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remote from it as the eye ; ergo, it will do the same 

 to other organs that are nearer to the foot, or even 

 farther from it. 



Mr. Fearnley says : ' Next to the eye the larynx 

 is the most delicate organ of the body.' ' Roaring ' 

 is supposed to be due to the abuse of the bearing- 

 rein, which, in some cases, is most likely to be true ; 

 but then we have horses, such as racers and hunters, 

 that have never become acquainted with the bearing- 

 rein, and yet are ' roarers.' ' Whistling,' ' wheezing,' 

 thick wind and broken wind, 'have been much 

 thought about, and have had the fancy considerably 

 racked to account for their existence.' It is a singular 

 fact, that unshod horses are very rarely indeed to be 

 met with suffering from blindness, or any of these 

 other infirmities. Why should they be so free from 

 them ? They work harder and fare worse than ours 

 do. So we see that apart from the acknowledged, 

 and most apparent, diseases caused by the falsely 

 so-called ' necessary evil ' of shoeing, there are others 

 more subtle which may be attributed to it ; and it 

 needs no great stretch of the imagination, when we 

 are let into secrets like these, to suppose that some 

 cases even of glanders may be some day traced to 

 ill-treatment of the foot. 



Mr. Fearnley deplores that the spirit of speci- 

 alism should be wanting amongst veterinary surgeons. 

 In America, however, they have veterinary dentists, 

 as we may learn from a treatise already quoted from 

 in these chapters. Mr. Russell, 'practical horse- 

 shoer,' in his * Scientific Horseshoeing,' says : ' There 



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