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Show 830 MR. P. E. BEDDARD ON THE [Dec. 3, membrane in which run blood-vessels &c. From about the region where tbe two aortse join, at the anterior end of the kidneys, there appeared to be no layer covering the muscles other than the first-described membrane. The accompanying drawing (fig. 1) illustrates the lungs and the diaphragmatic membrane as seen from the interior of the body. It will be observed that the lung is bifid and that it is Fig. 1. Pipa surinamensis. General view of abdominal viscera. H., heart; L, lung ; (Es., oesophagus ; St., stomach; m, musculus pulmonum proprius. firmly attached to the membrane except in two regions ; the smaller lobe is not so attached, and the main lobe is free for about the last three quarters of an inch of its length. The drawing will also partly explain why I have used the expression " diaphragm " in describing the strong sheet of peritoneum which is so readily detachable from the parietes. It will be noticed that narrow |
