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OrEKATIONS ON THE FOOT. 



Fig. 498.— Short-branched Shoe. 



fosse, Sr., and Crompton, is 

 an ordinary shoe, made light, 

 with very short branches 

 (Figure 498), which when 

 put on protects the toe, the 

 mammse (outside or inside 

 toe), and the anterior parts 

 of the quarter in such a man- 

 ner that the parts posterior 

 to these remain uncovered, 

 and rest du-ectly on the 

 ground. Thus shod, the 

 shoe is almost in its natural 

 condition; it rests on the 

 ground by its posterier part, 

 and the heels are made to 

 contribute to the movement 

 of expansion of the elastic 

 parts of the foot. This shoe, then, has real advantages, if the 

 posterior part of the foot is yet normal, but if the heels are low 

 and the frog atrophied, it ceases to be of service. 



The flat shoe, or the shoe vnth base {fer a siege), first recom- 

 mended by Osmer, Morcroft, and more recently by Miles, Ein- 

 siedel and Hartmann, is the style generally adopted at the pre- 

 sent time in Saxony, and in various parts of Germany, as well as 

 in England. In France it has found its way through the benefits 

 observed by a few veterinarians. It is a shoe almost equal in 

 thickness to its width, square, so to speak, but as hght as possi- 

 ble; the internal border of the foot surface being hollowed or 

 dished in order not to come in contact with the sole, while the 

 part which rests on the plantar border of the wall is perfectly flat 

 and horizontal. The heel portion is rounded, and covers mostly 

 the heels of the foot where the borders of the shoe become per- 

 fectly adapted to the borders of the wall, to the remotest part of 

 the heels, and preserves the same contour until it reaches the frog. 

 The shoe nowhere projects beyond the border of the Mall ; it is 

 only toward the toe that it is slightly raised and has a small clip. 

 The groove of the English shoe renders its application better 

 than the peculiar nail holes of the French. Five or six nails are 

 usually sufficient. This shoe allows the dilatation of the foot in 



