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OPEEATIONS ON THE FOOT. 



Fig. 479.— Plantar Nerves in Digital Region. 



p.— Plantar nerve. A.— Origin of the digital nerves. B B.— CartUaginous branch. 

 C C— Cutaneous branch. D —Digital artery. G.— Transverse branches bacli of the fet- 

 lock joint. L— Nerve of the plantar cushion. L.— Lateral band of the plantar cushion, 

 v.— Digital vein. 



togenous apparatus, forming a continuation of the skin, whicli 

 surrounds the parts of the foot like a stocking, and upon which 

 the foot rests, as a shoe on the human foot. In this apparatus are 

 found : 1st, the coronary band, which forms a rounded projection 

 at the separation of the skin and hoof, and which serves as a 

 matrix to the periople and the wall ; at its surface are seen numer- 

 ous yUlosities or papOlse ; 2d, the podophyllous or laminated tissue 

 which is spread upon the anterior face of the third phalanx, and 

 is remarkable by the sheet of parallel laminse which it presents at 

 its surface, separated by deep furrows ia which are received the 

 analogous laminse of the internal face of the wall (Figure 481) ; 



