SHOEING. 



701 



Fig. 542. — The foot as it appeared. 



Sometimes the heels are cut down so closely that should the 

 shoe work loose, and wear or break down the quarters, it would 

 be easy to pro- 

 duce a weak, low 

 condition of the 

 heels. This may 

 cavise a great deal 

 of trouble, on ac- 

 count of the slow- 

 ness with which 

 the horn grows to 

 supply the in- 

 creased wear. 

 This morbid con- 

 dition of inflam- 

 mation also pro- 

 duces another 

 very marked ef- 

 fect, namely, that of separating the wall from the sole, or what 

 is termed becoming shelly. Sometimes, if the shoes are badly 



fitted and made too wide 

 at the heels (as explained 

 under the head of Con- 

 traction), they will soon 

 cause a weak, bad condi- 

 tion of the heels, the quar- 

 ter gradually giving way 

 or breaking down, and if 

 the foot is at all flat, the 

 sole and frog become lia- 

 ble to settle, or are made 

 convex. 



One of the most marked 

 cases oi' this kind the wri- 

 ter ever sew wr.s that of a 

 Fig. 543.— Form of shoe the writer would advise, cart horse, brought to his 



proaches the suppurative stages, death of the horn occurs. But atrophy, or wast- 

 ing of the secreting structure, gives a corresponding atrophied portion of born» 

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