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of but a slight degree of abnormal contraction in the quarters, 

 I think needs no labored effort to prove. Regular nailing is 

 very difficult of accomplishment in such a foot. In such feet, 

 the point of the nails should enter the wall at the inner edge, 

 taking a more oblique direction outwards, and not be driven 

 quite so high up as usual ; thus giving them a short and firm 

 grip. When the expansion of such feet is intended, Clips as 

 directed in the treatment of Simple Contraction should be used. 

 Under these conditions the new growth of the wall, whether 

 aided or not by stimulating liniments to the coronary secreting 

 structure, will grow down sound, healthy and strong, and the 

 edge of the wall will no longer chip off under the nails, like a 

 piece of mahogony veneer, which is the characteristic of a 

 Shelly Foot. 



SEEDY TOE. SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS. 



This diseased condition of the foot is of much more frequent 

 occurrence in England than in America; I presume for the 

 reason that granite pavements and macadamized roads are in 

 more universal use in the former than the latter country. It is 

 closely allied in its characteristics to the condition called 

 Shelly Foot, yet it has some distinctive peculiarities about it 

 of which the name Seedy Toe is the more expressive designa- 

 tion. It is mainly on the front of the foot that it commits its 

 ravages, and usually begins at the toe. That, like the general 

 Shelly condition of the foot, it is due mainly to defective secre- 

 tion of the horny matrix which binds the fibres of the wall into 

 a tough and compact mass, and that this is a result of a mor- 

 bidly contracted condition of the quarters, I cannot entertain 

 a doubt. This view derives support from the fact that nearly, 

 if not, all toe-cracks commence at the same spot as the seedy- 

 toe, and, therefore, that the same class of causes may produce 

 the different effects, accordingly as they may be governed by 

 different external conditions. Contraction of the quarters will 

 produce an elevation and disuse of the frog. Disuse of the 

 frog throws more weight upon the front part of the foot, and if 

 the horny sole be weakened as it usually is, depression of the 



