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Excerpt from The Horse in the Stable and the Field, Vol. 2: His Varieties, Management in Health and Disease, Anatomy, Physiology, Etc
The body or the horse, like all the vertebrate animals, may be con sidered as made up of several distinct apparatuses or systems. Of these, the first is a machine composed of the bony skeleton, or framework, the various parts of which are united by joints and moved by muscles. Secondly, there are contained within the thorax the organs which supply the whole body with the means of nutrition in the form of blood, and purify this ?uid. Thirdly, in the abdomen are presented to View the important organs which assimilate the food to the condition of the blood; while in the adjoining cavity, the pelvis, are the urinary and generative apparatuses. Fourthly, the nervous system may be considered, as comprising the grand centre of the mental faculties, and, also, as presiding over and controlling the whole of the functions performed by the several organs and fifthly, certain special organs, as, for example, those of sense, and likewise the foot, will complete the whole circle of systems to be reviewed. Each of these groups will, therefore, be described in a separate chapter.
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