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order to give a general idea of the circulatory 

 apartment. 



CHAMBERS OF THE BRAIN. Before I de- 

 scribe these I shall be obliged to say something 

 more about the brain itself, though I have partly 

 described it at page 39. 



Here is a picture of the bones of the cranium 

 those which hold the brain. It is the same 

 picture which you saw at page 74, but for con- 

 venience' sake I have introduced it again in 

 this place. 





When I was a boy and heard about the 

 brain, I used to wonder in what part of the 

 head it was situated. I had seen the brain of 

 several domestic animals, such as the ox, the 

 calf, the swine, and the lamb ; and as these 



