SUPERFICIAL EXAMINATION ii 



peroneus muscle. This is the extensor brevis, and, Hke the peroneal 

 tendon, this muscle also crosses the large metatarsal artery. 



By tracing the tendons of the extensor pedis and peroneus, and the 

 large metatarsal artery, upwards from the metatarsal region, it will be 

 found that they become suddenly lost to the touch at the upper extremity 

 of the large metatarsal bone, and further manipulation will reveal the 

 presence of a transverse subcutaneous thickening. This is the most 

 inferior of the three annular bands which are found at the hock, and 

 under it the structures named, together with the extensor brevis 

 muscle, pass. 



The subtarsal or check ligament is not so easily felt as the 

 corresponding structure in the fore limb. 



In the inferior two-thirds of the metatarsal region only one tendon 

 is felt on the anterior aspect of the limb, namely, that of the extensor 

 pedis muscle. In the fore limb two tendons are present, for, in addition 

 to the tendon of the extensor pedis, there is the tendon of the extensor 

 suffraginis running to its insertion on the second phalanx. 



