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THE PRACTICAL HORSESHOER. 



Improved Shoe for Contracted Feet. 



Various ideas are set forth as a preventive and a remedy 

 for contraction. Nearly every one who thinks that he 

 knows anything- about the disease at all has some peculiar 

 notion of his own as to how and in what manner it should 

 be treated. 



I will not enter upon the subject to a very great ex- 



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Fig. 81 — Shoe used by Isaac A. Cavanagh for Contracted Feet. 



tent, nor touch upon the man^^ theories that are advanced 

 for the relief or permanent cure of the trouble. Neither 

 will I consider the causes that bring on the disease, nor 

 prescribe an3^ new expedient for a permanent cure. I 

 will simply set forth a mode of proceeding that in every 

 ordinary case will be sure to give satisfactor}^ results. 



