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already) which diflenfion being repeated at 

 every ftep he goes, tires it, and caufes an in- ' 

 flammation, whence proceed relaxation, de- 

 fluxions and tendinous fwellings, efpecially after 

 long journies or hard riding. Thefe accidents 

 proceed lefs from the length of the journey which 

 is the common notion than from the bad cuftom 

 of paring the fole. 



The common methods of fhoeing have another 

 general inconvenience upon journies ; which is that 

 fand and gravel get in, and are ground between 

 the fole and fhoe, and again between the horfe's 

 heels and thofe of die flioe ^ and not coming 

 out again readily, they caufe comprefTions, in- 

 flammations, and at length a collection of mat- 

 ter which putrifies and ruins the cartilage, 

 forming in this latter cafe, callous horny ex- 

 crefcences, and in the former bruifes and com- 

 prefllons of the fole. 



Thefe laft accidents are alfo very often the 

 effedls of a flone's being wedg'd in between 

 the fhoe heels ; and although this is foon per- 

 ceived becaufe the horfe fuddenly goes lame, 

 yet in endeavouring to knock it out, you run 

 the chance of either hurting and laming the 

 horfe, or ftriking off the fhoe. 



Let this circumflance be well attended to, 

 that the more a horfe's foot is pared, the more 

 he is expofed to the danger of meeting fuch ac- 

 cidents : It is in the firfl place, depriving him 

 of the defence provided by nature againll hard 



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