. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. in some putrid diseases. It exists indifferent quantities, and under various modifications of density throughout the body, and is a very uni-versal medium of connection in the form of ligament. 63tH. Panniculus carnosus. (18+8.) The fleshy pannicle was kindly given to quadrupeds in lieu of hands,to enable them to corrugate or pucker the skin, and th
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. in some putrid diseases. It exists indifferent quantities, and under various modifications of density throughout the body, and is a very uni-versal medium of connection in the form of ligament. 63tH. Panniculus carnosus. (18+8.) The fleshy pannicle was kindly given to quadrupeds in lieu of hands,to enable them to corrugate or pucker the skin, and thus to shake off dust and insects. It is a thin mus-cular expansion peculiar to brutes, but not to all; the swine family being denied it. By its attachmentsit can operate variously, as we see by the uses the horse makes of it. It is very vascular and sensible, also,from the numerous nerves which enter it. Subsect. 6. The Head generally. 6365. The parts of the head are external and internal; some of these have been touched on, as the , &c.: such as have not will follow in the order of their magnitude or situation. 6366. The brain of the horse (fig. 831. «, b, c), contained within the hollow of the skull, is so similar tJ 331. that of man, that to describe the one is to portray the other. Like the human, V^^^tinua ionbrum {a\ cerebellum (ft), and medulla oblongata (e). The medulla is «jftect contuiu { fof the brain in the form of a medullary cord, called the pith or spinal marrow (*V°?^ls^7^nd thethe skull through the occipital foramen. The brain appears to be the organ ot conscaousnesi, ancinerves which arise out of the medullary cord are the messengers by which sensation and %olitiontributed to the various parts of the body. Subsect. 7. The Ear. 6367. The ears of the horse are composed of inner and outer parts Ttatattg»g££™&Tefrom those of the human, but the outer are adapted to his situation and JJ^f™^ The skincomposed of the skin, the outer hair,
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