CONTENTS. Xi 



Papc 



Clips indispensable 76 



Number of nails 76 



Manner of introducing the nails 77 



Paring of the sole 11 



Experiments on colt's feet, in conjunction with side-nailing 77 



The use of the drawing knife superseded 78 



Spontaneous exfoliation of the horny sole 78 



PAPER VI. 



Elevated position of the small pastern bone 79 



Production of healthy and morbid specimens 80 



Morbid phenomena, confirmatory of the author's views regarding 



the false position of the contents of the hoof 80 



Displacement of all the bones of the foot 81 



Reduction of the foot bones to their primitive stations, an import- 

 ant part of the treatment for navicular lameness hitherto 



omitted 82 



Organic disease preceded by long-continued functional disturbance 83 



Emancipation of the foot from the iron fetter 83 



New unfettered plan of shoeing, as received at the Royal Vete- 

 rinary College 84 



A model shoe forwarded to Mr. Professor Sewell 85 



Reluctance to the admission of unfettered shoeing within the 

 College 86 



CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS. 



The importance of navicular disease much underrated by Mr. Bracy 



Clark 87 



The author's opinion of Mr. Clark's works on the foot of the 



horse 88 



Important pathological facts never before published 89 



The importance of a minute investigation by the profession on the 



subject of morbid elevation of the foot bones 90 



The descent of the toe or front of the coffin bone denied by 



Mr. Coleman as commensurate with its heels 91 



Author's opinion that the coffin bone descends equally at all parts 



in the unshod natural foot 92 



