Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . rms have been discovered, accompanied byRoman remains of every description, as well as the ordin-ary nailed horse-shoe. In the first report from ProfessorNamur, amongst other relics, he mentions having dugup several ordinary horse-shoes, and beside them werefive pathological shoes. The latter are described as havingtheir base oval, with a hole in the middle, and on eachside towards the front a clip 2,3 inches high, endingin a hook-like process. Behind was a prolongation, alsoterminating in a hook. These strange articles
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . rms have been discovered, accompanied byRoman remains of every description, as well as the ordin-ary nailed horse-shoe. In the first report from ProfessorNamur, amongst other relics, he mentions having dugup several ordinary horse-shoes, and beside them werefive pathological shoes. The latter are described as havingtheir base oval, with a hole in the middle, and on eachside towards the front a clip 2,3 inches high, endingin a hook-like process. Behind was a prolongation, alsoterminating in a hook. These strange articles were sub- Public, de la Soc. pour le Recher. des Monumens Luxembourg,vol. vii. DISCOVERIES AT DALHEIM. 303 mitted to veterinary surgeon Fischer, of Cessingen, in1851, who, on examining them, gave it as his opinionthat they were hippopodes pathologiques, intended toprotect and cure hoofs too much worn, through defaultof shoeing. This supposed sandal and its mode ofattachment were delineated as in the accompanyingfigures (figs. 112, 113). In 1852-3, the excavations being.
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