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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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orses that have never been shod are often injured by beingallowed to run in yards or small soft pastures where the hoof is notnaturally worn down. Their feet become so overgrown and dispropor-tionate that the limbs are injured and joints twisted permanently. Evenfoals should be attended to by the ftirrier when their hoofs become over-grown. No paring is necessary. All that is wanted is the removal of theexcess of wall with a rasp. This necessary attention would frequentlymake all the difference between good feet and limbs and Ijad ones. Cartilage.—It is unnecessary to enter more into detail as to theanatomy of the foot. Within the sensitive layer just noticed are thebones, and attached to them the tendons which move the limb in pro-gression. There are two structures, however, which must be mentioned.The chief bone of the foot—the coffin-bone—which gives the general formto the hoof, does not extend throughout its whole interior. It forms the ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE FOOT 437
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Fig. 628.—Lateral Cartilages, kc, of the Foot A, Os pedis. B, Lateral cartilage, c. Peripole. D, Peri-polic band. E, Coronary cushion. F, Sensitive laniinse, orfleshy leaves. G, Section of skin. H, Fleshy frog. I, Hornyfrog. J, Horny sole. basis of the front and sides of the hoof, but towards the heels is replacedon each side by plates of gristle or cartilage (fig. 628). This elastic materialcan be felt at the inner and outer sides of the coronet through the skin ofthe living horse. When diseasedand converted into bone itforms the so-called side-bones,which sometimes cause lame-ness, and always destroy thenatural elasticity of the foot.These cartilages, replacing boneat the back parts of the foot,give resiliency to the hoof, andso prevent concussion. The Frog.—If we examinethe under surface of the foot,we .find another provisionagainst jar, for whilst the solerests upon a bony basis, thefrog does not (fig. 629). Thebody of the coffin-bone only extends backwards to about an inch pa

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