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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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ise but slight influence as comparedwith the hind - limbs. Their greatest efforts in this connection aredeveloped in heavy draught (fig. 51), when the body strongly in-clined forward gives the foredegs an oblique direction backward, which permits them to jjushagainst the collar towhich the shouldersare energetically ap-plied. It is by theextension or openingout of all the articu-lar angles previouslysemi-flexed that thefore-limbs are able toaccomplish this result.When they are di-rected obliquely andin an inverse direc-tion, as is seen some-times at the begin-ning of the effort of traction, the force wdiich they exercise upon the trunk,and therefore against the collar, is at its minimum. Traction forward canbe favourably executed only when the foot directed backward is fixedagainst the roughness of the ground. This is observed in the draught-horse as he moves his load; when the soil, the point of suj^port, givesway, the feet suddenly glide backward. (Goubaux and Barrier.) THE SHOULDER
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Copyright 1887 by Eadweard Muybridge. From Animals in Motion (Cliapman & Hall) Fig. 51. —Oblique Position of the Limbs in drawing a Load Of all the parts of a horse none perhaps come in for so much criticismas the shoulder, and having regard to the influence it is capa1))e ofexercising over the various phases of locomotion, and in safeguardingthe integrity of the limbs with wdiich it is connected, no wonder canbe entertained that it should be made so much a matter of concern tothe breeder, the dealer, and the user of horses. In this, as in most other rea;ions, no single design can be made tomeet all purposes, and between the two extremes of conformation whichlend themselves respectively to speed and power some variation will neces-sarily be found to exist. The measure of mechanical perfection either inregard to the one requirement or the other being incapaltle of accomplish-ment, it must suffice to indicate the more salient features identified with each. THE SHOULDER 69 In estim

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