74 THE AllT OF HORSE-SHOKING 



^l^j^^'^^ ^c*""" iiexible parts below, I need not now dwell upon ; 



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bone, and cor- j[jut xv[i\i respcct to tlic oavicular joint lameness, I 



ttt7hapehf ^^S ^^ ^^^^^ y^^^ ^^ ™y papers on that most for mi d- 

 giowih. ^Y)[q and prevalent disease. 



Hunting horses should, perhaps, be exceptions to 

 this method of nailing, from their known liability 

 to cast their shoes, even when nailed all roimd ; 

 and at my first view into this matter, I did think 

 that horses with flat feet and low weak heels would 

 also prove exceptions ; but experience justifies me 

 in stating, that there are many feet of this descrip- 

 tion much improved by the same plan, observing 

 this slight difference, viz. the insertion of nine in- 

 stead of eight nails, and the extra nail to be driven 

 towards the inside quarter. 



Gentlemen, notwithstanding the profound respect 

 which I entertain for Mr. Coleman, viewing him as 

 a teacher of the veterinary art, unequalled perhaps 

 in Europe, I have occasion to differ in opinion 

 with this high authority, respecting the descent of 

 the sole. Mr. C. lays great stress, both in his 

 Treatise on the Foot and in his Lectures, on the 

 difference in the degree of descent of various parts 

 of the sole, ascribing very great movement to that 

 portion of sole towards the heal or seat of corn ; 

 whilst he contends there is little or no descent of 

 sole towards the toe. Hence it appears, that Mr. 

 Coleman's tlieory of the yielding of the coirin bone 

 obliquely backwards and downwards, the descent 



