Essentials of the Principles and Practice of Equine and Bovine Medicine and Surgery (Classic Reprint)

The figure on the opposite page is drawn from the skeleton of the famous race horse Ec Upse, and is considered by Professors Gramgee and Law, from whose work on veterinary anatomy it is copied, as anatomically perfect. 1. Zygomatic arch. 2. Orbital cavity. 3. Face bones. 4. Incisor teeth. 5. Molar teeth. 6. Lower Jaw. 7. A tlas, 1st vertebra of neck. 8. A xis, 2d vertebra of neck. 9. Cervical vertebrae (5). 10. Spinal processes of back. 11. Dorsal and lumbar veretbrae. 12. Sacrum. 13. Coccygeal or tail bones. 14. Scapula, or shoulder blade. 15. Acromion process. 16. Hollow of shoulder blade. 17. Superior tuberosity of the humerus. 18. Humerus, or arm bone. 19. Olecranon, or elbow bone. 20. Cartilages of the ribs. 21. Ribs. 22. Haunch, the external and anterior angle of the ilium. 23. Os innominatum, or Haunch bone. 24. Great trochanter. 25. Small trochanter. 26. Femur, or thigh bone. 27. I schium, posterior angle of the ilium. 28. Radius, or fore-arm bone. 29. Carpal, or knee bones. 30. Trapezium. 31. Metacarpal, or Cannon bone. 32. Os suffraginis, or pastern bone. 33. Sesamoid bone. 34. Os coronae, or small pastern Bone. 35. Superior tuberosity of the tibia. 36. Stifle joint. 37. Tibia, or leg bone. 38. Os calcis, or point of hock. 39. Tarsus, or Hock joint. 40. Head of small metatarsal bone. 41. Cannon, or metatarsal bone. 42. Hoof, or foot bone. 43 Fetlock joint. 44. Patella. 45. Fibula.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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