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SHOEIN"G. 



Fig. 468. — Good model of road-shoe. 



(lition to require a continual paring away, and the horse is hope- 

 lessly ruined. AVealthy men in England, who are in the habit 



of riding much, finding 

 that a horse will ride 

 easier by having the soles 

 pared out thin, require to 

 have it done, not caring if 

 it does spoil the horse in a 

 short time, as they are 

 Mble to buy others. 



While in conversation 

 on this subject with Dr. 

 Hamill, before referred to, 

 I asked the question: 

 "Doctor, what do you 

 think of thinnino- out the 



O 



sole as usually practiced? " 

 His answer was: "It is 

 death to the foot, because 

 the foot in consequence 



loses its moisture so rapidly that it becomes a direct cause of con- 

 traction through the absorption which takes place. This, acting 



on the nutrition of the part, 



may cause various changes, 



etc. Yet there are occasions 



when extreme paring ma 



be resorted to with son 



advantage." In explan 



tion he related the folloA 



ing incident: Some yeai 



ago when John H. Cool 



the celebrated equestriai 



came from Paris to pel 



form at the New York Cii 



cus, his horses were consid 



erably the worse for the long 



passage and close confine- 

 ment. Two of them, both 



splendid animals, had their JTig. 409.— Bearing surface of the same. 



