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are driven to ask the question, what better mode of shoeing 
horses can be devised ? ” 
The next chapter, the XVIth, treats of pathological shoes , 
alias shoes destined for diseased feet. 
“ Of many shoes contrived and recommended for such 
purposes, the number really useful is reduced to four, viz. 
the three-quarter shoe; the shoe for punctured or diseased 
sole ; the shoe with a plate to cover the sole, partially or 
completely, which may be made with a hinge, or else for the 
plate to slide ; and (fourthly) the bar-shoe.” 
Besides enumerating several varieties of these four ad- 
mittedly useful pathological shoes, many others of doubted 
or denied utility are added to them, making on the whole 
a total number of shoes for diseased feet calculated hardly 
less to excite our risible faculties than our feelings of sur- 
prise, how human invention could be stretched to such a 
point ! 
Nor do we make an end of divers kinds of shoes here. 
For, in the following, the XVI Ith chapter, we have descrip- 
tions of “ shoes designed to remedy deformities of the foot;” 
shoes with much cover, with half-cover, with little and 
with irregular cover; shoes for protecting corns; shoes 
regularly and irregularly punched ; shoes to fit all feet, either 
with or without hinges ; shoes without nails. 
Added to which comes, in the XVIIIth chapter, “ shoes 
designed to remedy defects in the aplomb ,” or standing of the 
horse. 
Quitting the subject of horse-shoes, en verite , we come to 
the chapter (XXIV) treating “of the means employed to 
subject horses to the operation of shoeing.” According as 
they are timid, unruly, or refractory, will horses require 
difference of treatment ; the means of restraint last to be 
resorted to being severally, the halter of constraint; the 
twitch ; the barnacles, either in iron or wood ; the side-line ; 
suspension in slings ; casting. 
Succeeding this is a chapter (XXV) “ on the diseases of 
the foot resulting from shoeing.” “These may be divided 
into such as require time for development, and when they do 
become apparent, prove to have their seat in the superior 
