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animal by selling him for about $25, which was all any one 
would be likely to give for him with hardly three legs to 
stand on. 
It was decided immediately to let me take charge of the 
case, so he was led into the shoeing shop, where I had the 
hoof trimmed as follows : From the coronet about half way 
to the toe the horn grew in narrow circles, gradually increas¬ 
ing toward the heels ; below this at the toe the horn pro¬ 
jected away from the coffin-bone, the toe of which had crum¬ 
bled away. The circles at the coronet in front, and the pro¬ 
jecting horn lower down, were all rasped and cut away till 
the part looked more like its natural shape. This left the 
heels high and the coffin-bone' in the position of an upright 
wedge, the diseased toe pointing to the sole in front of the 
frog where the part was settled down. To correct this posi¬ 
tion of the coffin-bone the commissures were pared out and 
the heels opened and lowered ; after this the wall was thinned 
at the heels and wherever else it could be done without inter¬ 
fering with the nailing on of the shoe as early as possible. 
Above the nail holes a saw was used to cut the wall in line 
with the horn fibres; this instantly freed and limbered the 
crowding wall, and yet left enough hoof to nail to, which the 
rasp would have taken away. The saw is the same formerly 
used for “ diamonding ” the wall in cases of ringbone, side 
bones, enlarged cartilages, etc., cases where the hoof is 
always contracted. After carefully adjusting the hoof so as 
to set the coffin-bone at an angle which would relieve the 
crowding of the pyramidal process and adjacent coffin-bone 
against the horn in front by allowing the wings of the coffin- 
bone to settle between the hoof heels, a shoe was fitted as 
follows : 
A plain, light shoe with a fairly wide web was taken, and 
from the toe to the second nail holes was hammered out thin, 
and then rolled up in front of the foot to protect the part 
which the disease had denuded of its horny protection from 
coming accidentally in contact with the ground. Side lips 
or clips were turned up at each side to relieve some of the 
strain from the nails, and the nail holes were punched so as 
