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the flexor tendon and navicular bone; the former push- 
ing the latter, wedge-like, against and into the joint. 
Here I have enumerated the chief or main stays, and am 
not forgetting that there are others to each joint, even 
to the coffin joint; but all others are insignificant as 
- compared with the ones enumerated. 
Next, I wish to draw your attention to the phalanges 
as awhole. We find when the limb is 7¢g¢d@ and bearing 
more or less of the weight of the body, the phalanges 
are placed od/zguely to the long axis of the bones of the 
leg, from the fetlock to the elbow joint. 
That the long axis of the phalanges themselves is 
straight. | 
That the line (seen on taking a side view) formed by the 
upper margin of the hoof or ne of the coronary band, as 
we shall call it, is very nearly at a right angle with the 
long axis of the phalanges—thus : 
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Fic. 1. 
That the angle formed by the Zine of the coronary band 
with the hoof is of necessity the same whether the horse 
be lying, standing, or in motion. This angle, when the 
limb is bearing the horse’s weight (rigid), is just a trifle 
