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JANUARY, 1879. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
ATROPHY OF THE PLANTAR CUSHION. 
By G. Chenier. Translated by A. Liautard. M.D., V.S. 
( Continued from page 370.) 
II.—HI. 
CAUSES AND DIRECT CONSEQUENCES OF THE ATROPHY OF THE 
PLANTAR CUSHION. 
J’ai tonjours remarqu^ que les mar6- 
cliaux qui abattent beancoup les talons, 
les barres et la fonrobatte sout ceux 
entre les mains desqnels les chevaux 
deviennent le pins sonvcnt encastel^s. 
—L. Lafosse. 
I always observed that the horse 
shoers who pare the heels, the bars and 
the frog the most, are those in whose 
hands horses become the most hoof- 
bonnd. 
—L. Lafosse. 
The navicular bone transmits necessarily to the plantar cush¬ 
ion, through the terminal aponeurosis of the perforans, the entire 
sum of the pressions that it receives. During excessive motions 
of the extension of the fetlock joint, the os coronae presses also 
upon that same organ. 
It is consequently upon the fibro-elastic apparatus of the foot 
that at last is thrown by the navicular and the os coronae, a por- 
