A treatise on the horse : its diseases, lameness, and improvement : in which is laid down the proper method of shoeing the different kinds of feet ... / by William Osmer.

Date:
1830
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    were designed to keep it open, the heels and the coronary-ring become contracted more than they were before, by which means those cartilages of the foot-bones I have just described, are more compressed or contracted together. All the mem- branes and tendinous expansions of the foot, also, are compressed and inflamed, and the cartilaginous ends of the nut-bone, together with the ligaments, are squeezed together as in a vice. Therefore, is it well worth observation, that whenever the heels of a horse are deep or narrow, stricture ensues around the coronary-ring, and such feet fall more or less lame, after some use, and that from no other cause than the compression above described. [The accuracy of the foregoing representation may readily be put to the test, and the industrious inquirer re- tire more satisfied with his labours, by his examining the internal structure of the foot upon dissection with his own hands, as directed in “ Hinds’s Veterinary Surgery,” page 443. But as few persons set about such a job, with full leisure and sufficient inclina- tion for the performance, in plate 2 I subjoined a view of the bones just described, with their carti- lages marked ; and the back sinews, also, or flexor tendons, by which the foot is lifted up, or suffered to fall on the ground, the which were spoken of above, at pages 8 and 10, notes. The tread.—But the modern artists, not con- tent with ruining and destroying the work of Pro- vidence, by the means just described, seem resolved that all their operations shall be of a piece, and in