FOR years I have taught that the omentum has important functions, and to impress this upon students I have called it the " abdominal policeman."There can be no doubt that it travels about in the abdomen with considerable rapidity, and is attracted by some sort of information to neighbourhoods in which mischief is brewing.
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Rutherford Morison (1906) studied this question.