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the leg, called the tip-knee ; straightens cocked ankles , 

 cures corns, coffin-joint lamenesses, the ambler, shuffler, 

 spring-halt ; horses that hop behind when speeding ; the 

 single-footer. These names are known and understood 

 by horsemen. It removes all air puffs from the 

 horse, and makes him the perfect natural horse. 

 These clianges are not seen only by a very close 

 observer of long practical experience. It took me a 

 long time. It was clothed and buried in mystery. 

 The first horse I ever shod was a cripj^le. One foot 

 was so bad it could not be shod ; I have shod 

 cripples ever since, and they are all over the woi'ld, so 

 far as I have been. There have been hundreds of 

 books written on the horse, and they seem to be the 

 same thing continued — doctoring the effect; finding a 

 sore place, and making it worse. 



It is not my intention in this work to travel that 

 old field over again, and rehearse all of the cruelty and 

 barbarism that I have seen practiced on the already 

 suffering horse, called doctoring. My intention is to 

 introduce something to relieve suffering. I said I use 

 no medicine to cure these horses. For fear you may 

 think I perform some surgical operation, I will state 

 here I do nothing of the kind. I do not draw blood 

 on the horse ; it is hard work to do it, but it is busi- 

 ness. It's no miracle or miraculous thing ; it is science. 



I use these words, founder, ambler, single-footer, 

 and other names, or people would not understand what 

 I am talking about. The fact is, it is all summed up 

 in these words : Horses are changed from natural in 

 many ways and many stages, which I will explain on 

 principles which will not lie. 



