XIX. Observations on the camel's stomach respecting the water it contains, and the reservoirs, in which that fluid is inclosed; with an account of some peculiarities in the urine

Abstract

The Board of Curators of the Museum belonging to the Royal College of Surgeons, formed of seven Members of the Court of Assistants, have from their first appointment em­braced every opportunity of augmenting the Hunterian Collection: and in December, 1805, hearing that a camel in a dying state was to be sold, purchased it with a view of illustrating the anatomy of that animal. They appointed Mr. Long, (their Chairman,) Mr. Cline, Teacher of Anatomy, with Sir William Blizard and myself, the two Professors of Anatomy and Surgery to the College, a Committee for that purpose. As Professor of Comparative Anatomy I was directed to examine the peculiarities of the stomach, and to make a report on that subject. This report appeared to the Board of Cu­rators to contain some facts, which had not before been ascer­tained; and it is at their desire that the present communica­tion is made.