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AN ACCOUNT OF THE MORSE-SANDAL. 
I would add, in the metropolis; and, indeed, in every part of 
the kingdom putting down assemblies for fighting dog's. 
Do you think it would tend to cheek the spread of canine 
madness if dogs were kept at home, and confined during the 
prevalence of the disease ?—Certainly ; because then they would 
not be exposed to infection. 
Did an instance ever occur of a person complaining of the bite 
of a dog*, the dog w as brought to you, and you found the dog 
did not die, but that the man was affected with hydrophobia, 
and died?—No. 
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AN ACCOUNT OF THE HORSE-SANDAL, OR 
REMOVEABLE HORSE-SHOE, 
INVENTED BY MR. PERCIVALL, 
(Read by bim at tbe Veterinary Medical Society, Dec. 1 , 1830.) 
To attach a shoe (or any thing that shall answer the purpose 
of one) to the foot of the horse w ithout the aid of nails, or by 
such means and in such manner as shall render it both service¬ 
able to the animal, and removeable by and at the pleasure of 
his rider, has long been, among the followers of the chase, a thing 
most desirable to be accomplished. The difficulties presenting 
themselves, however, in this field of experiment, have proved 
such as not only to render abortive all hitherto-made trials, but, 
for some years past, to deter any others from being made at all. 
The natural shape of the horse’s foot is such as to render it very 
unsuitable for the attachment of any sort of bandage or ligature; 
added to which, it is a part possessing .inward self-motion, and 
consequent power of variation of shape and volume: two circum¬ 
stances which (connected with the superincumbent weight the 
foot has to support, as well as to move with activity under) w 7 ill 
be found to oppose considerable difficulties in the w-ay of any 
one who may engage in an undertaking of this description. 
In submitting the present invention tp the public, rather than 
risk any recommendation of it that may appear in the light of 
undue praise, I shall send it forth “ with all its imperfections on 
its head;” simply setting down such facts as can be readily 
proved or attested, and, with the possession of them, leaving 
others to judge to what extent and in what w 7 ays it may be 
rendered most useful. 
With a sandal well fitted and properly secured upon the foot, 
a horse will be prepared to perform the same as though he were 
