. Elements of hippology. Horses. ELEMENTS OF HIPPOLOGY. 93 a most careful scrutiny of the front faces of his knees should be made. It often happens that a horse falls and bruises his knee in a perfectly innocent way, but such happenings are rare. As a rule, the fall is due to some defect in the horse himself. The would-be purchaser is wise who rejects finally any horse with broken knees. The back tendons, leading from the trapezium to the pastern, when strained, are causes of lameness. This strain occurs more often in saddle-horses that are galloped when tired. It is noticeable by an enlargeme
. Elements of hippology. Horses. ELEMENTS OF HIPPOLOGY. 93 a most careful scrutiny of the front faces of his knees should be made. It often happens that a horse falls and bruises his knee in a perfectly innocent way, but such happenings are rare. As a rule, the fall is due to some defect in the horse himself. The would-be purchaser is wise who rejects finally any horse with broken knees. The back tendons, leading from the trapezium to the pastern, when strained, are causes of lameness. This strain occurs more often in saddle-horses that are galloped when tired. It is noticeable by an enlargement of the tendon, or its sheath, below the knee, usually nearer the knee than the pastern, and a tendency to keep the knees bent forward when at rest, to ease the strain on those ten- dons. A tendon is a dense, fibrous, inelastic tissue that connects a muscle with a bone. Its function is to transmit to the bone the energy developed by the contraction of the muscle. A ligament is also a dense, fibrous tissue, and serves to bind two bones, usually, to- gether. Tendons are usually Figure 63. of the shape of ropes, and do To illustrate the position of the splint- their work, while ligaments bone, A, with reference to the bones of the are 0f a variety of shapes, knee, the cannon-bone, B, and the tendons , of the foot. The ligament that binds the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Marshall, F. C. (Francis Cutler), 1867-; United States Military Academy. Dept. of Tactics. Kansas City : Hudson press
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