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the 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. IV. 
FEBRUARY, 1831. 
No. 38. 
ANATOMY OF THE HORSE. 
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[Continued from vol. iii, p. 665.] 
MUSCLES OF THE HIND EXTREMITIES. 
THE muse] es of the hind extremity are invested and closely 
compacted together by a subcutaneous covering, in part ten¬ 
dinous and in part cellular in structure (according to the dif¬ 
ferent structures in the vicinity from which we find it to be 
derived), to which we may give the name (analogically) ol 
faschia lata. In front of the haunch it is derived from the 
panniculus and crural arch, and is both fibrous and cellular m 
composition; on the outer side of the haunch it is continued 
from the tensor vaginae, a muscle that may be said to belong 
or have an exclusive relation to it; on the inner side, it is con¬ 
tinuous with the faschia superficialis abdominis, faschia scroti 
et pubis, and is entirely cellular in structure; and posteriorly, 
it is connected with the faschia lumborum. The principal 
fixed points of attachment of this faschia are, the anterior spine 
of the ileum, the pubes, the coccyx, the trochanter minor ex- 
ternus, and the patella. Inferiorly, it spreads upon the muscles 
of the leg, giving’ them a compact investment, which portion of 
it may be denominated the crural or tibial faschia: it derives 
various fibrous additions from the tendons of the gracilis, sar- 
torius, semitendinosus, triceps, &c., and finally vanishes in ex¬ 
pansion over the hock. The external surface of the faschia is 
adherent to the skin, through the intervention of a delicate 
cellular tissue; there being included between them, besides 
more or less adipose matter, the subcutaneous bloodvessels, 
nerves, and lymphatics. Its internal surface is applied to the 
muscles themselves, and between several of them it sends down 
processes which take root in the bone. From the faschia itself 
in some places the muscular fibres appear to arise. 
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