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of the ordinary bar shoe (Fig. 53) are that it does not put pressure 

 on the frog, and that it is liable to get caught by the hind shoe. 

 The shoe should be moderately stout, so as to lessen the effects of 

 concussion. With sandcrack at the toe of the hind foot, a shoe 

 with side-clips, like those used for hunting, may be employed. 

 When the crack extends to the coronet, or when it goes too close 



■^ig- 53- — Ordinary bar shoe. 



to it to allow a groove being made at the upper extremity of the 

 fissure, I would advise the adoption of the method known among 

 French veterinary surgeons as le procede Castandet. It is 

 performed as follows (Fig. 54) : — Commencing at the coronet, about 

 half an inch away from the crack, on each side, cut with the searcher 

 two grooves, so that they may meet, in the line of the fissure, at an 



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