Prescriptions and instructions for treating the disease of the feet and legs of the horse . These plates represent the arteries in red, the veins in blue,and the nerves in white. Each of these systems maintains themost intimate relations with the others and meets in the extremi-ties in various forms of branches, collaterals, and ganglionic en-largements, remarkable alike for their large volume, intricatereticulation and extreme delicacy. The divisions shown in this plate are the digital and ungualarteries and veins of the plantar region, the veins of the coro-nary plexus, and the median circum
Prescriptions and instructions for treating the disease of the feet and legs of the horse . These plates represent the arteries in red, the veins in blue,and the nerves in white. Each of these systems maintains themost intimate relations with the others and meets in the extremi-ties in various forms of branches, collaterals, and ganglionic en-largements, remarkable alike for their large volume, intricatereticulation and extreme delicacy. The divisions shown in this plate are the digital and ungualarteries and veins of the plantar region, the veins of the coro-nary plexus, and the median circumflex artery of the foot to-gether with the digital branches of the median or cubic plantarnerve. 38 SCIENTIFIC B, Continuation of the fibrous reticulum,for the support of the vessels and leafy tissue onthe coffin-bone. C, Tendon of the front extensor of the footgoincr on to the coffin-bone. E, Rear margin of sesamoid , Periosteum of the cannon- and pastern-bones. Fig. 9. internal stkuctures of the region ofthe left fore foot, as seen from the inner side. The digital arteries and veins course almost immediately be-neath the skin. Descending from above the fetlock joint theyfollow the course of the flexor tendon and throw out innumerabletwigs and divergant ramifications to supply the surfaces, as wellas the deeper tissue substances of the foot. Those shown in thisplate are the perpendicular artery, circumflex coronary, arteryof the plantar cushion, preplantar ungual, venous network of thelamina! tissue, coronary plexus, and the deep cartilaginous layer—all flanked by the plantar nerve, which interlaces them withnumerous filaments. THE FOOT OF THE HORSE. 89 Fig. 10. FROXT view of the
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