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SHOEING. 



The half-moon shoe, or tip, by Lafosse, referred to hereafter, is 

 claimed to cure corns. Caesar Fiaschi, of the sixteenth century, 



gives a figure of a three-quarter shoe, 

 almost the same form as that of Bracy 

 Clark's, for this trouble. White's work, 

 published in 1820, says : — 



The only thing to be done is to take off the shoe, 

 and turn the horse out to grass. In slight cases, 

 however, this may not be absolutely necessary, 

 and is often- inconvenient, but it is by far the 

 best plan, and I may add, perhaps the only effectual 

 one, when a radical cure is desired. 



Fig. 552. — French Convex Shoe. 



Weak Heels. 



If from any cause there has been much 

 fever in the feet for some time, in conse- 

 quence of being driven on hard roads, or being partially foundered, 

 there will be diminished supply of horn, so that the wall will not 

 only grow slower, but thinner. (See reference to inflammation and 

 Figs. 555, 556.) 



Sometimes the heels are cut down so closely that should the 

 shoe work loose, and wear or break down the quarters, it would be 



Fig. 553.— Bracy Clark's Convex Shoe. 

 From his Book Published in 1819. 



Fig. 554.— Ordinary Convex Shoe. 



easy to produce a weak, low condition of the heels. This may cause 

 a great deal of trouble, on account of the slowness with which the 

 horn grows to supply the increased wear. This morbid condition of 



