LOCATION OF PARTS OF THE HORSE.
Location of Parts of the Horse
- 1. Mouth.
- 2. Nostrils.
- 3. Nose.
- 4. Face.
- 5. Eye.
- 6. Forehead.
- 7. Ears.
- 8. Poll.
- 9. Throat lach.
- 10. Jaw.
- 11. Chin.
- 12. Windpipe.
- 13. Neck.
- 14. Crest.
- 15. Withers.
- 16. Shoulder bed.
- 17. Chest.
- 18. Shoulders.
- 19. Forearm.
- 20. Knees.
- 21. Cannons.
- 22. Fetlock.
- 23. Pasterns.
- 24. Feet.
- 25. Feather.
- 25½. Elbow.
- 26. Flank.
- 27. Heart girth.
- 28. Back.
- 29. Loin.
- 30. Hip bone.
- 31. Coupling.
- 32. Ribs.
- 33. Belly.
- 34. Rear flank.
- 35. Stifle.
- 36. Thigh.
- 37. Buttock.
- 38. Croup.
- 39. Tail.
- 40. Quarters.
- 41. Lower thigh.
- 42. Hocks.
THE USE OF THE CLINICAL THERMOMETER
This instrument is employed for taking the internal temperature of the body, which is most conveniently done by placing the instrument for about three minutes in the animal’s rectum. Owing to the almost general adoption of this method, the expression “internal temperature” is used as a rule to signify “rectal temperature”; although the respective temperatures of different parts of the body vary to a slight extent. The practice of placing the thermometer in the mouth, as is the custom in human medicine, is not suitable to animals, owing to the danger of the patient breaking the glass instrument with the teeth.