THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
vol. ii. JULY, 1829. No. 19 . 
ANATOMY OF THE HORSE. 
[Continued from page 165.] 
Section II. 
MUSCULAR SYSTEM. 
OF THE MUSCLES. 
THE fleshy parts of the body prove on dissection to be naturally 
divisible into numerous compact masses, assuming various forms 
and sizes, constituting so many distinct and separate muscles , 
whose number may be estimated at about 312. The majority of 
the muscles possess tendons or sinews, which are to be re¬ 
garded as component parts of (rather than appendages to) them. 
The symmetry of the entire body is preserved by each half pre¬ 
senting (as well as bones) muscles corresponding in every essen¬ 
tial particular; hence they are described as pairs f of which we 
reckon 151: the remaining ten being single muscles*. The fol¬ 
lowing Table exhibits the classification of the muscles into regions , 
indicative of their situation and relative connexion: it also dis¬ 
plays the respective nomenclatures of the English and French 
veterinary schools; the former, met with in the works of Snape, 
Stubbs, and Blaine, will be found to have been borrowed from 
human anatomy; the latter arose with Chaussier, and has been 
introduced very happily into veterinary anatomy by Girard. 
I—MUSCLES COMMON TO THE HEAD AND TRUNK. 
English names. 
Membrana Carnosa, 
vel Panniculus Carnosus 
French names . 
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Musculus Subcutancus 
No. 1. 
* This computation does not include the Muscles of the Internal Ear. 
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