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THE VETERINARIAN, JUNE ], 1834 . 
No quid falsi diccrc audcat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
MR. FRIEND’S NEW HORSESHOE. 
This shoe (of which an illustrated description was given by 
Mr. Friend in the last number of The Veterinarian) must 
be so fresh in our readers’ minds, that in the account we are about 
to offer of its apparent utility there cannot exist the slightest 
necessity to recur either to its construction or mode of application. 
Its professed object is “frog pressure:” a subject on which we 
shall avail ourselves of the present opportunity to offer a few 
cursory remarks, prior to giving our opinion on the shoe itself. 
Pressure to the Frog is the application of a doctrine 
that originated with the celebrated French farrier, La Fosse, 
whose notion was, that such was requisite, not only to preserve 
the foot in health, but to save the flexor tendon, above it, from 
undue stretch and consequent strain or rupture. Since La 
Fosse’s time, although the principle on which he acted has been 
rejected, the practice has met with a zealous advocate and sup¬ 
porter in our present Professor at the College. No person can 
have read the Professor’s work on the foot, or ever listened to his 
lectures on the same, without being impressed with the absolute 
and indispensable necessity of pressure to the frog, as well for 
the healthy condition of the organ itself, as for the due execution 
of that important part it has to perform in the economy of the 
foot. La Fosse, for the purpose, presented us with a very useful 
and effectual form of shoe—the half-moon shoe or tip ; to which 
our Professor lias added some three or four other novelties and 
contrivances, some of which he has estimated so highly as to 
make them the subjects of patents. Professed admirer and 
espouser, as Mr. Coleman has ever declared himself to be, of 
pressure to the frog, it becomes no matter of surprise that the 
doctrine should have been so extensively propagated throughout 
the profession, and should have found so many adherents as we 
iind there arc, especially among its junior branches. We believe, 
