THE FOOT. 941 



Rub the belly well, and apply cloths wrung out of boiling 

 water diligently to it. Give copious injections of soap and 

 water ; or a mild infusion of tobacco or tobacco-smoke. If no 

 relief is given in one or two hours, give at intervals of an hour, 

 two drachms carbonate of ammonia, ounce ginger (powdered), 

 in gruel. 



Advantage will sometimes be found from giving copious 

 drenches of fluids to liquify the contents of the stomach, and 

 assist in removing it. 



THE FOOT. PRICKING ix SHOEING, STEPPING ox 

 NAILS GLASS, ETC. 



The foot is made up of the coffin-bone, (os pedis,) the lower 

 end of the small pas- 

 tern-bone ; ( oscoro- 

 nse,) and the navi- 

 cular-bone (os navi- 

 culare,) with the ten- 

 don of the flexor 

 pedis, which passes 

 over the navicular- 

 bone, and is inserted 

 in the sole of the 

 coffin-bone, a variety FlG * 805 The horse as he usuall >' rests the foot 



. . , . * when lame. 



of illustrations o f 



which I give. The surface of the coffin-bone is covered by lami- 

 nae or thin plates, running from above downwards, fitting into 

 corresponding plates on the inner surface of the hoof. The sole is 

 also covered by a sensitive structure which is villous, that is, 

 presenting elevations and depressions, which fit into reciprocal 

 horny villae on the sole of the hoof. At the back part of the sole 

 we have the sensitive or fatty frog, covered in a similar man- 

 ner by the horny frog. These, with the coronary ligament (which 

 occupies the groove in the upper margin of the wall of the hoof, 

 and from which the hoof grows), and the coronary frog-band, 

 blood-vessels, nerves, and lymphatics, constitute the foot of the 

 horse. (To make this more plain, I include drawings of differ- 

 ent views of the hoof ; reference can also be made to illustrations 

 in Shoeing.) 



