Part I. PerfeSi Farrier. 1 1 5 



CHAP. XXV1IL 



Of Arched Legs. 



WHen Horfes have Arched Legs, or their Legs 

 bending forwards at the Knee, when they, 

 are {landing in their natural fituation, People may 

 alfo cut the above-mentioned Sinew as they do to 

 Horfes which have their Legs from the Knee to the 

 Coronet in a flraight Line } and if they begin with, 

 the Shoeing, as I have before ordered, the Operati- 

 on will fucceed well ; for after all is done, you will 

 fee how neat the Legs will appear in comparifort 

 of what they were before : You are to begin with 

 the Shoeing, and you cannot, in fhoeing of them, 

 pare their Heels too low, that fo you may force and 

 compel the Sinews to ftretch : At iirft when you 

 make 11 fe of this Invention, the Horfe may halt with 

 it, but you muft anoint the Back-iinews with fome 

 foftning Ointment, fuch as the Ointment of Montfe- 

 lier^ defcribed in the Second Part, and anoint the Si- 

 news twice a Week with it, having firft warmed the 

 Sinew by chafing it with your hand ^ this Ointment, 

 will foften the Sinews, take away the Pain, and To 

 facilitate the extenfion of the Nerves. 



If after having taken down the Heel, as I have 

 told you, the Leg be not in that condition you would 

 wifh it, being ftill very much arched at the Knee, 

 you mult then make for llim a Planch-fhoe, which 

 muft go beyond, or exceed the Foot at the Toe two 

 or three Fingers breadth, and rife alfo a little to- 

 wards the edge \ fallen it upon the Foot, and then 

 anoint his Sinew with, the aforefaid Ointment-, let 

 him itand after that manner, only walking hint in 

 your hand every day about an Hour, and in a fhort 

 "time you will fee the good effects of it 



