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DISEASES OF THE HORSE'S FOOT 



the shoe relates two cases of contracted foot treated by 

 these means in which the heels of one, after thirty-nine 

 days' treatment, had increased in width to the extent of 

 1 inch, and the heels of the other, after twenty-four days', 

 had enlarged f inch. Of the first case he gives the draw- 

 ings in Fig. 74. 



A represents the foot before treatment ; B the same 

 foot after nine days' treatment, when the heels had 

 widened f inch; and C the same foot at the end of the 

 thirty-nine days' treatment, at which date the frog was an 

 excellent-looking one, and the foot had increased an inch 

 in width.* 



Fig. 74. 



-The Changes in Form of a Contracted Foot treated 

 WITH Smith's Expansion Shoe. 



In 1893, at a meeting of the Midland Counties Veterinary 

 Medical Association, the late Mr. Olver said he had applied 

 this shoe to a valuable hunter that had gone so lame that 

 he could scarcely put his foot to the ground. After a fort- 

 night's application, and by the assistance of the double 

 screw in the shoe, the heel was forced out. Then the horse 

 was put to work with the shoe on, and he had hunted the 

 whole of the last season in a perfectly sound condition. t 



F. I). McLaren, M.R.C.V.S., writes:: 'I resolved to try 



* Journal of Comparative PathoJogy and Thera])eutics, vol. v., 

 p. 100. 



t Veterinary Record, vol. vi., p. 143. 

 + Ihid., vol. vi., p. 183. 



