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ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. 
Anatomy of the Hen 
Explanation. -4 — The head, length 2 3-4 inches. B — The neck, length 5 1-2 
inches. C The back or spine. D — The hips or hip bones, (the back and hips 
comprise from the shoulder to the tail,) 
length 5 9 10 inches. E — Rump or 
Ooecygis, length 1 1-2 inches. F— Shout, 
der-blade or shoulder. 0 — Collar bone 
or merry thought. H— Chest or thorax, 
composed of the sides and breast bone 
(bone of the throat), it contains the heart, 
liver, etc. J— The breast bone, length 
a little over 3 1-2 inches. J"— -The wing 
bones, as will be seen, are composed of the 
humerus or shoulder-bone of the wing, 
length 3 1-7 inches ; also the radius and 
the cubitus, the forearm or pinion, length 
2 8-4 inches; the tip of the wing, or 
that which takes the place of the hand 
. and fingers, length 2 1-3 inches. K— 
The leg, composed of d — (Fig. 2.) the 
thigh bone, 3 1-7 inches; e — the shinbone, length 4 1-3 
inches ; /—the bone of the foot, the tarsus, length 3 1-7 
inches ; g — the claws, that of the middle, length 2 1-3 in- 
ches ; the two to the right and left, length 1 6-10 inches ; 
that of the back, length 8-10 inches ; h — the patella oi 
knee ; i — the os calcis or heel. 
ANATOMY OF TUB HEN. (Fig. 1). 
The engraving (Fig. 1.) represents the skeleton of 
an ordinary hen of an average size, and in tho pro- 
portions to be generally met with. The only impor- 
tant muscles are those which compose the flesh, from 
F . 2 which are formed the breast, the thigh, tho leg and 
the wings. All the others are slender and only furnish 
a little for table use. ^ 
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People often confound the thigh, the leg, the foot and toes of the hen, - 
and so it is with nearly alj animals. One expects to see her walk on the 
foot, though she walks like them on the toes. It is evident that the 
tarsus of the hen is the foot she would use on the ground if she walked 
like man ; the end opposite the toes is the heel. Some fowls have five or 
six toes but they do not all rest on the ground always. 
Apoplexy— Its Cause. 
Over-feeding and over-stimulating of fowls— seldom occurring on the 
farm— and generally known by finding the subject dead, often in the 
