X CONTEXTS. 



CHAPTER III. 



Internal structure of the hoof The hoof compared with the Jac- 

 quard loom Longitudinal section of pastern The ' navicular ' 

 bone : its origin, form, and office The tendons Flexor and 

 extensor muscles and their tendons The ' coronary ' ring and 

 its object The hoof of the horse and the nail of man The 

 ' quick ' of the nail The ' sensitive ' or ' vascular ' laminae 

 Mutual dependence of the horny and vascular laminae 

 Analogy of laminae of whalebone and those of hoof Expansive 

 property of hoof Mr. Miles's experiments Advantage of this 

 property in a hunter Effect of shoes in leaping In any pace 

 the heel comes on the ground before the toe Importance of 

 this fact . ......... 38 



CHAPTER IV. 



Expansion acknowledged, acted upon, and perverted Authorised 

 directions for shoeing ' Thinning ' and ' opening ' Horse- 

 shoeing in England and America 'Dew-drops,' i.e. oozing 

 blood The diseases called by the name of ' thrush' True 

 causes of thrush Supply of blood to hoof Nature's balance 

 of supply and waste Office of the blood f Thrush ' a safety- 

 valve for inflamed blood Derivation of the word ' founder ' 

 ' Thrush' never seen in wild horses A comprehensive chal- 

 lenge Where do wild horses keep their knives ? The frog 

 again Lieutenant Douglas on the frog and its value. Mr. T. 

 Qepp's experience . . . . . . . . .56 



CHAPTER V. 



The FROG continued * Hammering ' on the roads Cause of the 

 hammering King Theodore's horse ' Hammel ' Elasticity of 

 the frog The ' Village Blacksmith 'The bicycle wheel- 

 Analogy between carriage springs and the horse's hoof 

 Lodgment of stones Mr. S. Chapin and his bare-footed horse 

 Hartmann's safety pad Spiked shoes American shoeing 

 Injury to the untouched frog impossible ' Greasy ' roads 

 Manchester 'lurry' horses The streets of Manchester A 

 doctor's horses Shoes of lurry horses Ludgate Hill and its 

 terrors Lieut. Douglas's testimony Indiarubber soles on ice 

 and on board ship The hoof an organ of touch Mr. J. 

 Bellows's story 'Free Lance's' view of the frog and its uses 

 Relative dependence of the frog and navicular bone . . 69 



