. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . time perceptibly diminishin size. See Figs. 505, 506, showing theefiectof acute or chronicinflammation in causing severe and rapid contraction. The results of these causes, separately or combined, are suffi-cient to ruin even the best of feet in a short time. But all the ef-forts heretofore made for the cure of contraction seem to have beensimply to spread the heels open, which failed of making a cure onaccount of the crude way in which it was done, regardless ofbringing about a natural condition of circulation, whereby healthytissue could be gr
. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . time perceptibly diminishin size. See Figs. 505, 506, showing theefiectof acute or chronicinflammation in causing severe and rapid contraction. The results of these causes, separately or combined, are suffi-cient to ruin even the best of feet in a short time. But all the ef-forts heretofore made for the cure of contraction seem to have beensimply to spread the heels open, which failed of making a cure onaccount of the crude way in which it was done, regardless ofbringing about a natural condition of circulation, whereby healthytissue could be grown. * I would remark here that keeping horses in stalls so narrow that they aregreatly restricted from moving more than a few feet, and with floor largely inclinedbackward, is not only so exceedingly hard on the feet as to be a cause of fever andcontraction, but so uncomfortable for the horse, that every humane owner shoulddo what he can to remedy the difllculty. Particular reference to this will be foundunder the head of Stabling. SHOEmG. 677. Contraction may be divided into three different classes : general compression or drawing in of the wall upon the vascu-lar structure. 2. When but one orboth quarters are drawn in. the heels are curled ra, orpushed forward under the the prevention and cure ofcontraction must depend upon re-moving excess of horn, frog-pressure,freedom of the quarters, or, if nec-essary, opening them mechanicallyas desired, and upon moisture. Anyof these conditions lacking, theremust in serious cases be partial orentire failure, no matter what themeans or methods used. If the feetcould have conditions that wouldafford natural moisture, and the Fig. 505.—The foot after the inflam-mation subsided, growing downnearly a quarter of an Inchlarger. shoes made so thin that the frog-and sole could have reasonable con-tact with the ground, the quartersso free that they could expand withthe growth of the feet, there couldbe but little if any c
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