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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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larger surface of attachment it wouldafford those muscles that assist infixing the front part of the bodyin the act of pulling. The size of tlie head may deviatein proportion either in the directionof excess or deficiency. When thedimensions of length, width, anddepth are all in excess the head issaid to be large or coarse. Thiscondition results more especially from an undue development of the bony framework. It may not, however, bealtogether thus caused, but may, in some measure, be due to an exceptionalthickness of the skin and superabundance of connective tissue interveningbetween it and the underlying bones. Li the latter case the head hasa heavy look, rounded and fleshy in appearance, and the bony lines andprominences, as well as the nerves and blood-vessels, so conspicuous inwell-bred horses, are altogether obscured. Animals of this class areusually low-bred, soft, and wanting in endurance. In point of size thehead should accurately fit the body, or if it departs at all from the
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Fig. -27.—Fleshy Head 38 CONFOEMATION AND ITS DEFECTS standard of proi^ortion in its osseous parts, better a trifle too large thantoo small. A small head in relation to other parts means not only asacrifice of symmetry, but maybe also of power and intelligence. FORM OF THE HEAD The head of the horse presents great variety of form. In order toindicate the defects of conformation of this part it will be necessary in the first jjlace to convey some idea as tothose characters which combine to developthe highest standard of beauty and physio-logical excellence in the whole. In speakingof the Points of the Horse we havealready referred to the various regions intowhich the head is divided, and we now pro-jjose to examine them as to their magnitude,formation, and reciprocal relations. The aspects from which the head willrequire to be examined are: (l) the anterioror front view; (2) the lateral or side view;(3) the posterior or back view; and (4)the view of the upper and lower extremitiesres

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