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 tural defence, renders it subject to be bruised or 

 wounded by stones or other hard bodies.* 



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This figure shews the sole cut away as lately 

 recommended, in order that the slioe with a flat 

 upper surface, as here represented, may not come in 



* Feet become pumiced also from general inflammation 

 of these parts j this constitutes the disease which is usually 

 CdiWtd founder : they also become contracted from injuries 

 done to the coffin joint. If these defects come on gradually 

 and slowly, they may be considered as cormected with the 

 method of shoeing, and may to a certain degree be remedied ; 

 but if they come on rapidly, they may be attributed to the 

 causes just mentioned, and, generally speaking, they do not 

 admit of a complete cure. From want of knowing, or of at» 

 tending to the different causes of these alterations, much 

 disappointment and expence have occurred, and more espe- 

 cially in cases of contracted feetj when, after filing away the 



