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entire limb. Any one knows that an injury to the toe or any 

 part of the foot is liable to cause severe pain and disturbance 

 throughout the entire limb. The effect is the same in the horse's 

 foot. This being true, we want to learn, if we can, the causes of 

 these derangements, and how to prevent as well as overcome them. 

 I regard this subject so important as to demand more than 

 ordinary care to make it so 

 simple and practical in its 

 explanations that it can be 

 easily understood, as well 

 as give such proofs of the 

 faults common to the pres- 

 ent system of shoeing that 

 the necessity for correcting 

 them will be apparent.* 

 To aid in doing this, I. give 

 a large variety of illustra- 

 tions of the hoof and inter- 

 nal parts of the foot, which 

 will give a good idea of its 

 general structure. Among 

 these will be found many 

 entirely new illustrations. 

 For example, cuts showing 

 parts of hoof cut away, and FlG ' 4a6 - The same alter si * yea 

 different views showing tendons, lateral cartilages, etc.; also a 

 great variety of shoes which have been drawn or copied under 

 my special supervision. 



* This chapter, as first written, was limited to simple details ; but upon reading 

 it carefully it became evident to the writer that a more complete and thorough ex- 

 planation of the subject was necessary, in order to make it worthy of acceptance 

 for general reference. He then, as a preliminary step, obtained every work availa- 

 ble that had been published during the past hundred years. He also took notes 

 from leading experts on the subject of shoeing, particularly from Dr. Hamill, for- 

 merly professor of Pathological Shoeing, in Columbia Veterinary College, of New 

 York, and one of the most thorough professional students of the foot in the coun- 

 try. After re-writing the chapter, it was first submitted to him for revision and 

 correction; next, to Hon. Win. C. Gage, of Battle Creek, Mich., who had been led 

 to study the subject in the preparation of a work on Shoeing some years previous. 

 Again, to Dr. McLellan, of Bridgeport, Ct., the present professor of Pathological 

 Shoeing in the above-named College, and accepted as one of the very highest author- 



