REMARKS ON SHOEING. 



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The form of the shoe which I recommend is represented in 

 the following woodcuts ; and it ought to be so made and fitted as 



Fio. 55. Fio. 56. 



Pio. 65. — Inferior (concave) surface of shoe. 

 Fig. 56. — Superior (flat) surface of shoe, bearing on the sole. 



to bear upon all parts of the sole and crust that are calculated to 

 bear pressure. Experience and anatomical investigation points 

 to the conclusion that the sole 

 as well as the crust is intended 

 to perform this weight-bearing 

 function : the sole around the 

 margin of the crust for the dis- 

 tance of about half-an-inch in 

 all parts of the foot except at 

 the heels — i.e., that part of it 

 embraced in the triangle be- 

 tween the wall and bar ; in fact, 

 the seat of corn. Here the shoe 

 should i"est iipon the wall onlj, 

 being made sufficiently narrow 

 at this part (as seen in Figs. 55, 

 56). By the application of such 



Fio. 57. 



•1 -n , />.!/>. 1 The foot prepared for the shoe. The 



a shoe, all parts of the foot Cal- sole, frog, and bars untouched with tho 



culated to bear weight are called ^"^^® ^°^ *^° y^*" : *^^ natural length 



. p . 1 . , 1 of toe and depth of wall kept in their 



upon to perform their natural rektive positions by the rasp only. 



function ; the various structures 



kept in their proper and relative position ; the frog allowed to 



come to the gi-ound to prevent concussion; the weight of the 



