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they were when thev were colt's feet. If they have 

 been contracted very bad, so as to cause ossification, 

 expanding lets the body come back on the base and 

 helps in many ways that they have never seen, and 

 which I think some never will see. They have so 

 much talking to do they can spend no time to learn 

 this great science, and that is not all ; they will have 

 to take as much as two lessons before they will be 

 able to teach. I use no medicine, and work on the 

 feet, the cause of all this trouble, and cure ; they work 

 all over the horse, and useall kinds of liniments, blis- 

 terins, and butchering, and the horse goes on from 

 bad to worse, and no cure is effected. 



After I get the colt's foot on in shape, and all in 

 harmony of action, and keep it so or nearly so, and 

 nature does not repair the damages caused by contrac- 

 tion, then I think there is some trouble inside that na- 

 ture cannot help. I never applied this principle on 

 any horse that I did not help, and wonderfully, too. 

 "When I quit one of these horses the effect doctors 

 need not take the job of curing. Their medicine is 

 useless trash, and their butchery is worse. If I can 

 do this as I state, that is proof enough. 



I read a small piece in a paper about ten years since, 

 written many years ago by Dr. Gangees, on the horse's 

 feet. They had been held, he said, from growing nat- 

 ural by ironing. That was all he could say about it. 

 He knew nothing of the effect it produced. They had 

 been elongated. He was an Englishman. Here are 

 some sayings of a horse-shoer, also an Englishman, 

 who wrote a book in 1700. His name was William 

 Osmer. He was a practical horse-shoer. They had 



