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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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length, and the three following phalanges, constitute the true liandand foot. The horse, in fact, stands on those parts which in man formrespectively the tip of the middle finger and the point of the middle toe,both of which are capped with an investing hoof instead of a nail. The next illustration shows the exact relation between the finger of manand the reputed foot of the horse. How very close the anatomical relationis will be at once evident. The chief anatomical difference between the fingers of man and the footof the horse (which represents the end of the middle finger) consists in thepresence of—(l) a complete horny box or hoof, which covers the organ in 488 THE HORSES POSITION IN THE ANIMAL WORLD the horse; (2) the three floating bones or sesamoids, of which two areattached to the back of the lower end of the metacarpal bone and onenavicular behind the last phalanx, or rather between it and the articularend of the bone immediately above it, the coronal bone or short pastern.
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