. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . causes the changes in the relations of theconvolutions of the intestines. These shocks and knocks and rub-bings act as a mechanical excitant upon the muscular fibre, whichin consequence contracts with more energy, preserving, however,the peculiar character of the fibre-cells; that is, of contractingslowly and successively; the action of the fibre being increasedand the peristaltic contractions acquiring more power, there re-sults from it a more intimate mixture of the juices and alimentsin the stomach, a more perfect chymification of the food, a
. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . causes the changes in the relations of theconvolutions of the intestines. These shocks and knocks and rub-bings act as a mechanical excitant upon the muscular fibre, whichin consequence contracts with more energy, preserving, however,the peculiar character of the fibre-cells; that is, of contractingslowly and successively; the action of the fibre being increasedand the peristaltic contractions acquiring more power, there re-sults from it a more intimate mixture of the juices and alimentsin the stomach, a more perfect chymification of the food, and amore prompt and complete absorption of mattersahcady digested;and, lastly, all those which have as yet escaped the process arebrought into the portions of the intestines where their metamor-phosis is effected. CHAPTER XIII. SUBJECTION. In this chapter I wish to embody explanations which Icould not well give in other parts 5 it may also he consideredas a continuation of the first chapter. The first account I find of any one taming a horse is. Fig. 252.—The leg tied up, and surcingle on. that of Alexander the Great, when a boy of seventeen,taming Bucephalus. The story, as recorded, is as follows :A horse was offered for sale to Philip of Macedon, who,perceiving he was unmanageable, ordered him to be taken (363) HISTOEICAL FACTS. 363
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