Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . geons who haveexamined these shoes. M, Namur then quotes the evi-dence of Fischer, who alludes to the writer in the UnitedService Gazette we have already noticed, in saying:These shoes present much resemblance with the ancientshoes of Lycia, &c.: showing how error is perpetuatedand spread. We have no evidence to prove that horse-shoes were ever worn in Lycia ; the resemblance of theTriquetra on a Lycian coin, to a shoe, was merely thefancy of a writer full of surmises and conjectures. Namur continues : The use of shoes a
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . geons who haveexamined these shoes. M, Namur then quotes the evi-dence of Fischer, who alludes to the writer in the UnitedService Gazette we have already noticed, in saying:These shoes present much resemblance with the ancientshoes of Lycia, &c.: showing how error is perpetuatedand spread. We have no evidence to prove that horse-shoes were ever worn in Lycia ; the resemblance of theTriquetra on a Lycian coin, to a shoe, was merely thefancy of a writer full of surmises and conjectures. Namur continues : The use of shoes and straps (Jersa courroies) is evidently much anterior to that of thenailed shoes. Then reference is made to the new dis-covery. The excavations at Dalheim in 1854-5 havefurnished two additional specimens. One, with clips,differs from those I have described, in that there is nohook behind. There is only a rebord pierced with twoholes, in which are two oxidized nails with flat heads (). The other specimen differs most essentially from PATHOLOGICylL SHOES. 305. the form generally known. It has also a base of an ovalform, without an open-ing in the middle. Thetwo lateral clips towardsthe anterior part, insteadof being separate andterminated by ears, arebrought together andunited into a point whichis bent towards the front in a hook or ear projecting abovethe anterior convex border of the shoe. This form ap-pears altogether new, and M. Fischer has never seen onelike it in the veterinary schools of Alfort, or elsewhere(fig. 116). Professor Defays, of Brussels, has rehabilitatedfig. 112, and attach-ed it to a horseslimb. It will beobserved that thefastening for thestrap at the heel israther awkwardlyplaced, and so arranged that no horse could walk with , in describing those of the first and secondclass, previously discovered, remarks that they were notattached by means of nails, but by straps or the fer was found to be adapted to the size of aparticular fo
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