Excerpt from The Anatomy of the Intestinal Canal and Peritoneum in Man The account of the intestinal canal and peritoneum in man that is here presented is derived from the systematic examination of one hundred fresh bodies. Through the kindness of my colleagues, Drs. Sutton and Turner, the pathologists to the London Hospital, I was enabled to open, before the performance of the usual necropsy, all the bodies of patients who had died of other than abdominal disease. The bodies, therefore were quite fresh, and, in many instances, still warm. I had long been convinced that a study of this part of anatomy was rendered liable to many fallacies when conducted in dissecting - room subjects in whom decomposition had advanced, and in whom one could expect, for various reasons, some displacement of parts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.