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 . , reached to the navicular bone and thejoint, the latter injury proving fatal to life. Fig. 719 shows the state of the loAvcr surface of the coffin-bone; Fig. Fig. 720. PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF FEET. 816 the convex form of the plantar surface of that bone had, a
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 . , reached to the navicular bone and thejoint, the latter injury proving fatal to life. Fig. 719 shows the state of the loAvcr surface of the coffin-bone; Fig. Fig. 720. PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF FEET. 816 the convex form of the plantar surface of that bone had, as is alwaysthe case, its counterpart in the form of the hoof, the sole of whichAvas pawmace—after a French expression,—literally, apple-shaped,or round instead of concave and arched. But the t3q:)ical characterof those coffin-bones, as represented by the sing-le specimen, is thatof both being fractured in a transverse direction across the bottomof the bone, at an inch from the point. Fig. 720 shows the foot, drawn as it was placed upon a table,and will help in thisdescription the com-prehension of the stateof the case. The pointof the bone is turnedup. The bone, whichhadbecome shallow andweak, at length, underthe weight and exer-tion of the animal, gaveway at the part indi-cated, i. e., it fractured,but was held togetherby the net-work of fi-bious texture whichlaces and invests thebone. The lesion maybe regarded as a partialfracture, associatedwith a bending upwardof the loosen
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