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nutil the job was ended, and the clamps put on. Walking 

 off like a man in a dream, I took the vial, and though cau- 

 tioned by the man not to smell it, I was anxious to see if 

 I could detect any of the ingredients. A terrible head- 

 ache was the result. It was generally remarked that the 

 horses he had operated on never had as much spirit 

 afterwards as those treated after the common method. 



If motion can be paralyzed thus quickly by something 

 acting on the brain, why should there not be a difference 

 in power transferred thence to the muscles ? We will to 

 move our arm, and the motion is performed without our 

 being able to know how it has been done. At times we 

 are aware of having more pewer than at others, and can- 

 not account for it, unless by crediting the brain with aug- 

 menting the muscular force. I am so confident that this 

 is the great source of motive force, that I always anxiously 

 look for the signs that make it manifest to the eye. I do 

 not mean to be understood that this lessens the neces- 

 sity for proper conformation, but that it must be united 

 with it to form the truly valuable animal. How will you 

 determine it from the appearance ? is a very pertinent ques- 

 tion ; and I am afraid I will not be able to answer it as 

 satisfactorily as I could wish. To deduce, from Cranios 

 copy, the peculiarities and qualifications of mankind, has 

 been the pursuit of some of the most gifted of the human 

 family. They have divided and mapped the skull, locat- 

 ing to a specific point what they considered the fountain- 

 head of feeling, taste, and adaptability for certain pur- 

 suits. They base this knowledge upon the examination 

 of the heads of men who have been celebrated or no- 

 torious for the possession of qualities that made them 

 eminent, and, from prominences found more marked than 

 the generality of the family, argue that this portion of the 

 brain gave such a preponderance. 



I have in this spirit studied the head of the horse, and 



