PREFACE. 



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In the following pages an attempt is made to gi\'e the principal 

 ligaments and skeletal muscles of the horse in a condensed and sim- 

 plified form. Consequently, the smaller ligaments of the complex 

 joints have been entirely omitted. The muscles of the eye, ear, 

 larnyx, etc., have also been omitted, as belonging more properly to 

 the description of the special organs with which they are connected. 



