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My views regarding the precise seat of the dis- 

 ease in chronic lameness of the Foot of the Horse, 

 have been, for several years, before the public ; 

 and veterinary practitioners have since discarded 

 the old and erroneous term of Coffin Lameness, and 

 adopted that which is truly descriptive of this for- 

 midable malady, viz. The Navicular Joint Disease. 

 I am now induced to collect the papers on this sub- 

 ject, which are dispersed through various numbers 

 of The Veterinarian, together with my other 

 papers in that Periodical, illustrative of the System 

 of Unfettered Shoeing ; which system secures the 

 ordinary defence to the foot, without confining the 

 elastic hoof in its alternate expansion and contrac- 

 tion, and affords facilities to the growth and full 

 development of the organ, notwithstanding a con- 

 tinued application of shoes to the two-years-old, or 

 even yearling colts. 



