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CAUSES OF IN-JURY. 



bent a little over them, but they were prevented from injuring them by being ex- 

 tended to the cleft which separated the bars from the frog. This pressure of the 

 web on the bars was an assistance to them in the expan- 

 sion of the quarters ; and the shoe was kept so wide at 

 the heels that the exterior parts of it could not hurt him. 

 This shoe, therefore, acted exactly contrary to other 

 shoes, which, as I before men- 

 tioned, are generally an im- 

 pediment to the expansion of 

 the heels, whereas this be- 

 came an assistance to it. 



" In three weeks I took off 

 this shoe to examine the state 

 of the foot. His frog was 

 found to be increased, and in 

 a better condition than I had 

 before seen it. The same shoe 

 was therefore replaced for three weeks more, at the end of which time his foot had 

 become considerably larger and straighter. In a week or ten days more the horse 

 was to go thirty-six miles on a turnpike road. 



"Although this kind of shoe had succeeded so well in a riding-horse, I had some 



doubts about venturing it on the road. However, 

 I at last determined to risk it, and had another shoe 

 put on of exactly the same pattern, in which he per- 

 formed his journey without any injury, so that I 

 have ever since continued to adopt it, having found 

 it to answer beyond any expectation I had formed 

 of it ; for that foot which was before smaller than 

 the other, with the toe turning out, has, by the use 

 of this shoe, become of the same size, and so straight that there is now scarcely any 

 difference between the two feet." 



Figs. 609, 610.— Shoes Adapted for Stiff Joints. 



Fig. 611. — French Shoe for 

 Aiding Mobility. 



Fig. 612. 



African Shoes. 



Fig. 613. 



