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MUSCULAR SYSTEM. 



Q. How is the general muscular system divided? 



&. Into the muscular systems of animal and organic 

 life. 



Q. In what respects do these differ from each other? 



/?. They differ in the vital forces which animate them-, 

 in their external forms ; in their mode of organization ; 

 and the parts they perform in animal and organic life. 



I. OF THE MUSCULAR SYSTEM OF ANIMAL LIFE. 



Q. What are its first conspicuous characters ? 



/?. The size it attains, and space it occupies; and its 

 agency in, and adaptation to the defence of the vital or- 

 gans. 



Of the Forms of the Muscular System of Animal Life. 



Q. How are these muscles divided? 

 #. As the bones are, into long, broad, and short mus- 

 cles. 



1. Of the Long Muscles, 



Q. Where do you find these? 



A. Generally in the limbs. 



Q. What external and internal layers belong to them? 



