REVIEW. 
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Furnished with the work is an atlas of thirty-four plates, 
which M. Bouley has considered requisite for the due under- 
standing of its anatomical and physiological descriptions. This 
has unavoidably, and very unwillingly on the part of its author, 
enhanced the price of the work, and he the more especially 
regrets this, as it is written purposely for veterinary circulation. 
First Division — Anatomy. 
“ The region of the members of the horse to which, in 
ordinary language, we give the name of Foot, is, properly 
speaking, but the] extremity of the toe (or metatarsus), since 
the foot, considered in a zoological point of view, extends from 
the carpus or tarsus to the last of the phalanges. Usage, 
however, has established the application of this denomination 
to that part of the limb exclusively which treads the ground; 
and whatever objections might be urged against this, more in- 
convenience than advantage would result were we to refuse 
the adoption of it in our scientific descriptions. 
“ The foot of the horse is remarkable for an anatomical dis- 
position so exceptional that naturalists have selected it as a 
zoological prototype, characteristic of a family altogether dis- 
tinct, to which the horse belongs : — his toe is unique, his foot 
consequently undivided. Whence the names of monodactyles 
and solipedes, by which the individuals of this family are 
often designated. 
“ Such simplicity of anatomical arrangement in the foot of 
the horse has, however, not shut out richness and complexity 
of organization. On the contrary, formed as it is of a single toe, 
developed to a vast extent in comparison with the toes of 
other animals, the foot displays, on a magnified scale, all the 
constituent parts of such an organ, while it unveils, through 
the grandeur of its dimensions and the finish of its structure, 
the mysteries of an organization less easily discoverable in the 
other families of digital animals. 
“ The horse’s foot is composed of two orders of parts : — one 
INTERNAL, organized and sensible; the other External, 
formed of an organic horny matter, entirely destitute of the 
properties of life. 
A. The Internal Parts are : — 
1. The bones, in number three: — the coronet, the coffin, and 
navicular bones, which by their union form the articulation of 
the foot. 
2. Special ligaments, which maintain these bones in their 
relative places and positions. 
