. The horse in the stable and the field: his management in health and disease ... with an essay on the American trotting horse, and suggestions on the breeding and training of trotters. Horses. THE FOOT. 295 sole, which is a vascular membrane covering the floor of the pedal bone, and secreting the horny sole. In the centre of the posterior part of this is the sensible frog, which is of nearly the same shape-as the horny frog, and is still more liberally supplied with blood than the sensible sole. The arteries supplying these vascular structures with blood, and the veins taking it back, are of
. The horse in the stable and the field: his management in health and disease ... with an essay on the American trotting horse, and suggestions on the breeding and training of trotters. Horses. THE FOOT. 295 sole, which is a vascular membrane covering the floor of the pedal bone, and secreting the horny sole. In the centre of the posterior part of this is the sensible frog, which is of nearly the same shape-as the horny frog, and is still more liberally supplied with blood than the sensible sole. The arteries supplying these vascular structures with blood, and the veins taking it back, are of great importance, and doubly so because it is in these vessels that an operation is often performed in inflammation of the foot, calculated to afford relief by a local abstraction of blood. Commencing with the large metacarpal artery, which is the continuation of the radial below the knee, we find it de- scending by the side of the tendo-perforatus under the pos- terior-annular ligament. Imme- diately above the fetlock joint it splits into three branches; the middle one passing to the deep parts of the leg, and the two others, forming the plantar arte- ries, descend on each side the postero-lateral parts of the cor- onary substance. Here they divide into two leading portions, the anterior running round to meet its fellow of the opposite side, and giving off with it a complete fringe of vessels, which are displayed in the accompanying representation of an injected preparation of the foot. The branches uniting in front of the foot and encircling the coronary ligament are called the superior cor- onary circle. The posterior division of the plantar artery gives off, opposite the pastern joint, the artery of the frog, which descends obliquely inwards through the substance of the sensible frog, and divides into two branches within it, after which it supplies the whole of that substance with numerous vessels, and then goes on to the sole, to which it gives off a number of radiating br
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