(HAT. I.] BONES AND INTEGUMENTS OF LEGS. 45o 



of .-training it: he who could talk seriously of Ms 

 • vol discoveries, and thirty-two diseases of the bot- 

 tom of the loot," was yet as correct, in all the essen- 

 tial points, as many of our modern discoverers and 

 patentees. 



The student who would push his inquiries far- 

 ther will next turn his attention to the muscles, 

 ligaments, and tendons, that guide the foot ; that 

 lift it up, and permit it again to meet the ground ; 

 that it may perform these offices firmly and effec- 

 tively, or being relaxed, diseased, or ill-formed, 

 they and their functions agree not with the well- 

 being of the foot. Probably he will find it conve- 

 nient to lay open this part of the arcana of progres- 

 sion by the horse's leg (the lower part of it) previous 

 to severing the foot itself, sesing that the subject 

 will then be quite fresh, and that one part may. 

 intelligibly illustrate the other. This is more par- 

 ticularly the case with the flex or tendon, or back 

 sinew, which he will ascertain is of great length, 

 descending all the way from the hock, or back of 

 the knee, behind both pastern bones, underneath 

 the shuttle-bone, and is fastened to the bottom of 

 the cotlin-bone. 



With the following description before him, he 

 will study the figures 1 and 2 of plate 2 ; and after 

 removing the remainder of the integuments, and 

 cleansing the bones, he will then perceive the arti- 

 culations of these, the manner of their working in 

 tad upon each other: and as he proceeds to repeat 

 the investigation, he will note the difference that 



