The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management . confirms this conclu-sion. In the dog the palmarand the plantar pads areunderneath the fore-feetand the hind-feet B, Two fatty cushionsform the bulk of eachpad, and the surface of theskin covering the cushionsis an extremely beautifulstructure, to which the useof the term hardened epi-dermic covering, althoughstrictly correct, certainlydoes very scant justice. Looking at the surfaceof any one of the padsunderneath the foot ofthe dog, when it is freedfrom the habitual coatingof d
The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management . confirms this conclu-sion. In the dog the palmarand the plantar pads areunderneath the fore-feetand the hind-feet B, Two fatty cushionsform the bulk of eachpad, and the surface of theskin covering the cushionsis an extremely beautifulstructure, to which the useof the term hardened epi-dermic covering, althoughstrictly correct, certainlydoes very scant justice. Looking at the surfaceof any one of the padsunderneath the foot ofthe dog, when it is freedfrom the habitual coatingof dirt, the olxserver willbe struck by its tessellatedor chequered series of columns orcones will be distinguished,with the points directed,in the natural positionof the foot, downwardsto the ground surface ofthe pad. The plantar pad of thefoot of man is composedof epidermic scales, forming a nearly smooth covering to the sensitiveand vascular skin. Among the horse tribe there are no developed palmar or plantar pads;the remains of these are indicated in c of fig. 664. If, however, the ergots. Fig. 664.—Plantar Surface of the Foot of—a, Man; b, Dog; c, Horse The small letters a, b, and c indicate the corresponding points of thethree. These points are in man at the centre of the heel «, the protu-berance at the joint of the third or middle toe h, and in the centre ofthe middle toe c. In the dog at the back of the point of the hock a,which does not come in contact with the ground owing to the positionof the limb, also on the centre pad b, and on the centre of the thirdtoe c. In the horse in the centre of the point of the hock «, on theergot b, and near the centre of the frog t: 504 THE HORSES POSITION IX THE ANIMAL WORLD arc to be accepted as the rudiments of tlie plantar pads in tlic primevalhorse, it must not be forgotten that they differ in structure from the padsof animals in which pads are essential organs of progression, as the ergotsare distinctly horny stru
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