Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1461/en

This occurrence, which embraces the whole being of the ox, is fulfilled by neither the greater nor the lesser omentum. Both have specific functions outside the digestive process and the transformation steps connected with it toward a higher working of forces. Both display a similar anatomical structure, with a serosa double lamella and the nerve, blood and lymph vessels, lymph nodes and connective tissue lying between them — the last-named, however, strongly reduced. Characteristic of the greater omentum is the net-like distribution of deposited fatty tissue. But what does this anatomical kinship signify? The sense function is fundamentally different. It is one that — so one may assume — directs itself toward the perception and regulation of the harmonious co-working of the

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