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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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the hock, ami are commonlyspoken of as the ham-strings.The ossific base of this reoion isformed by two bones—the tibiaand the fihtila. The latter isa small slender bone placed onthe outer side of the former,which is of considerable dimen-sions and power. The Hock—Tarsus.—Thehock intervenes between the legand the canon bone. It ismore or less flat on the outerside, convex on the inner sur-face, nariow behind, and broadand somewhat flat in front.This region comprises six smallbones, which are united by shortstrong ligaments, and supportedby the metacarpal bones. Above, they articulate with the tibia, or leg-bone,and with it form a hinge-joint of considerable extent by which the chiefmovements of the hock are effected. Above and behind, the hock forms anacute angle with the tendo Achilles, termed the. jwint of the hock (fig. 1). The regions below the hock are the canon, the fetlock, pastern, coronet,foot, and corresponding parts already described in dealing with the foreextremity.
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Fig. 15.—Bones of Left Hind Leg , Hip Bone or Pelvis. B, Thigh Bone or Femur, c, Knee-cap or Patella. D, Fibula. E, Tibia. G, Tarsal or Hock Bones. CONFORMATION AND ITS DEFECTS Section IICOXFORMATIOX A:ND ITS DEFECTS There are few Englishmen who possess, or have possessed, a horse, whodo not aspire to know something about conformation and its mechanicalrelations to jjace, action, and power, although few would claim to havethe most elementary acquaintance with those divisions of science on whichan exact knowledge of the subject depends. Anatomy, physiology,mechanics, and physics form but a small part of the intellectual equip-ment of the average judge, and yet it is doubtful if the 2>i<nd possessor•of these higher branches of learning would excel in precision of judgmenthis less gifted confrere. Dealers and Breeders, and those who adjudicate at our horse exhibitions,have little more than the empirical faculty to guide them, yet they areamong the most expert in the world—rec

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