CHAPTER IX. 



Principal Muscles of the Limbs, etc. 



We do not consider It necessary for the general 

 reader to be acquainted with the entire muscles of 

 the horse, although a knowledge of such as are more 

 immediately called into active operation will aid him 

 in discovering the seat of sprains and bruises, and 

 to administer for their relief, in the absence of a 

 regular practitioner. 



MUSCLES OF THE OUTSIDE OF THE 

 SHOULDER. 



PLATE VI, Fig. i. 



a. A portion of the sterno-maxillaris ^ or muscle which is 

 common to, and connected with, the lower jaw, as well 

 as the fore part of the chest. This is one of the muscles 

 employed in lowering the head. It lies immediately 

 under the skin, and arises from the cartilage projecting 

 from, or constituting the breast-bone, Plate n, fig. 2. It 

 then traverses the neck in an upward direction, and is 

 neither of great dimensions nor strength. About three- 

 fourths of its length upwards, it changes to a flat tendon, 

 and is exhibited, Plate iii, fig. i, w, above which it in- 

 sinuates itself between the parotid and submaxillary 

 glands, that it may be inserted into the angle of the 

 lower jaw. It is exerted in bending the head towards 

 the chest. 

 h^ i. Is a muscle which is the raiser of the shoulder, and takes 

 its rise from the nipple-shaped process of the temporal 



