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SCIENTIFIC HORSESHOEING. 



A, Pedal- or coffin-bone — 

 third phalanx terminating 

 the foot. 



B, Extremity of navicular 

 hone. 



C, Small or lower pastern 

 bone— second phalan.v. 



D, Large or upper pastern 

 bone — first phalanx. 



E, Pyramidal process on 

 coffin-bone, wliich gives in- 

 sertion to the tendon of the 

 front extensor of the foot, 

 and which braces the joint 

 by preventing the pastern 

 from .slipping too far forward. 



F, Ba.silar process of wing 

 to which the lateral cartilage 

 is attached. 



;. .SIDE VIEW OF THE PH.^LANGIAL SECTIONS G-, Irregular ridge above 



FOOT, SHOWING THE BONES OF THE DIGITAL the retrorsal process or pre- 



iNTHEiRNOKMAi.BELATioNSTOEACH OTHER, pjantar fissure, tlirough 



which passes the lateral 

 laminal and preplantar un- 

 gual arteries and their satel- 

 lite nerves. 



The lower face of this bone is arched, and into its crest is 

 fixed tlie insertion of the deep flexor of the foot. The articula- 

 tions of these bones with each other, and with the lower extrem- 

 ity of the cannon-bone, form the ankle and fetlock ioints. The 

 line through their central axis defines the natural incidence of 

 the weight in its descent from the body, and indicates that the 

 natural inclination of the coflSn-bone is in direct line with the 

 pasterns 



Fig. : 



OK THE 

 REGION 



