. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. through the left ven-tricle ; and this, by its powerful contraction,forces the blood through the aorta /, and thearteries of the whole body to the capillaries a,from which the description commenced. While the venous blood is on its way to theheart, when near it, it is met by the tho-racic duct (see ;^,j, Fig. 694J, which conveysinto this returning blood the nutritive prop-erty of the food extracted from it by thedigestive organs. With this new supply of nutritious matter, theblood goes t
. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. through the left ven-tricle ; and this, by its powerful contraction,forces the blood through the aorta /, and thearteries of the whole body to the capillaries a,from which the description commenced. While the venous blood is on its way to theheart, when near it, it is met by the tho-racic duct (see ;^,j, Fig. 694J, which conveysinto this returning blood the nutritive prop-erty of the food extracted from it by thedigestive organs. With this new supply of nutritious matter, theblood goes to the heart and lungs to be oxygenized by contactwith the air, and thus be continued through the heart and arteriesas before explained. The system takes up its material for its wearand tear through the capillaries or hair-like tubes, which are inter-posed between the two great divisions of the vascular system, ar-teries and veins. These little tubes are so small that they arefrom looo to 4 0^0 0 of an inch in diameter. The smaller are foundin the retina of the eye and brain, the larger in the liver and. Fig. 692.—Plan of theCirculation. TUB CIRCULATION. 403 lungs. The worn-out tissue of the body is also taken up by theblood, and carried off through the bowels, lungs, kidneys, and skin,which are the natural sewers or depurative channels of the quantity of blood that a horse contains is about ,V of his weight.
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