72 THE "HOKSE AXD ITS DTSEASK*^. 



Monsieur St. Bel's Shoe, 

 In consequence of the situation this gentleman hold 

 as professor of the English Vetennaiy College, every 

 attempt he made at improvement excited the attention 

 of the English, and as Mr. Blaine says, he was certainly 

 not well informed with regard to the general pathology 

 of the animal ; yet he possessed many excellent ideas on 

 the mechanical arrangement of the foot, and his principles 

 of shoeing were ingenious. The professor's shoe was 

 intended to present a concave surface to the ground, 

 that would more closely imitate nature, which mode he 

 offered as entirely new, and though it is x>ossihle he 

 considered it as such, yet the same form was as strenu- 

 ously recommended 300 years ago, in a treatise written 

 professedly on the subject by Caesar Eiaschi, an Italian. 



Mr. Morecroft's Shoe. 

 This ingenius professor of the veterinary art, rendered 

 himself eminent by his invention of casting shoes, or 

 moulding them by means of machinery, which was done 

 by sinking them in dies, but the plan was not found to 

 answer, and the ingenious inventor lost £3,000 by the 

 expeiiment. 



The Patent Artificial Frog. 



Mr. Colman, veterinary surgeon, convinced of the 

 necessity of pressure to the frog, vs^hen he entered on his 

 labours, invented also an ap]Daratus for this purpose, to 

 be applied in those cases, where, by bad shoeing, or by 

 disease, this part had become elevated from the ground. 

 The patent frogs were, therefore, intended to produce 

 pressure on the natural frogs. 



The Patent Expanding Shoe. 



Mr. Colman, finding his patent frog neither expanding 



horses' feet, nor his own pocket, as Mr. Blaine said, 



invented or rather adopted a shoe, having at the inside 



of ciach heel a clip bent down to embrace the bar, by 



