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THE FORE LEGS. 



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

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

 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 effect 

 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. 



a The shank-bone. 

 6 The upper and larger pastern-bone. 

 c The sessamoid-bone. 

 d The lower or smaller pastern-bone. 

 € The navicular or shuttle-bone. 

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



g The suspensory ligament, in?erted into the sessamoid-bone. 



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

 i 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. 

 I The extensor tendon inserted into both the pasterns and the coffm-bone. 

 m The tendon of the perforating flexor inserted into the coffm-bone, after having passed ovel 

 the 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 coffm-bone. 

 s 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 laminoe to which the crust is attached. 

 to The coronary rinn; of the crust. 



X The covering of tne coronary ligament from which the crust is secreted. 

 » Place of bleeding at the toe. 



