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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 
a. The sole of the foot. 
l\ The horny crust. 
c. The fleshy, or sensible lamw.qe, covering the coffin-bone, the 
horny crust being removed. 
d . The posterior lateral ligaments. 
e. The internal, or sensible frog. 
f. The branch of the nerve which supplies the fore part of the 
foot with feeling. 
g. The lower part of the vein before the artery. 
h. The same vein spreading over the pastern. 
*. The continuation of the nerve, s, and proceeding downward to 
supply the back portion of the foot with feeling. 
j. The extensors of the foot. 
k. The deeper flexor tendon continued downward, called the 
perforans , or perforating, and contained within the other. 
I, m. The division of the nerve on the fetlock-joint 
n. The tendinous band in which the flexors work. 
o. One of the flexor tendons. 
p. The deeper flexor tendon. 
q. The artery between the vein and nerve 
r. The vein before the artery. 
s. The nerve on the inside of the off leg, at the edge of the 
shank-bone, and behind the vein and artery 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF DEFECTS OF THE FORE-LEG. 
PLATE VI. Fig. 8. 
a. The situation of sand-crack in the foot of the fore-leg, as 
described at page 162. 
b. Representation of ring-bone when it first appears on the side 
of the pastern. See page 126. 
c. The situation of wind-gall. See page 120. 
d. The situation and appearance of the enlargement which accom¬ 
panies sprain of the back sinews. See page 117. 
e. The ordinary position in which splint occurs on the side of the 
shank-bone, which, however, does not produce lameness after 
its first formation, in consequence of its not interfering with 
the motion of the knee, nor does it injure the suspensory 
ligament See page 114. 
