American Veterinary Review, 
APRIL, 1881. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES 
THE HORSE’S FOOT, 
By A. Zundel. 
ANATOMY. 
In our domestic animals we call the foot the extremity of the 
leg, and even only the extremity of the digit, for, considered in 
a zoological point of view, the foot extends from the carpus or 
tarsus to the last phalanx, inclusive. 
The foot of the horse forms an extremely important study 
on account of the numerous diseases to which that member is 
subject, and also of the value of the motor powers required from 
the horse; the old horsemen expressed this importance by the 
aphorism, “ no foot, no horse.” This truth finds daily its sad 
applications in the premature ruin of large numbers of horses ren¬ 
dered useless because of the defects in their feet. All the 
qualities of a horse are, indeed, considerably diminished and can 
even be entirely destroyed, by the bad conformation or acci¬ 
dental alterations of those essential organs. The study of the 
foot of the horse has been the object of many voluminous works, 
