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sprang almost all the maladies to whicli the foot of the horse is sub- 

 ject. 



The unilateral shoe has this great advantage : it is identified with 

 the grand principle of the expansibility of the horse's foot, and of re- 

 moving or preventing the worst ailments to which the foot of the 

 horse is liable. It can be truly stated of this shoe, that while it affords 

 to the whole organ an iron defense equal to the common shoe, it per- 

 mits, what the common shoe never did or can do, the perfect liberty of 

 the foot. We are enabled to present our readers with the last improve- 

 ment of the unilateral shoe. 



The preceding cut gives a view of the outer side of the off or right 

 unilateral shoe. The respective situations of the five nails will be ob- 

 served ; the distance of the last from the heel, and the proper situations 

 at which they emerge from the crust. The two clips will hkewise be 

 seen — one in the front of the foot, and the other on the side between the 

 last and second nail. 



INNER SIDE OF TJNILATEKAL SHOE. 



This cut gives a view of the inner side of the unilateral shoe. The 

 two nails near the toe are in the situation in which Mr. Turner directs 

 that they should be placed, and behind them is no other attachment, 

 between the shoe and the crust. The portion of the crust which is 

 rasped off from the inner surface of the shoe, is now, we believe, not 

 often removed from the side of the foot; it has an unpleasant appear- 

 ance, and the rasping is somewhat unnecessary. The heel of this shoe 

 exhibits the method which Mr. Turner has adopted, and with con- 

 siderable success, for the cure of corns ; he cuts away a portion of the 

 ground surface at the heel, and injurious compression or concussion is 

 rendered in a manner impossible. 



There can be no doubt that this one-sided nailing has been exceed- 

 ingly useful. It has, in many a case that threatened a serious termina- 

 tion, restored the elasticity of the foot, and enabled il to discharge its 

 natural functions. It has also restored to the foot, even in bad cases, a 

 great deal of its natural formation, and enabled the horse to discharge 



