. The Street railway journal . Fig. 1. CentennialExhibition. HORSES FEET These drawings show how many horses are made lame and permanently in-jured by the use of the cold cut and sheared-pointed Nails. This process ofmanufacture produces lamination, causing the iron to form in layers, and whendriven into the foot, the horny fibers of which the hoof Is composed cause thenail to separate at the point, ana one portion passes into the foot. No. 4 represents one of these nails which was driven Into the hoof and sliv-ered In driving, one thin blade passing Into the quick or sensitiv
. The Street railway journal . Fig. 1. CentennialExhibition. HORSES FEET These drawings show how many horses are made lame and permanently in-jured by the use of the cold cut and sheared-pointed Nails. This process ofmanufacture produces lamination, causing the iron to form in layers, and whendriven into the foot, the horny fibers of which the hoof Is composed cause thenail to separate at the point, ana one portion passes into the foot. No. 4 represents one of these nails which was driven Into the hoof and sliv-ered In driving, one thin blade passing Into the quick or sensitive sole; No. 5the thick blaoe of the nail passed out of the wall of the hoof for clinching .After a few days the horse was returned lame, and upon the removal of the shoe,a nail similar to the above was broken off, leaving the sliver In the foot: lock-jaw ensued, from which the horse died. Upon dissecting the foot a portion ofthe nail was found to have penetrated through the coffin bone, as seen in Fig. 2,letter A, thus sacrificing the life of a valuab
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