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Title: The Horse : its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London : Gresham
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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hey are in these and in otherrespects admirably constructed toexercise their power in the for-ward movement of the trunk. Themanner in which this is effectedwill be best understood by refer-ence to Plate XII, where it isseen that in commencing the fastgallop the first act of the horseis to bring the hind-limbs underthe body and raise the forehand.The former at this time are short-ened by the closing of the articu-lar angles. Gradually these areagain opened, and one after theother the legs are forcibly ex-tended; and as they become moreand more backwardly inclined,the body is forced foiward to apoint when the ground ceases tooffer further resistance, and theyleave it to take a fresh and moreforward j)osition in order that themovement may be repeated. Itwill be seen, therefore, that thegreater impulsive force which thehind-leg is capable of transmit-ting to the trunk is due to the column of bones of which it is made upbeing directly and firmly connected with the trunk through the medium
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Fig. 66.—Posterior View of Pelvis andHind Liralis of Horse A, Pelvis. B, Femur or thigh-bone, c, Tibia or lowerthigh-bone. D, Fibula. E, Astragalus. P, Calcaneus,forming point of hock. G, Cuboides. H, Large metatarsalor canon-bone. I, I, Small metatarsal or splint-bones.J, Sesamoid bones. K, Os suffraginis or large pastern.L, Os coronffi or small pastern. M, Navicular bone. N, Ospedis or Foot bone. LEG (SECOND THIGH) 85 of the hip-joint, a condition, as we have seen, which has no parallelin the fore-limb. Thigh.—The thigh is the uppermost of the free-moving segmentsof the hind extremity. Viewed from without, it embraces that portionof the quarter enclosed within the limits of the croup and haunch above,the flank in front, the buttock behind, and the stifle and leg below. Ithas for its ))ony base the femur or thigh-bone, one end of which uniteswith the pelvis to form the hip-joint, and the other articulates with thetibia and patella to form the stifle. The importance of the thigh i

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