PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF FEET 



809 



The coachman expressed surprise, and exhibited displeasure, 

 when he saw me taking up the horse's foot, ordering the shoe to be 



FIG. 712. 



taken off, and a new pair 

 of shoes to be made, while 

 I proceeded to prepare the 

 feet. It subsequently 

 transpired that putting the 

 horse out of his misery 

 was contemplated, and 

 that our opinion was ex- 

 pected to be in accordance 

 with advice tendered to 

 that effect. We took pains, 

 and employed the knowl- 

 edge and skill at command, 

 with the result that the 

 horse which arrived in 

 pain and difficulty walked 

 from the forge two hours 

 afterward, almost free 

 from pain, and was put to 

 work either on the next 

 or second day, and went 

 on rendering excellent ser- 

 vice for three years after- 

 wards, when, being then 

 nineteen years old, and a 



casualty having happened to him, he was put away. 



Fig. 711 represents a coffin-bone, selected for the purpose of 



showing one in a more advanced stage of disease than any of those 



yet brought under notice. 



FIG. 713. 



