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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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STRAIGHT SHOULDER THE AKM 71 THE AR.AI The arm is intimately connected with the hiteral aspect of tlie chest,and, like the shoulder-blade with which it articulates above, is completelyinvested by muscles. The two regions being outwardly undistinguisli-able one from the other, some hippotomists have treated them togetheras jointly forming the shoulder, and large numbers of practical horse-men do not differentiate between them. The bony base of the upper arm is supplied by the humerus, a some-what massive bone whose superior extremity articulates with the scapulato form the shoulder-joint, from which it proceeds obliquely backward,and with the radius and ulna combines to form the elbow-joint. The range of movement of the upper arm and the forward swingof the entire limb will very much depend upon its length, which shouldbe as great as possible so long as it is not out of projjortion with theshoulder. Any discrejiancy in this respect gives rise to relatively short shouldermuscles, whose

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