THE FOOT OF THE HORSE. 



Fig. 10. FRONT view of the foot region, 



SHOWING the arrangement OF THE INTER- 

 NAL, STRUCTURES. 



A, Front border of the lateral cartilage 

 of the coffin-bone (the corresponding piece 

 on the other side having been removed). 



B, Continuation of the reticulum, form- 

 ing the membraneous net, which holds in its 

 meshes the dependent vessels and laminal 

 tissues on the coffin-bone. 



C, Tendon of the front extensor of the 

 foot to its insertion in the coffin-bone. 



D, Terminal of the side extensor of the 

 foot. 



F, Inner and outer borders of the can- 

 non-bone. 



The external and collateral branches of the perpendiculai 

 artery and satellite veins and nerves are here shown by their an- 

 terior branches, which concur in forming the articular branch of 

 the phalanx, veiny plexus of the coronary crown circle, and net 

 of the reticular tissue, accompanied by the vasa motor nerves 

 belonging to the plantar system. 



