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Dr. David W. Cocb.ran of New York City has attained unusual 

 success in cases of chronic laminitis with dropped sole by the use 

 of a specially designed shoe. 



Cochran claims that, not only are horses with dropped soles 

 that would othei'wisio have to be put off the streets enabled to do 



Fig-. 36 — Superior surface, showing- concavity or bowl, as formed by the toe 

 and branches of the shoe, as designed by Dr. David W. Cochran. 



a fair amount of work by means of this shoe, but that continually 

 wearing it, meanwhile keeping the convexity of the front of the 

 hoof rasped thin, in time brings about a marked improvement, 

 and that after some months or years of use the animals are able to 

 work with ordinary rubber-pad shoes, provided they are ar- 

 ranged to facilitate breaking over. 



From having been successfully used on some race horses of 



