The Horse - its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding, training and management (1905) (14763812032)

Identifier: horseitstreatmen01axej (find matches)

Title: The Horse : its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding, training and management

Year: 1905 (1900s)

Authors: Axe, J. Wortley

Subjects: Horses

Publisher: London : Gresham

Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine

Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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n the more the reaction of the soil against theweight of the body augments and fatigues the muscles and taxes thetendons and ligaments which are connected with the sesamoid bones. Deficiency of length of the pastern evidently has inverse drawbacks.The short-jointed horse surcharges his bones beyond measure. He lackssuppleness in consequence of the insufficiency of the fetlock as an apparatus 80 CONFOKMATION AND ITS DEFECTS of dispersion, and has, from this fact, hard reactions; besides, he is morepredisposed to osseous blemishes of the bones of the limbs, as ring-bones, &c. The direction of the pastern is intimately allied to its length; that isto say, a long pastern (fig. 62) is in most cases too horizontal, while itbecomes more vertical when it is too short. An exception is illustratedin fig. 63, where the pasterns are both short and sloping. The close relationship which associates long-jointedness with low-jointedness is easy of comprehension, the pastern becoming less and less

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