THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XLIII. 
No. 509. 
MAY, 1870. 
Fourth Series. 
No. 185. 
Communications and Cases. 
OBSERVATIONS ON THE ANATOMY AND PHY- 
SIOLOGY OF THE HORSE’S FOOT. 
By George Fleming, M.R.C.V.S., Royal Engineers. 
(Continued from p. 287.) 
The anterior lateral ligament (fig. 9, l) is a short, thick, 
and wide band fixing the coronary to the pedal bone. It 
extends in an oblique manner for four fifths of its length 
along the side of the first-named bone, downwards to the 
depression (fig. 3, h ) existing between the base of the 
pyramidal eminence and the basilar process of the latter 
bone. The disposition of this ligament is somewhat remark- 
able. Many of its fibres extend beyond this depression to 
become fixed into the rugged surface through which the 
preplantar fissure is cut, and even extend to the inner side of 
the basilar process, towards the extremity of the navicular 
bone. The whole of its upper portion and the posterior half 
of its external face is covered by a large part of the inner 
face of the lateral cartilage (fig. 9, m ) ; and so intimately are 
the two blended into each other, that they appear as one in 
this situation. This fusion, due to the reciprocal inter- 
weaving of their fibres, is mftst marked towards the lower 
end of the ligament, where the posterior lateral ligament 
also confounds a number of its fibres in the general inter- 
mixture. In front, this anterior ligament has its margin 
closely united to the wide expansion of the extensor tendon 
of the foot by means of a flat band that passes across from 
the border of the cartilage to the tendon; it is also con- 
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