182 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 % 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 3 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.*. 
Fic. 74.—THE CHANGES IN Form or a Contracted Foot TREATED 
WITH SmITH’s Expansion SHOE. : 
In 1898, 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. D. McLaren, M.R.C.V.S., writes:{ ‘I resolved to try 
* Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics, vol. v., 
p. 100. 
+ Veterinary Record, vol. vi., p. 148. 
£ Tbid., vol. vi., p. 188. 
