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cation of the Cliarlier shoe has been attended with the 

 happiest results. 



The first was that of an old horse^ who had been lame 

 in both fore feet for years with chronic laminitis. His 

 feet were large but strong. Being equally lame on both 

 feet^ he went evenly, but very tenderly. After a month^s 

 application of the shoe the action on his road was so far 

 recovered as to pass muster as a harness horse for 

 country use. His feet, which had always been very hot 

 and feverish, were, when I saw him, quite cool. 



The second case was a hunter, who for the last five 

 seasons has constantly lost the shoe ofi* one fore foot. 

 The other foot is a tolerable one, but the faulty one has, 

 or rather had, neither sole nor horn. The crust was so 

 damaged by the constant tearing away of nails through it, 

 that there was next to nothing to nail a shoe to. This 

 horse was shod with the Charlier shoe, and a worse or 

 more difiicult subject for the operation could not be. 

 The efiect was immediate. He went through two days^ 

 hunting in a deep country without a clench stirring, and 

 then travelled by road for over a hundred miles, going 

 sound all the way, and arriving with the shoes worn 

 indeed, but firm in their places. 



The last case with which I will trouble my readers is 

 that of a young horse, who had begun to move his feet in 

 that skating fashion generally indicative of incipient side 

 bones. This horse^s feet were shelly and brittle, but 

 well formed otherwise. After a month^s wear of the 

 Charlier shoe he stepped with confidence, and exhibited 

 that action which was to be expected from his shape and 

 make. The cartilages too had recovered the springy 

 feel, which they seemed in a fair way of losing. 



An idea being very prevalent that particular tools are 



