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menced regular walking exercise, and she daily improved. 
After fourteen days there was no lameness, but still short 
action. I thereupon gave the mare another week’s walking 
exercise, at the expiration of which I drove her a short 
turn of five miles, which she did quite well, and free from 
lameness. For three months I kept the saw-cuts open to 
the coronet, and continued the bar shoes, keeping the mare 
at exercise, and giving her occasionally a drive. She never 
liked the bar shoes, and I was glad when I could discon- 
tinue them, which I did in the fourth month When shod 
with the usual shoes the complete success of the treatment 
was shown. I have now had her going with the ordinary 
shoes for the past two or three months, and the improve- 
ment in the shape of the feet is very marked; there is 
no lameness; the mare is free in movement, fast, and 
spirited, whereas previously she was quite the reverse, and 
almost unfit to drive.’* 
This method, though but recently introduced to the 
English veterinary surgeon, is by no means new. Accord- 
ing to Zundel, it was recently made known on the Conti- 
nent by Weber, but was previously known and mentioned 
by Lagueriniere, Brognier, and Hurtrel d’Arboval. 
When the grooving is in a horizontal direction, a single 
incision is sufficient. This is made ? inch below the 
coronary margin of the wall, and parallel with it, extend- 
ing from the point of the heel for 2 or 3 inches in a forward 
direction. As in the previous method, a bar shoe is applied, 
and the animal daily exercised. Thus separated from the 
fixed and contracted portion of the wall below, the more 
elastic coronet under pressure of the body-weight com- 
mences to bulge. The bulging is of such an extent as to 
cause the new growing hoof from the top to considerably 
overhang the contracted portion below, and cure of the 
condition results from the newly -expanded wall above 
growing down in a normal direction. 
This consideration of contracted heels may be concluded 
by drawing attention to the advisability of always main- 
* W.S. Adams, M.R.C.V.S., Veterinary Journal, vol, xxx., p. 19. 
