No. 18. 



Numbers. This cut shows the form of foot to be 

 found on curby legs and spavhied legs; it is often found 

 to be the cause of knuckling on hind ankles, yes, and on 

 fore ones also. It will be seen that the foot is very long 

 and very deep in the front part and of proportion- 

 ately very little depth at the heels. The base of the 

 structure is wrong, the pedal, or coffin bone, is thrown 

 upward in front from the thickening of the horn below 

 and is canted towards the back; this throws the lower 

 pastern bone— that makes the first joint in the foot in 

 connection with the coffin bone — and the navicular 

 bone as well, out of position, with the result that all 

 of the succeeding joints are more or less "out of 

 whack" in their action. 



Number 18 is a cut of foot not dissimilar to num- 

 ber 8, but the angle of the joints is changed at the 

 union of the upper pastern and the main lower bone 

 of the leg so that the ankle is affected, the articula- 

 tion being comparatively correct above that point, 

 the hock joint is not as likely to be also involved, a 

 trouble more apt to result in the case of number 8. 

 Directions under number 4 will explain how to correct 

 the improper proportions of such feet so as to 

 eradicate and prevent the troubles they cause, and as 

 explained. 



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