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ON THE 



(General treatment of tJie jpeet* 



AT will naturally be expected, that in treating of the manag-ement 

 of the Feet, I should say something on the principles and practice of 

 Shoeing, concerning which, the public curiosity has of late been 

 wroug-ht up to a great pitch, and has become as it were insatiable. 

 But, as I can lay claim to no discovery upon this subject, which 

 Professor Coleman, has treated in a way that has done him the 

 greatest honor, in spite of the cavillings of envy, ignorance, and 

 prejudice, I must refer my readers for information on this head, to 

 his very elegant and luminous woi-k on the Horse's Foot. 



Nevertheless, it is but right that I should remark in this place, 

 that the unprejudiced experience of many years, made upon a very 

 large scale, has convinced me, that no other principles of Shoeing, 

 than those which Mr. Coleman has laid down, are capable of pre- 

 serving the Foot of the Horse from disease, or are so well calculated 

 to ward off to the latest possible period, that slow and gradual contraC- 



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