20 PRACTICAL ADVANTAGES [BOOK I. 



Much more remains to be done ; but we press 

 no more upon his notice at present: the circu- 

 lation, lactification, digestion, and respiration, 

 which are carried on by the organs of life just 

 enumerated, are traced upward, from effect to cause, 

 in the second chapter. In that chapter he will 

 find ample means for enabling him to make the 

 most profit of the examinations we are now recom- 

 mending him to pursue. He will there meet with 

 frequent references to the skeleton of a horse which 

 stands at the front of the present volume, and with 

 which print we presume he is already somewhat 

 acquainted ; by consulting what is said of it at pages 

 22, 23, and 24, he will learn more. 



14. Although his enquiries should proceed no 

 further than this slight kind of examination comes 

 to, the acquisitions thus made would at all times 

 give the industrious enquirer immense advantages 

 over the practitioner who continues to give his 

 strong and, therefore, destructive medicines without 

 caring to take a glance at the parts on which they 

 are destined to operate. At the very lowest esti- 

 mate, the student will hereby ascertain what are 

 the appearances of those organs when the functions 

 of life have been duly performed ; for it is not too 

 much to suppose, that he will meet with some 

 horses which have died in comparatively good 

 health, through accidents on the road ; and com- 

 pare those with the appearance of others which 

 have died after protracted illness, through some 

 well-known disorder, or in consequence of improper 



