. The horse in the stable and the field : his management in health and disease. ?S-|gFiJSS3?g£? = B 3E = ?. THE SKELETON. 251 time it serves the purpose of locomotion. In both these divisionsof the animal kingdom the skeleton forms a series of arches orrings, capable of moving on each other, but so firmly attached asto secure protection to the important organs contained within the horse, as in all the higher mammalia, these rings or archesare double—one set, the superior, being continuous throughout thewhole length of the animal from the head to the root of the tail,and containing t
. The horse in the stable and the field : his management in health and disease. ?S-|gFiJSS3?g£? = B 3E = ?. THE SKELETON. 251 time it serves the purpose of locomotion. In both these divisionsof the animal kingdom the skeleton forms a series of arches orrings, capable of moving on each other, but so firmly attached asto secure protection to the important organs contained within the horse, as in all the higher mammalia, these rings or archesare double—one set, the superior, being continuous throughout thewhole length of the animal from the head to the root of the tail,and containing the nervous system; while the other lying below,but closely connected to them, is interrupted in certain localities,being found to exist chiefly in three regions :—1st, where it formsthe jaws and bone of the tongue; 2d, where, by means of the ribsand sternum, it constitutes the thorax and its appendages, the an-terior extremities; and, thirdl}^, where, in the shape of the pelvicarch, it protects the organs of generation, and, through the poste-rior extremities prolonged from it, assists in locomotion.
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