The Horse : its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding, training and management . to the toe. Itsprominent surfiice is brokenby a depression which should be shallow, but which is too often anarrow, deep fissure. On each side of the frog is a space separating itfrom the bars. This space permits lateral yielding when weight is placedupon the frog. It must not be supposed that the frog is an extra thickmass of horn resting on a level sensitive foot. Its prominent parts andits depressions follow exactly a similar formation of the sensitive structureunder it, and the who
The Horse : its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding, training and management . to the toe. Itsprominent surfiice is brokenby a depression which should be shallow, but which is too often anarrow, deep fissure. On each side of the frog is a space separating itfrom the bars. This space permits lateral yielding when weight is placedupon the frog. It must not be supposed that the frog is an extra thickmass of horn resting on a level sensitive foot. Its prominent parts andits depressions follow exactly a similar formation of the sensitive structureunder it, and the whole should be left in its full strength. The form ofthis division of the hoof sua;s[ests its use, which is to form a catch whenthe foot comes to the ground, and so increase the security of structure of the frog is a tough elastic horn, and as the back of thefoot comes to the ground first during progression, the frog is well con-stituted to break concussion. The bars are the ridges of horn which run on each side of the frogforwards from the heels. They are formed by a turniug-in of the wall at. Fig. -The Wall of the Foot: Hoof showingInsensitive Laminae, &c. A, Peiipolic horn-band. B, Coronary groove, c, InsensitivelaminiB. D, Horny sole. E, Horny frog. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE FOOT 435
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