THE EXTERNAL CONFORMATION OF THE HORSE. 
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amining the foot and finding it worn out, gone, as it were, might 
he not very appropriately exclaim “no foot no horse!” because 
he would have to abandon that animal for that journey at all 
events. When we come to consider what a number of diseases 
attack the foot, and what a large majority of the cases of lame¬ 
ness which we are daily brought in contact with have their 
origin in the foot, we can begin to realize why this part should 
be regarded as being of so much importance, and the study of 
pedology, or science of the foot, so interesting to those who are 
engaged in any way in the equine industry. 
The foot (Plate I, 35) may be regarded as that part em¬ 
braced by and including the hoof, the upper portion of which is 
called the coronet (Plate I, 36). We find, on comparing the 
front feet with the hind ones, that the former are usually if not 
always larger and flatter. This is no doubt owing to the fact 
Fig. 1. 
Plate No. 5. 
From an instantaneous photograph. Horse in rapid progression, the entire 
weight of the body being on one hind foot. 
