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ing the contact of the foot with the damp ground, gives also 
very favorable results.” 
M. Weber writes: “ When I treat contraction of both heels 
I have the foot well pared, the heels and barres lowered away, 
and the frog remaining perfectly intact. I make a lissure on the 
wall at the outer and inner toe, and another between this and 
the heel at equal distance. • I put on a bar shoe, and arrange 
everything to have it vesting upon the frog. When this organ 
is well developed, it is an easy thing to do ; but if it is atrophied, 
I add to the bar of the shoe pieces of leather. * * * It is 
important to have the animal do slow work. * * * * ” 
M. Meguin, speaking of the advantages of the Charlier’s shoe, 
which more than any other “ allows to the foot all its integrity, 
specially in its inferior and posterior parts,” insists upon the ex¬ 
cellent results obtained by the use of the short branch shoe. 
“ * * * * It is the best means at our disposition to treat 
contraction of the feet. Thus the heels and frog, left entire, 
and brought in contact with the ground, regain by exercise, by 
a rational gymnastic, their strength and their size.” * * * 
M. Lafosse says, that if the unilateral shoe of Turner “ has 
given some good results, it is only because its author recom¬ 
mended the conservation of the frog and of the bars so as to keep 
them strong and resisting, ” 
We have obtained numerous cures by throwing upon the frog, 
through the medium of the bar shoe alone or combined with 
gutta-percha, in the treatment of contraction, simple or compli¬ 
cated with quarter-crack, corn, <fcc., and our results in treating 
hoof-bound, well developed, have so far proved very satisfactory. 
To resume once more, we will say that the plantar cushion be¬ 
comes atrophied when it ceases to receive the entire sum of the 
pressions it receives in a physiological condition, and that the 
atrophy has for direct and logical consequence, the contraction of 
the corresponding regions of the wall, the change of the direction 
of the branches of the sole and of the atrophy of the frog—all 
lesions which together constitute what is called hoof-bound 
(encasteliire), 
(To he continuedl). 
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