CONTENTS 



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 ' laminee — 

 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 — ' 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. 

 Gepp'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. Cbapin 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 Lances' view of the frog and its uses 

 — Relative dependence of the frog and navicular bone . . 69 



