58o HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. 



frosts of winter, but when the roads are greasy or leaded 

 (plombe), on the granite pavement, where so many horses 

 fall, or on the rolled asphalte, which, although a calamity 

 at present, may become a great boon, in saving horses 

 and carriages, be easier kept clean, diminish the noise, 

 dust, etc., if my shoeing is adopted. 



' What falls, sprains, and accidents of every description 

 will be avoided in preventing horses from slipping ! Per- 

 fectly firm on all kinds of pavement, they will be more 

 light in hand, more easy to drive, will be less fatigued, and 

 tire their riders less, will travel more quickly, and we will 

 not so often see those premature failures of the limbs for 

 which the curative art can do so little, and which cause 

 such heavy losses to the owners of horses. 



' My shoeing is also opposed to the development of 

 corns (bleimes) and contusions, caused either by the or- 

 dinary shoes or the interposition between them and the 

 sole of stones, pebbles, or other hard bodies, since the 

 branches of my shoe do not bear on the corners of the 

 sole, and no foreign body can fix itself there, or bruise 

 the living structures. 



' But that which more particularly makes my method 

 of shoeing superior to all the other known methods is, I 

 repeat, the fact of the foot being allowed its liberty of 

 action, all its vertical and lateral elasticity, however trifling 

 this may be at the lower part of the hoof, or whate\'er 

 may be the combinations it determines there ; in this 

 respect it evidently opposes wasting of the hoof and con- 

 traction of the heels, that destructive affection which ruins 

 a considerable number of valuable horses. 



' At first sight, this precious result of my shoeing may 



