The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . Fig. h c d 384.—Horizontal section of the junction of thewall with the sole of the hoof. and fatigued as the lever formed by these phalanges becomeslonger. B. The plantar cushion has duties indicated by its structureand position ; it fulfills the office of a buffer on w
The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . Fig. h c d 384.—Horizontal section of the junction of thewall with the sole of the hoof. and fatigued as the lever formed by these phalanges becomeslonger. B. The plantar cushion has duties indicated by its structureand position ; it fulfills the office of a buffer on which shocks maybe spent and extinguished. When subjected to .shocks or the a. Inner portionof the wall withthe lamiriK aris-ing hom it; lamina;;c. Horny lanihia;of average length;(?. C. Unusuallyshort lamina;; c .c. Lamiiiella onthe side 3 of thehorny lamin;c ; ( lamina;passing between g*.two horny ditto ;d. Vascular lanii-n a passing b e-t w e e n t h r eehorny lamina;;d. Lateral lami-nellae ; e. e. Arte-ries of vascularlaminte whichhave been -6 c- c d d Fig. 385.—Horizontal section of the wall, and horny andvascular laminae, to show the junction of the latterand the laminelle. pressure of weight, it flattens and extends, to resume its formwhen the pressure is removed ; but in its enlargement it presses onthe cartilages, which yield because of their flexibility and elasticity^and come back to their own shape immediately when the action ofthe plantar cushion ceases. 592 SHOEING. C. The natural hoof is not only flexible, as is affirmed byLafosse, but perfectly elastic, since it recoils on itself after havingbeen lightly opened behind. Open behind Ijy nature—evidentlywith intention, for nature does nothing in vain—when the plantarcushion comes to be compressed, and bears upon the lateral cartil-ages of the bones of the foot, these cartilages transmit the pressurereceived to the quarters and heels of the wall, which yield andopen slightly,
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