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IHB HOOB. 



hoof from which the internal strueturea have been separated. 

 In examiaiag it, the reader is supposed to look iato the cayity 

 of the organ. 



Fig. 8. 

 Tiew of the Hoof as it appears when separated from its internai 



aaa The Homy Crust. 



b The Coronary Concavity stud- 

 ded with minute pores, which are 

 the commencement of the Horn 

 Tubes, of which the hoof is en- 

 tirely composed. 



atta<;h7nents. 



c The Homy Plates, or Homy 

 Laminae of the hoof. 

 dd The Bars of the foot. 

 ee The Frog. 



gg The inner surface of the Sol&. 

 / The Cleft of the Frog. 



The Hoof, or what is frequently called the Orust, is too well 

 known to need any description of its form and position. If 

 it be attentively viewed by an observer standing in front of the 

 animal, he will perceive the organ to be more convex upon its 

 outer, than upon its inner side. " Once upon a time," when 

 Professor Coleman was supreme in the veterinary world, the 

 form of the foot was described as being that of half a circle. 

 All such descriptions, however, are superficial and erroneous ; for 

 if the organ was so formed, the animal during rapid motion 



