TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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Translator and Editor's Preface . . . . . . vii 



Preface to the First Edition ....... xi 



Preface to the Second Edition . . . . . . xv 



Table of Contents ........ xvii 



Table of Illustrations ....... xxxvi 



GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. 

 Definition and Division of Anatomy ...... 1 



Enumeration and Classification of the Domesticated Animals ... 2 



General Idea of the Organisation of Animals, and the order followed in studying 



their apparatus ..... ... 3 



BOOK I. 



LOCOMOTORY APPARATUS. 



FIRST SECTION. The Bones ....... 6 



CHAPTER I. The Bones in General ...... 6 



Article i. The Skeleton ....... 7 



Article n. General Principles applicable to the Study of all the Bones . 10 



Name, Situation, Direction, and Configuration of the Bones . . 10 



Internal Conformation of the Bones. Structure of the Bones . .13 



Development of the Bones . . . . . . 16 



CHAPTER II. The Bones of Mammalia in Particular . . . .18 



Article i. Vertebral Column ...... 18 



Characters Common to all the Vertebra? . . . . .19 



Characters Proper to the Vei k-bra3 in each region ... 21 



1. Cervical Vertebrae . . . . . . .21 



2. Dorsal Vertebrae ....... 24 



3. Lumbar Vertebrae . . . . . . .25 



4. Sacrum ........ 26 



5. Coccygeal Vertebrae . . . . . . .27 



Of the Spine in General ...... 28 



Differential Characters in the Vertebral Column of other than Soliped 



Animals . . . . . . . .29 



Comparison of the Vertebral Column of Man with that of Animals . 32 



Article 11. Tne Head . . . . . . .33 



The Bones of the Cranium . . . . . . 33 



1. Occipital ........ 33 



2. Parietal ........ 35 



3. Frontal . ...... 36 



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