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Title: The Horse : its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London : Gresham
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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din 1693. Sir William Flower in his work on the horse remarks on theartificial character of the mode of division, but adds that some portion ofthe system has survived, especially the grouji Ungulata, which has beenresuscitated of late years and used as a convenient designation for thegroup of quadrupeds that are distinctively hoofed. The Tertiary is the third of the great life-periods known to geologists, being followed by the Post-tertiaryor Quaternary, to which present-day life belongs. 476 THE HOESES POSITIOX IN THE ANIMAL WORLD Ungulate mammals are described by Sir W. Flower as animals whichare eminently qualified for a life on land, and in the main for a vegetablediet. Their molar teeth have broad crowns with tuberculated or ridgedgrinding surfaces, and they have a perfect set of milk teeth, which arechanged for permanent ones as the animals advance towards maturity.A very important point in their anatomy is the absence of collar-bones deles). Their toes are ^—1 r——1 r—~^
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