The exterior of the horse . rom above to below and frombefore to behind (Fig. 108). Its conicaldisposition, however, being always veryslight, is only very apparent when it isexamined from in front or in profile, it has more the formof a cylinder, as has been remarked byBracy-Clark > (Fig. 109). Concave below, cleft behind, and bordered superiorly by the skin of the coronet, the hoof is composed of three distinct pieces intimately united to one another. These pieces can be separated the one from the other by prolonged maceration or boiling; they are designated itnder the names
The exterior of the horse . rom above to below and frombefore to behind (Fig. 108). Its conicaldisposition, however, being always veryslight, is only very apparent when it isexamined from in front or in profile, it has more the formof a cylinder, as has been remarked byBracy-Clark > (Fig. 109). Concave below, cleft behind, and bordered superiorly by the skin of the coronet, the hoof is composed of three distinct pieces intimately united to one another. These pieces can be separated the one from the other by prolonged maceration or boiling; they are designated itnder the names xvall, sole, and frog. We must enter into a special study of each in order to understand the mechanism well. a. The Wall.—The wall or paries forms, as its name indicates, the circum-ference of the hoof, and includes all that portion of the horny case which is visi-ble when the foot rests upon the soil. It represents a large crescent of horn,curved on itself (Fig. 110), placed against the anterior face of the foot on which. Fig. 108.—Foot viewed in front. > Bracy-Clark, Recherches sur la construction du sabot du cheval. THE FOOT. 317 it is moulded, and folded from behind forward at its extremities,miuate in a point,converge towardseach other by en-circling the frog,and unite at thepoint of the lat-ter. The wall isdivided into sev-eral important re-gions bearing vari-ous names ( and 111). The toe, a, is The latter ter-
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