Part I. PerfeSt Farrier. pp 



The caufes of this defeft in the Feet are different ; 

 Horfes which have either ill-lhaped, or too long 

 Feet, arefubjeft to grow Hoof-bound : They alfo 

 become Hoof- bound when their Hoofs are too dry, 

 and want nourifhrrient to maintain the Horn ^ or if 

 they be not right fhod, their Heels will grow nar- 

 row, and fo they will become Hoof-bound ^ after 

 which they never go firmly, becaufe their Heels 

 paining them, they endeavour to eafe themfelves 

 as much as they can, and therefore go upon their 

 Toes, which rftaketh the Back-finews to (brink, and 

 their Legs, at the Knee or Pattern- joint, to bend 

 forwards, when they ftand in their natural Pofture ^ 

 and which, if you help not at the beginning, will 

 make them halt to the Ground. It is difcourfed at 

 large in the Second Part, concerning the curing of 

 Feet which are Hoof-bound. 



To prevent and put a flop to this Infirmity, you 

 mult, when you (hoe fuch Horfes, take the Heels 

 very much down without hollowing the Quarters, 

 and pare the Frufh flat •, for all Horfes whofe Heels 

 are very much taken down, will not only never be- 

 come Hoof-bound, but alfo they will have no Bleymes 

 (which is an Inflammation occafioned by bruifed 

 Blood within the Hoof, betwixt the Sole and the 

 little Foot near to the Heel, where the Matter ga- 

 thereth, and caufeth the Diforders which are ex- 

 plained in the Second Part) and alfo the Sinews of 

 their Legs will be prcferved, efpecially if they 

 be Horfes which work in the Manage upon fofc 

 Ground. 



You muff alfo, befldes this Precaution, never 

 open the Heels with the Butteris, as the Smiths do^ 

 who weaken the Quarters by prefTuig the Butteris 

 ed ge- ways forward •, they cut alfo the end of the 

 faid Quarter or Heel, and take it away even within 

 an Inch of the Hair, and they call that to open 

 the Heels ^ but they are fo far from doing that, 

 H 2 . that. 



