The exterior of the horse . ous, rather in so faras it causes a continual tension of the posterior ligamentousapparatus of the carpus and the check tendon of theperforans, a tension which tells likewise upon the lateralligaments and becomes further increased at every instantof contact with the ground, Avhen the animal is moving at great excessive tractions, injuring the articular ligaments, will eventu-ally bring about the formation of osseous deposits at the points oftheir insertion upon the bones, or else a permanent induration of thecheck tendon and the suspensory ligament of th
The exterior of the horse . ous, rather in so faras it causes a continual tension of the posterior ligamentousapparatus of the carpus and the check tendon of theperforans, a tension which tells likewise upon the lateralligaments and becomes further increased at every instantof contact with the ground, Avhen the animal is moving at great excessive tractions, injuring the articular ligaments, will eventu-ally bring about the formation of osseous deposits at the points oftheir insertion upon the bones, or else a permanent induration of thecheck tendon and the suspensory ligament of the fetlock. Considerations of a similar nature are applicable to a knee whichdeviates to the inner side of the vertical axis, and which is styledox-knee, from its analogy to that of the animal whose name it bears(Fig. 70). Very convex upon its internal face and concave externally, Fig. 69. 1 H. Bouley, Nouveau Dictiomiaire pratique de médecine, de chirurgie et dhygiène vétéri-naires, t. viii. p. 201. ANTERIOR MEMBER. 233. Fig. 70. it is no longer compatible here witli a uniform distribution of the body-weight upon the metacarpal region, because the articular surfaces in thehorses carpus have a slant different from that ofthe carpal bones in the ox. The inward deviationhas a tendency to increase in the state of rest andat the time of contact with the ground during loco-motion ; the outer half of the bones is overloaded,while the internal lateral ligament is stretched toits utmost. Hence, for this reason, first and fore-most, do we look upon this anatomical conforma-tion as a vice of tiie greatest importance in car-riage- or in saddle-horses, the latter in particular. Moreover, during the act of flexion, it exag-gerates the movement of abduction of the meta-carpus, which, on the contrary, under ordinarynormal conditions, is always very slight. Atevery step the animal throws the canon outside ofthe vertical axis, wastes a certain amount of timein brino-ino; it back to its norma
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