Note C — SECTION V. OF THE VASCULAR SYSTEM OF MUCOUS MEMBRANES.

This is a necessary consequence of the disposition of the vascular system of the stomach. The arteria coronaria ventriculi superior being situated transversely between the stomach and the omentum, and furnishing branches to both, it is evident, that when the stomach, by separating the duplicatures of the omentum, lodges itself between them, and this in applying itself over the stomach becomes shortened, the branches that it receives from that artery cannot in the same manner apply themselves to it. To effect this it would be necessary, that they should proceed from the one to the other without the intermediate trunk that cuts them at right angles; then the stomach, by distending itself, would separate them in the same way that it does the omentum, and would lodge between them, instead of pushing them before it with their common trunk, and folding them upon themselves.