Excerpt from Lectures and Essays And then, on separating and removing the whole, of this skin and flesh, you have a great series Of bones, hard structures, bound together with ligaments, and forming the skeleton which is represented here. In that skeleton there are a number of parts to be recognized. The long series of bones, beginning from the skull and ending in the tail, is called the spine, and those in front are the ribs; and then there are two pairs of limbs, one before and one behind; and there are what we all know as the fore-legs and the hind-legs. If we pursue our researches into the interior Of this animal, we find within the framework of the skeleton a great cavity, or rather, I should say, two great cavities, - One cavity beginning in the skull and running through the neck-bones, along the spine, and ending in the tail, con taining the brain and the spinal marrow, which are extremely important organs. The second great cavity, commencing with the mouth, contains the gullet, the stomach, the long intestine, and all the'rest of those internal apparatus which' are essential for digestion; and then in the same great cavity, there are lodged the heart and all the great vessels going from it; and, besides-that, the organs of respiration-the lungs; and then the kidneys, and the organs of reproduction, and so on. Let us now endeavour to reduce this notion Of a horse that we now have, to some such kind of simple expr'ession as can'be at once, and without difficulty, retained in the mind, apart from all minor details. If I make a transverse section. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.