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this expedient for a lifetime with- 

 out injury to the foot ; but in the 

 hands of ignorant men, a horse 

 shod by this method is subject to 

 certain injury. In general I do 

 not hesitate to say from practical 

 experience that I believe hot fit- 

 ting and clipping injurious if the 

 feet have lost their proper angle. 

 In the endeavor to accommodate 

 shoes that are too short for the 

 feet for which they are intended, 

 isrnorant and unskilled farriers 

 often cut out the front of the foot 



f F 



Fig. 51. upper face of coffin- 

 bone, SHOWING EFFECTS OP HOT 

 FITTING AND CLIPPING. 



A, A, Extensions or wings of 

 heels. B, Eminence on which isin- 

 serted the extensor tendon. C, C, 

 until they draw blood, then burn lateral faces. D, Groove worn 



in the clip so as to stop the flow by spur. E, Depth to which this 



r T 1 ^ ^ xi ii groove sometimes cxtcnds. F, F, 



oi blood, and worse than a , ^^ . . , • u ♦v, v, u\a 



' ' Margin to which the bone should 



hammer the clip back into the conform. G, G, Articular surface 



r. , of coffin-joint. 



The result of such malpractice is to cause the heat to pene- 

 trate into the sensitive parts, dry up the secreting nourishment 

 and cause an unnatural compression against the insensitive 

 laminfe at their union with the sensitive laminae around the 

 lower margin of the toe. Fever sets in, drying up and destroy- 

 ing the parts under compression, and the formation of a de- 

 cayed, pithy, horny substance is the result. 



But in addition to clips, there are many other spur-produc- 

 ing causes, which for want of space can not be defined in the 

 present work. Mere mention, however, may be made of a few 

 that have come under my notice, such as the driving of large, 

 thick-bladed nails into thin shells. This, it is true, may not 

 lay up the horse, but the spur which will result will make him 



