THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
vol. v. APRIL, 1832. No. 52. 
ANATOMY OF THE HORSE. 
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OF THE NERVES. 
THE nerves are soft, white, fibrous chords, proceeding from 
the brain and spinal marrow to all parts of the body. 
Number .—From the brain issue ten pairs , denominated cere¬ 
bral nerves; from the spinal marrow, thirty-six , termed spinal: 
making, altogether, forty-six pairs. 
Magnitude. —In some animals (among which may be num¬ 
bered the horse) the nerves, taking them generally, are of larger 
size than they are in the human body; although the brain of 
the latter far preponderates in volume. According to Richerand, 
“ the spinal marrow and the nerves, in the different animals 
furnished with them, are larger in proportion to the brain, ac¬ 
cording as the animal is more distant from man in the scale of 
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