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SCIENTIFIC HOKSESHOEING. 



A, Lower border of the lateral 

 cartilage of the coffin-bone (the 

 part corresponding to this on the 

 other side being detached for 

 this illustration.) 



B, The proper tissue, or vil- 

 lous tunic of the reticulum, 

 which is correlated to the upper 

 surface of the velvety tissue, 

 and answers to the periosteum 

 on the coffin-bone, which it en- 

 velopes like a villous sheath. 



C, The periphery of the re- 

 ticular tissue, conspicuous for 

 the divisions of arteries and ves- 

 sels which it sustains and which 

 prevail so largely throughout 



Fig. 13. the plantar reticulum or kera- the whole extent of the plantar 



TOGENOUS MEMBRANE COVERING THE LOWER FACE g^yface 

 OF THE COFFIN-BONE, AND SUSTAINING IN ITS 

 MESHES THE VEINS OF THE SOLAR PLEXUS. 



The venous apparatus of the digital region is remarkable 

 for the number, distribution and interlaced disposition of the 

 vessels composing it. They are extended over and molded 

 on the two last phalanges of the foot, discharging themselves 

 by numerous descending and ascending branches, converging in 

 Hexiform nets and arches, and communicating with each other, 

 or traversing every element, by an intricate system of arte- 

 rioles or venules, analogous to the capillary system. 



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