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Plate No. 5. 



THE LEG FROM THE SHANK BONE. 



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■ a, the shank bone ; b, the superior, or large pastern bone ; c, the inferior, or lesser 

 pastern ; d, the coffin, or foot bone ; e, the navicular, or nut bone ; f, the sessamoid 

 bone ; ff, the inner, or elastic frog ; h, the suspensary ligament, inserted into the 

 sessamoid bones ; i, the large flexor .tendon of the leg ; j, a ligament uniting the 

 sessamoid to the pastern bones ; k, the short, inferior sessamoid ligament ; I, the 

 insertion of the flexor tendon into the small pastern ; m, the horny frog ; re, the in- 

 sertion of the flexor tendon into the coffin bone ; o, a ligament uniting the navicu- 

 lar to the coffin bone ; p, the crust, or wall, of the foot ; q, the sensitive lamina, 

 uniting the crust to the coffin bone ; r, the extensor tendon ; s, t, the union of the 

 upper head of the long pastern bone, and the inferior head of the shank or leg 

 bone, forming the fetlock joint. 



