Veterinary surgery / [John Hinds].

  • Badcock, John, active 1816-1830
Date:
1829
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Veterinary surgery / [John Hinds]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAP. I.] OF BISECTING THE PERFECT FOOT. 44‘3 groom, or shoeing-smith, to obtain a fresh hoof of a horse which has died in comparative health, and having softened it in warm water, proceed to make a section thereof, in the same manner as is here done. FIG. I.—SECTION OF THE FOOT. This portrait of a section of the healthy hoof was taken from a freshly severed foot of a five-year old horse, recently killed in full health. This latter remark veterinary readers wall know how to appreciate, when comparing this with their own preparations^ which may have been derived (as generally happens) from the anatomy of diseased subjects, after the juice which should have supplied fresh secretory matter has been long turned aside, or converted to increase deformity. A fact that is further illustrated at page 451. To the general observer, the foot of a horse inclosed in its hoof would, indeed, seem like a