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HORSESHOEING. 



Often some form of dressing is necessar)', and this is usually 

 held in place hj a special shoe. For slight injuries, such 

 splint-dressings as are shown in Figs. 188 and 189 are sufficient. 

 Whether such a dressing be applied to the front or hind feet, 

 the shoe should be well concaved upon the hoof-surface. The 

 dressing is held in place by thin splints of tough wood, which 

 are firmly wedged between the shoe and hoof. 



Fig. 189. 



A practical "splint shoe" for hospital use 



In those rare cases in which it is necessary to maintain 

 continuous pressure upon the seat of the wound, and to protect 

 the entire plantar surface of the hoof, a covered shoe (Figs. 

 190 and 191) is recommended. This shoe is provided with a 

 sheet-iron cover, having at the toe a spur which fits into a cor- 

 responding hole in the toe of the shoe, and fastened at the 

 heels by means of screw heel-calks. 



