REMARKS ON THE GOODENOUGH SHOE. 85 
ment^ there need be little hesitation in resorting to it. I 
would certainly rather prefer M. Bouley's turpentine frictions 
to induce movement, than flogging the unfortunate creature 
with a whip, or other instrument of torture, which cer¬ 
tainly looks bad in the hands of one whose duty it is to dimi¬ 
nish animal suffering. 
The application of special shoes to the feet, during their 
acutely inflamed state, I have never tried, nor do I think I 
would be inclined to do so. The act of nailing on shoes, 
burthening the crust, and compressing it by nails, does not 
appear to be indicated or justified. Bemoving the lower 
margin of the wall from pressure, and throwing the weight 
entirely on the sole and frog—parts little, if at all, impli¬ 
cated—seems a rational mode of procedure, and the success 
attending it, in my experience, is a proof of its utility. 
By leaving the soles and frogs unpared and in their 
natural condition, and allowing them to sustain a portion of 
the weight and strain by proper shoeing, I am confident 
laminitis would be a much rarer disease than it now is; and 
even feet already deformed can be restored to nearly, if not 
quite, their pristine condition by the same conservative 
management. It is to be hoped that the day is not far dis¬ 
tant when the reasonableness of this management will be 
generally recognised, and the destructive drawing knife and 
its equally damaging congener—the sole-bevelled shoe, bo 
greatly limited. AVhen it arrives we will have less to do with 
navicularthritis, laminitis, contracted heels, and other ab¬ 
normal conditions of that most important and beautiful organ 
—the horse’s foot. 
REMARKS ON THE GOODENOUGH SHOE. 
By J. C. Broad, M.R.C.V.S., Market Street, Paddington. 
Considerable discussion has lately taken place respect¬ 
ing the merits of a new kind of horseshoe, a short time since 
introduced into this country. It is called the Goodenough” 
Patent Horseshoe, and it also bears the somewhat sensa¬ 
tional name of the Humane shoe. In order to make myself 
fully acquainted with the principle of the shoe, the mode of 
its application, and other particulars which would enable me 
to form an impartial judgment as to the real merits of the 
new system, I paid several visits to the forge at Chelsea, 
where "a large number of the horses belonging to the London 
