THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. V. JULY, 1832. No. 55. 
ANATOMY OF THE HORSE. 
[Concluded from page 320.] 
INTERNAL PARTS OF THE FOOT. 
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THE internal, sensitive, organic parts of the foot, comprise 
the bones, ligaments , tendons, coronary substance, cartilages, sen¬ 
sitive lamina, sensitive sole, and sensitive frog. 
THE BONES entering into the composition of the foot, are 
the coffin and navicular bones : to which maybe added (as form¬ 
ing part of the coffin-joint, and consequently having intimate re¬ 
lation to them), the coronet bone. Their descriptions will be 
found given at pages 57, 58, 59, and 60. 
THE LIGAMENTS have likewise been already described at 
page 75, in giving the particulars of the coffin-joint. 
THE TENDONS immediately connected with the foot are 
those of the extensor pedis and the flexor pedis perforans: the 
former being inserted into the posterior concavity of the coffin- 
bone ; the latter into its coronal process, as described at pages 
140 and 144. 
The Coronary Substance, 
A less inappropriate name for the part commonly called the 
coronary ligament*.' . 
To revert, for the sake of elucidation here, to former descrip¬ 
tion—after the hoof has been detached by a process of maceration 
or putrefaction, in a perfectly entire, uninjured condition, it pre¬ 
sents around its summit a circular groove, bounded in front by 
a soft whitish substance, having a thin edge, and being of a na¬ 
ture between horn and cuticle; and behind, by an attenuated 
margin, more horny in its character, whose thin edging is denti- 
* Averse as I am to changing or altering names, nothing less Ilian a 
palpable contradiction, in regard both to structure and function, would have 
induced me to do so in the present instance. 
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