On Disease of the Omentum

yet fallen under my own observation, may be said to be few in number. The structure and offices of this membranous expansion are simple. The extended surfaces of the peritoneal laminae, connected together by a line intermediate cellular texture, afford convenient space for the termination of innumerable exhalent arteries, breathing forth a genial moisture upon the other viscera of the abdomen, as well as lor the occasional deposition of adipose matter. In several instances I have examined the bodies of the dead, in whom a cancerous affection of the omentum had taken place. In one of these, the disease in the omentum