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THE FORE LEGS. 



quently return when the horse is again hardly worked. A blister is a more effets 

 tual, but too often temporary remedy. Wind-galls will return with the renewal ol 

 work. Firing is still more certain, if the tumours are sufficiently large and annoy 

 ing to justify our having recourse to measures so severe ; for it will not only effec 

 the immediate absorption of the fluid, and the reduction of the swelling, but, by con- 

 tracting the skin, will act as a permanent bandage, and therefore prevent the reap- 

 pearance of the tumour. The iodine and mercurial ointments have occasionally 

 been used with advantage in the proportion of three parts of the former to two of the 

 latter. 



THE PASTERNS. 



4 The shank-bone. 

 6 The upper and larger pastern-bone. 

 c The sessamoid-bone. 

 d The lower or smaller pastern-bone. 

 e The navicular or shuttle- bone. 

 / The coffin-bone, or bone of the foot. 



g The suspensory ligament, inserted into the sessamoid-bone. . 

 h A continuation of the suspensory ligament, inserted into the smaller pastern-bone, 

 t The small inelastic ligament, tying down the sessamoid-bone to the larger pastern-bone. 

 k A long ligament reaching from the pastern-bone to the knee. 

 / The extensor tendon inserted into both the pasterns and the coffin-bor*. 

 m The tendon of the perforating flexor inserted into the coffin-bone, after having pasaed OV6J 

 he navicular bone. 



n The seat of the navicular joint lameness. 

 o The inner or sensible frog. 

 p The cleft of the horny frog. 



q A ligament uniting the navicular bone to the smaller pastern. 

 r A ligament uniting the navicular bone to the coffin-bone. 

 * The sensible sole, between the coffin-bone and the horny sole. 

 t The horny sole. 

 u The crust or wall of the foot. 

 v The sensible laminae to which the crust is attached, 

 w The coronary ring of the crust. 



r The covering of the coronary ligament from wbich the crust is necreted 

 Place of bleeding at the toe. 



