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 . rties of this corti-cal envelope andof the mechanicalarrangement o fthe different partsof which it is madeup ; and, thirdly,a highly devel-oped sensitiveness,the result of theexquisite organi-zation of its integ-umentary mem-brane. But, to make good the mjury -^^^ 374.—
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 . rties of this corti-cal envelope andof the mechanicalarrangement o fthe different partsof which it is madeup ; and, thirdly,a highly devel-oped sensitiveness,the result of theexquisite organi-zation of its integ-umentary mem-brane. But, to make good the mjury -^^^ 374.—Side view of the foot with the part of the frogmcessantly caused in previous cut removed, now in place, showing by wear on the ligaments, etc., under the lateral cartil- horny bed whichclothes it, the footshould possess the faculty of reproducing it in a manner so contin-uous that the activity of the reconstruction should be exactly pro-portioned to the rapidity of the destruction. This is, indeed, whatactually takes place ; the foot is the seat of a highly importantsecretion—the horny secretion. The nutritive functions, also, in the digital region are endowedwith great activity, indicated especially by the great developmentof its vascular apparatus, the remarkable disposition of which ismade known to us by age which has been from Manikin. 588 SHOEING. Such arc, in their entirety, the complex functions of wi-tch thefoot of the horse is the si;at. As an organ of support, the foot has an essential duty, sinceit is through it that the entire machine is put in connection with the ground,while the pointat which it isplaced is in factthe fulcrum ofthe levers—thelimbs-on whichall the locomo-tive agencieswork. As an organof elasticity, itsduty is no lessimportant whenit is consideredwhat enormousforces, the resultof the weight ofthe animal com-bined with itspowerful mus-cular contrac-tions, all bear on that apparatus, and that it is the means of neutralizi
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