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WHILE the .presence of quantities of fat in the substance of the falciform ligament is a common finding, this fat is usually incorporated evenly so that the ligament presents a smooth surface.That such fat should project as a pedunculated mass from the surface is less common, and that such a tag should undergo torsion and thereby present as an abdominal emergency is a condition which does not appear to have been recorded in the literature.

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A discourse on the careers and events that relate to Everard Home's Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, published in six volumes, of which the final supplementary volume of 1828 is in the Gordon Craig Library. This volume contains 68 engravings, of subjects as diverse as the stomach of the alpaca and the female organs of the duckbilled platypus Ornithorhynchus, and Home's credentials occupy about half of the title page.