Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . pon the anterior andlateral parts of the foot readily set up congestion or in-flammation of the vascular textures uniting the hoof tothe bone within, and flat or convex soles, deformedwall, lameness, and partial or total inefficiency was theresult. This will be rendered more apparent, perhaps, if weshow a section of the anterior portion of a foot pared tothumb-springing, and shod with an ordinary shoe(fig. 204). This most injurious fashion ofcutting away the sole and frog, anddeeply notching the heels, is stilllargely in
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . pon the anterior andlateral parts of the foot readily set up congestion or in-flammation of the vascular textures uniting the hoof tothe bone within, and flat or convex soles, deformedwall, lameness, and partial or total inefficiency was theresult. This will be rendered more apparent, perhaps, if weshow a section of the anterior portion of a foot pared tothumb-springing, and shod with an ordinary shoe(fig. 204). This most injurious fashion ofcutting away the sole and frog, anddeeply notching the heels, is stilllargely in vogue in Britain; thoughin the army it has been for manyyears abolished, and the results of arational method of shoeing are most %. 204 marked in the diminution of foot-lameness, and themaintenance of the hoofs in a natural and serviceablecondition. So far as the integrity of the foot is concerned, therecan scarcely be any doubt that the primitive farriery ofthe early races of Gaul and Britain was preferable to thatof modern days, when this excessive mutilation of the. 632 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. hoof is practised. Although protecting the horses footfrom exposure to undue wear, and from the injuries whichwould befall it if made to undergo hardships with which itwas not naturally designed to contend, yet, unless mostjudiciously employed, much that belongs to shoeing is aserious evil; and the skill of man ought therefore to bedirected to the diminution or suppression of those preju-dicial tendencies. For example, the employment of nailsto fasten on the shoe, however carefully managed, is to acertain extent a source of injury to the hoof; but whenused indiscreetly, is positively ruinous to the invention yet proposed has succeeded in retaining theshoe so firmly as nails, and the many failures that haveresulted when other fastenings have been tried, leads tothe belief that no means at once so convenient and soefficacious will readily be substituted for them. Again,
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