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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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hat the excess in length, scarcelyamounting to 1, 2, 4, or 5 centimetres, is the exception, the equality orexcess in height permitting variations of the same value being the rule.In the heavier breeds of horses excess of length over height is both morefrequent and considerable than in the lighter varieties, but in the mostapproved specimens of the former the disparity is least and less frequentlyin evidence. THE HEAD AS A UNIT OF MEASUREMENT Ever since the days of Bourgelat the study of proportions in respect tothe various regions of the horse has been more or less vigorously pursued. 100 CONFORMATION AND ITS DEFECTS especially by French liippotomists, and it is to the founder of veterinaryschools we owe the first serious attempt to establish the relation of thedimension which should exist between the parts of the body , or, in otherwords, a law of proportion. As a result of numerous measurements, Bourgelatselected the head as a basis of proportion for all other parts, and the more ni
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Fig. 73.—Proportions of the Horse in ProfileFrom Gouhaux and Barrier. (By permission of Messrs. Lippincott) recent researches of the distinguished savant Colonel Duhousset led himalso to adopt this region as a unit of measure. The results of his observations are recorded by Goubaux and Barrier,from whose able work on the Exterior of the Horse we extract the follow-ing list of proportions:— The length of the head almost exactly equals the distance— 1st. From the Ixick to the abdomen, N o, fig. 73 (thickness of the body). ■2nd. From the top of the withers to the point of the arm, H E (shoulder). 3rd. From the superior fold of the stifle-joint to the point of the hock, j J. 4th. From the point of the hock to the ground, J K. .5th. From the dorsal angle of the scapula to the point of the haunch, d D. 6th. From the xiphoid region to the fetlock-joint M I; above this latter in large horsesand race-horses, below it in small horses, and in tliose of medium size. 7th. From the superior

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