£o The Compleat Horseman : or, 



Is very good for that purpofe : Then cut the Vein 

 beneath and let it Blood } if it bleed too long, you 

 may bind up the Orifice with a large Band and a 

 Comprefs. 



If for Flat-feet you bar the Veins, you will come 

 fooner to your purpofe than if you had omitted it - 7 

 but that doth not hinder this following Method 

 to be very good, although you had not barred 

 them. 



You mult then forge according to the following 

 Figure, A. C. D. F. (See Plate third, Fig. 9.) Shoes 

 Yery ftraight in the Quarter, and which do not turn 

 in a Circle, nor follow at all the (hape of the Quar- 

 ters of the Foot, but whofe branches from the Toe 

 A. EK to the Spunges, C. F. mult be very ftraight, 

 and you mutt pierce the Holes, G. H. I. L. very 

 near the edge : You muft alfo place thofe Shoes fo, 

 that you . may have about the thicknefs of two 

 Crowns of Horn to take away at the Toe A. D. 

 with the Cutting-Knife, and they having their 

 branches ftraight, there will, without doubt, be a 

 good deal of Horn to take off at the fides A. B. C. 

 and D. E. F.. which are retrenched by the fhape of 

 the Shoe within the pointed Line, as you may fee 

 in the Figure. 



Having then a Shoe made after this fafhion al- 

 together flat, and the branches near ftraight, pare 

 brs Foot very gently, and fit the Shoe to it *, for al- 

 though it reft a little upon the Sole, it matters not, 

 becaufe by no means you muft make your Shoe 

 vaulted or hollow, and faften the Shoe with very 

 thin Nails, taking but a (lender hold for fear of 

 preffing the Vein, or meeting with the quick} your 

 Horfe being fhod with this kind of Shoe which I 

 have been ordering, c put a Reftri&ive in his Foot 



• made of Chimney-foot and Turpentine boiled to- 

 f gether upon a flow Fire, always ftirring it until 



* it be pretty thick, and apply it fcalding hot, with, 



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