Identifier: horseitstreatm09axej (find matches)
Title: The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London, Gresham Pub. Co.
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e, both in thehorse and in the ass, is a decided prominence, and is identical in itsminute structure with the hoof of the horse, as will shortly appear, whilethe palmar and the plantar pads of man and the dog are correctly describedas thickened epidermic covering quite distinct from hoof horn. A careful examination of specimens which have been obtained for theparticular purpose of ascertaining what are the structural relations betweenthe callosities and the ergots of the horse tribe and the plantar and thepalmar pads in man and the dog has led to some very interesting results. The several parts referred to may, for convenience, be considered in thefirst place as they appear to the unaided eye of the observer. After whiclitheir minute structure will be more easily explained. Man has no distinct pads beyond those which have been described ashardened cuticle, the result of pressure and of friction affecting certainprominent parts of the soles of the feet and the palms of the hands. These
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SKIN MARKINGS- Blue Roan, \\hite Stripe Piebald Red Roan, White Strice GrayCream SKIN MARKINGS AND CALLOSITIES OF THE HORSE 503 points are indicated in tlie liunian feet A in fig. 6G4 by tlic letters a h c.To the unaided eye the parts referred to are apparently covered with ahard mass of cuticle, anda microscopic examina-tion confirms this conclu-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 surfaceof any one of the padsunderneath the foot ofthe dog, when it is freedfrom the habitual coatingof dirt, the olxserver willbe struck by its tessellatedor chequered appearance.A series of columns orcones will be distinguished,with the points directed,in the natural positionof the

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