompany the arteries mamariae internae; those of the heart and aorta; those of the lungs; those of the oesophagus; and those of the spine and intercostal spaces. GLANDS OF THE DIAPHRAGM. There are live, six, or eight in number, very constant in their situation, and may be found almost always on the anterior or upper surface of the diaphragm CARDIAC GLANDS. These are larger than the last described, seldom more than four or five in number, and situated either on, before, or behind the arch of the aorta: those belonging to the right side of the heart, are usually found between the origins of the right and left carotids; those of the left side, between the arch of the aorta and anterior surface of the trachea, and in sortie (liseases of the heart, are found also diseased. PULMONARY GLANDS. By this term, anatomists understand either the secreting smaller glands of the internal surface of the trachea, and air-cells, Or the larger, not secreting, but absorbent glands at the root of the lungs, on the outside of the bronchiae; here I mean only the last. I-Ialler says, " qua: cum arteria aspera dcscendunt cm pariter (jus ramum comitantur ct pulinoncs grandia vasa circumstant ct arteriorcs et postcriores." These are still larger than those of the heart, eight, ten, or twelve in number, communicat ing with the |