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abound in most languages of the civilized world.* It 

 might, therefore, seem almost superfluous to add any- 

 thing further to the subject certainly difficult to 

 say anything new. 



The topographical anatomy of the horse has, 

 however, been always hitherto described just as if it 

 were a complex piece of machinery, isolated and dis- 

 tinct from anything else in the world, the very names 

 given to the parts of which it is composed often 

 having relation only to their conditions of existence 

 in the horse, and being entirely different from those 

 in use for the corresponding parts of man or of other 

 animals. Until lately, at least, the idea that the 



* Among the most important of these are : 



G. Stubbs : Anatomy of the Horse, 1766. 



W. Percivall : TJie Anatomy of the Horse, 1832. 



E. F. Gurlt : Anatomische Abbildungen der Haussdugethicre, 

 1824 ; and Handbuch der vergleich. Anat. der Haussaugethiere, 

 1822. 



A. G. T. Leisering : Atlas der Anatomic des Pferdes, 1861. 



Leisering and Miiller : Handbuch der vergleichenden Anat' 

 omie der Haussaugethiere, 6th edit., 1885. 



Chauveau and Arloing : Traite tfanatomie comparee des 

 animeaux domestiques, 1871 j and English edition by G. Flem- 

 ing, 1873. 



M. S. Arloing : Organisation du pied ctiez le clieval (Ann. 

 Soi. Nat., 1867). 



Franz Miiller : Lehrbuch der Anatomic des Pferdes, 1853. 



Cuyer and Alix : Le Cheval, 1886. 



J. McFadyean : Anatomy of the Horse : a Dissection Guide } 

 1884. 



W. Youatt : The Horse, 1831. 

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