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CAUSES OF INJURY 



lished in London in 1874, in relation to Coleman's teaching, 

 says : — 



He 



Fig. 573. — Ordinary Form of Rolling Motion Shoe. 



"In England, since Prof. Cole- 

 man ruthlessly destroyed the em- 

 pirical knowledge of the old mas- 

 ters, and substituted for it a system 

 of fantastic and often cruel no- 

 tions, we have been a prey to end- 

 less speculative theories. The 

 result is that with the best horses 

 in the world, we have a far larger 

 proportion of lame ones than are 

 to be found in any other coun- 

 try. * * * 



"It was a kind of teaching on 

 the foot and on shoeinsf that did 



Fig. 575.^ — Side View, Showing Degree of Curve. 



the incalculable and, I fear, almost irreparable damage which has brought suffering 



on horses and shortened their ex- 

 istence, which has spoiled farriers, 

 by leading them astray on false 

 pretexts, and has entailed dis- 

 FiG. 574.— Cross-section of the Same. credit on the English Veterinary 



School. * * ^ 

 " One change, among others introduced by Mr. Coleman, has entailed, I believe, 

 a more lasting damage on the art 

 farriery than any of his many oth- 

 er crochets, which have unfortu- 

 nately become thoroughly parts of 

 English horse-shoeing. He intro- 

 duced the drawing-knife, and 

 made it supercede the buttress for 

 preparing the feet for shoeing. 

 The buttress is the instrument still 



in use for paring down the wall surface to receive the shoe everywhere except in 



England and parts of the New 

 World, to which English hands 

 and language have carried our 

 modes of shoeing, such as it has 

 become only within the present 

 century. 



" Old men can remember the 

 buttress's being in general use 

 throughout Great Britain ; but 

 the way it was banished from 

 English practice is known to few ; 

 and its supercedence, and these 

 remarks on the effects of the 

 change, may astonish many. The 

 drawing-knife, or searcher, as it 

 was called, a small, hooked. 



Fig. 576. — Ground Surface of Above, Showing 

 Method of Putting on Calkins. 



