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Title: Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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By reference to cut 9 on page 64, the arrangement and shape of the several bones will be readily understood. A large, flat knee is essential in the horse, since it not only carries plenty of integument, but allows free play to this portion of the leg. Fig. 1 shows the knee flexed and Fig. 2 the knee at rest.
84 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR.
The true carpal bones are seven in number. Six of these are placed in two rows, each containing three bones in front of the joint, while the seventh, the pisiform, (Trapezium), is placed behind them, forming the point of insertion for some of the muscles of the arm. It also aids in protecting the tendons running down behind the leg.
Fig. 1. Fig. 2.
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CUT 9.—SHOWING BONES OF THE KNEE.
Bones of the Leg.—Between the knee and the fetlock are three bones, the shank (cannon) and two splint bones, as shown in cut 8, page 63, Fig. 1.D. These form the leg, the corresponding part in man being the metacarpus. The cannon bone articulates at its upper extremity with the lower row of the bones of the knee and below with the upper pastern of the fetlock joint. It has scarcely any muscle, those parts not covered by tendons, as well as the parts so covered being enveloped directly by the skin. The leg bone is nearly straight, rounded in front and flattened or slightly concave behind. The splint bones, slender bones attached to the cannon to strengthen it, diminish to a point before they reach

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