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satisfied that in many respects they are superior to any other 

 model. They are infinitely lighter, the nails are smaller ancl 

 fewer in number all steps in the right direction; but the domi- 

 nant superiority of the device consists in the fact that the frog 

 obtains pressure to the extent contemplated by nature, and in 

 the case of the Charlier tip particularly, the exercise of its double 

 function as a buffer and dilator is absolutely untrammeled by 

 the shoe." (See Fig. 3, Plate V.) 



FINISHING, ETC. 



When the shoes have been fitted, the nails driven, drawn up, 

 and clinched, see that nothing is left undone. It frequently hap- 

 pens, however, at this stage that the incompetent workman in- 

 flicts serious and lasting injury on the foot. If the wall has not 

 been sufficiently reduced in leveling the foot, or if the shoe used 

 is too small, the rasp is required to reduce the projecting parts. 

 While in some cases the whole outside surface of the wall is 

 rasped and smoothed off. Such finishing touches are very hurt- 

 ful to the foot, and should never be practiced. Covering the 

 whole outside wall of the foot, from the coronet to the sole level, 

 is a thin protective membrane or crust, which should never be 

 destroyed. Rasping this protective covering away robs the foot 

 of natural protection, moisture, secretion, etc. 



SHOEING FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE. 



There are many styles of shoes, the product of American in- 

 genuity, for the purpose of mitigating or overcoming certain de- 

 fects, such as interfering, forging, stumbling, etc. Shoeing for 

 a specific purpose has made greater progress in America than in 

 any other country on the face of the globe. The styles of shoes 

 invented for this purpose are without number, and many of 

 them are well adapted for the purpose of overcoming faulty gait 



