^0 ANATOMICAL CONSIDERATIONS. 



and there it is subsequently mixed with the fluid secretion of the bowels, 

 whereby the nutritive matter is separated and rendered fit for absorption. 



TUB FIGURE OP A H0E8E, POETRATINQ THE COMPARATIVE IMPORTANCE AND THE RELATIVE SITUATIONS OP 

 SOME INTERNAL ORGANS. 



1. The lungs. 2. The stomach. 3. The colon. 4. The diaphragm. 6. The situation of the hladder. 



The smallness of the horse's stomach is in itself sufficient evidence that 

 the quadruped was designed to be a frequent feeder. It was not intended 

 to endure prolonged abstinence ; for almost in every region which the 

 animal may canter over, its legitimate food abounds. Man, however, 

 frequently starves the creature, that a loaded stomach may not interfere 

 with the activity of the respiration ; he, in his ignorance and in his pre- 

 sumption, not being willing to trust to such provision as the All-wise 

 had made, anticipatory of this accident. At other times, the quadruped 

 is suffered to over-gorge, its keeper paying no regard to its requirements. 

 After an excessive fast, a quantity of cut food is placed in the manger, 

 and the ravenous horse eats, and eats, till its small stomach, being un- 

 equal to the reception of much bolted provender, cracks its walls from 

 excessive repletion. Such a circumstance does not demonstrate that 

 nature was wrong, or that the equine races were formed unequal to 

 their purposes; but it satisfactorily establishes that man cannot, with 

 impunity, cross the designs or run counter to the institutions of Omnip- 

 otence. 



The horse was created to live off the grass of the field. This habit 

 necessitated that much ground should be traveled before the appetite 

 of so large a body could be appeased ; and the distance was the greater 

 as the animal was sent upon the earth a nice feeder — biting oft the juicy 

 tops of the herbage, not tearing up roots and all, like the less scrupulous 



