Identifier: horseitstreatmen09axej (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

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icroscopic examina-tion confirms this conclu- M, —^- «- sion. In the dog the palmarand the plantar pads areunderneath the fore-feetand the hind-feet B, fig.664. 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 suifaceof any one of the padsunderneath the foot ofthe dog, when it is freedfrom the habitual coatingof dirt, the ol)server willbe struck by its tessellatedor che(;uered appearance.A series of columns oi-cones 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, formiiand 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 B.
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Fig. 664.—Plantar Surface of the Foot of The small letters «, b, and <■ indicate the corresponding- points of thethree. These points are in man at the centre of the heel a, the protu-berance at the joint of the third or middle toe h, and in the centre ofthe middle toe c. In tlie 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 a, on theergot hy and near the centre of the frog c. nearly smooth covering to the sensitive 504 THE HORSES POSITION IN THE ANIMAL WORLD are to be accepted as the rudiments of the plantar pads in the 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 structures and not merely hardened cuticle. Ergots are constantly present in horses and in a

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