Chap. VL The Anatomy <?/^ HORSE. 79 



The Corofiai\ fo called becaufe the Ancients were wont to 

 wear their Crowns or Garlands on that Part. The Suture, 

 as in Men, To likewife in a Horfe, runs athwart the Skull> 

 above the Forehead, reaching on each Side to the Temple- 

 bones, and joining the Forehead-bone to the Sinciput. 



The fecond, La??ibdoides, becaufe of its Refemblance to 

 the Greek Letter A, This is feated on the hind Part of the 

 Head, being oppofite to the other, beginning at the Bot- 

 tom of the Occiput^ and defcending above the Ear fome- 

 what higher than in Men. It joins the Bone of the Occi- 

 put^ or hind and under Part of the Skull, to the Bones of 

 the Sinciput and Temples. 



The third begins at the Middle of the Lamhdoidal Su- 

 ture, dividing the two Bones of the Sinciput^ and is there- 

 fore called the Sagittal Suture ; but in Horfes, and many 

 other Quadrupeds, it crofles the Coronal Suture, as in Chil- 

 dren, quite down to the Nofe. This Suture in a Horfe 

 is not fo much indent as the other two, but is in a great 

 Meafure ftrcight and linear. 



The falfe Sutures are in Number two; Its falfe Su- 

 the firll palles from the Root of the Pro- t^res, 

 cejfus Mammillaris with a circular Duit, returning dowri 

 again towards the Ear, encompaiHng the Temple-bone. 



The fecond runs obliquely downwards, ariling from the 

 Top of the former, and pafles to the Socket of the Eye^ 

 ^nd the Beginning of the firft common Suture. 



Thefe Sutures, which are common to the ^hoje common 

 Skull, the Wedge- like Bone, and upper Jaw, ^-^ ^^^^ Skull and 

 are chiefly thefe three that follow, to wit, ^Pperjanv. 

 the Frontal^ the Wedge-like Suture^ and the Crihrofa : 

 The firft being that by which the Procefs of the Forehead- 

 bone is join'd with the firft Bone of the upper Jaw ; the 

 fecond that by which the Wedge-like Bone is join'd with 

 the firft Bone of the fame Jaw ; and the third that Suture 

 which is common to the Wedge-like Bone and the Septum^ 

 or Partition of the Nofe. 



The Sutures are of Ufe, not only as they 'TheirU/e. 

 divide the Bones which compofe the Skull, 

 butalfo as they afford a free Ingrefs and Egrefs for the VefTels 

 which fupply Life and Nourifhment to the Parts contained 

 within the Skull, and likewife as they give a Pallage to thofe 

 little Fibres, by which the Dura Mater is kept fufpended : 

 And further, they are of Ufe in Cafe the Skull Ihould at any 

 time happen to be broke, that any fuch Fracture or Fiilure 



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