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manor, to the penaltj^ of twenty pounds for having no 

 certificate, and also five pounds more as being dis- 

 quaUfied. 



ON THE GENERAL STRUCTURE OF THE 

 HORSE. 



In a work of this nature, designed to discuss the his- 

 tory and relative diseases of both horses and hve 

 stock generally, and to give a variety of useful infor- 

 mation as well for the practice as the observation 

 of country gentlemen, farmers, and all who are any 

 ways interested in the rearing and cultivation of those 

 animals which an ever bountiful Providence has ren- 

 dered capable of being domesticated to the service and 

 use of man, it would be of little utility, and indeed 

 foreign to our purpose, to enter into any minute and 

 lengthened detail of the anatomy of those animals ; and 

 yet, from the nature of diseases, fractures, and other 

 accidents to which they are subject, if the names of 

 certain bones, or the conformation and general struc- 

 ture of particular parts of the system were totally un- 

 known, the reader would be somewhat perplexed in 

 distinguishing one vein, muscle, &c. from another, and 

 thus the treatment of the disease in a measure might 

 be rendered abortive, or the symptoms of one malady 

 in all probability be mistaken for those of another and 

 fatal termination be the consequence. 

 . To remedy this, it is deemed necessary to say a few 

 words on the general structure of the horse, being the 

 animal now under consideration ; and to make the 

 subject as explicit as possible, plates will be found in 



