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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arts of the hind extremitiescorresponding with the scapulse or shoulder-blades of the fore-limbs. The coxee or uppermost bones of the posterior limbs are unitedtogether below, and joined to the sacrum or terminal portion of the spineabove. By this arrangement a firm aud compact union is effected betweenthe leg and the trunk, so that the impulses from behind may be impartedto the entire body, through the articulation of the femur or thigh-bonewith the pelvis. To the horse as a living motor the construction and development ofthis region is of supreme importance. In galloping, jumping, rearing, as well as in draught, those vigorousefforts which enter into the highest expression of speed and power aremainly produced by the action of the muscles of the croup on the upperand lower thigh. How ftir that action may be effective in the one case orthe other will depend upon the mechanical arrangement of the parts. Length and width are qualities to which the croup owes its chief beauty PLATE VII.
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