The vegetarian armed at all points.

  • William Horsell
Date:
1859
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Credit: The vegetarian armed at all points. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    _ The incisors or cutting teeth of man, {i. Fig. 2.) are eight in number, large, broad, and compressed, with a flat Fig. 2. The Human Jaw g, molars; b, bicuspids ; c, cuspids; i, incisors. edge ; whilst those of the carnivorous animal are twelve in number, small and pointed, standing further apart, and comparatively unimportant. (Fig. 3.) In herbivorous ani- mals, as the cow, the horse, &c., they are broad as in man, but varying in form and number. The canine or eye teeth human, (c. Fig. 2), are supposed by some anatomists to in- dicate that man is partly carnivorous ; but the same evidence would prove that the camel is still more carnivo- rous than man, because these teeth are proportionately Fig. 3.
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