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cartilages ; g the bottom of the coffin-bone, //, the 

 toe. 



Fig. S. is & front view of the same, but with all 

 the integuments removed ; aa the sesamoids ; b 

 the large pastern ; c the small pastern, anciently 

 termed the coronary bone ; the coronet circling its 

 smaller part (at c). At d is the coffin-bone, but 

 represented rather wider than ordinary. 



CHAPTER II. 



Disorders of the Leg. 



Introductory Observations. — All those derange- 

 ments of the limbs which we come next to con- 

 sider, are divided, for the reader's more ready com- 

 prehension, into — 1st, those of the leg, and 2d, 

 diseases of the foot ; for it does not always happen 

 that affections of the leg alone can be properly de- 

 nominated diseases, whilst those of the foot are in- 

 variably so. We before observed, that both, or 

 either, may be occasioned by accident, derived from 

 ancestry, or be the fault of misconstruction and 

 consequent misapplication of the individual's powers. 

 They may be also considered as, 1st, those of the 

 bones, 2d, of the ligaments, tendons, and muscles. 

 But we will not so classify the several diseases, 

 since each will appear under the respective heads 

 of information ; besides which (as will be seen fur- 

 ther down), whenever the bones suffer derangement, 

 original or acquired, the integuments follow the 



