The gentleman's farriery : or, a practical treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on the subject have been consulted, and MLa Fosse's method of trepanning glandered horses is particularly considered and improved : Also a new method of nicking horses is recommended; with a copper-plate and description of the machine ... . the furface, how inconvenientfoever it may be in other refpeds -, thoughk mull: be confefled, from our method offlioeing race horfes, where the whole footcomes into immediate conta6t with theground, notwithftanding the courfe theyj\3w over is often very
The gentleman's farriery : or, a practical treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on the subject have been consulted, and MLa Fosse's method of trepanning glandered horses is particularly considered and improved : Also a new method of nicking horses is recommended; with a copper-plate and description of the machine ... . the furface, how inconvenientfoever it may be in other refpeds -, thoughk mull: be confefled, from our method offlioeing race horfes, where the whole footcomes into immediate conta6t with theground, notwithftanding the courfe theyj\3w over is often very flippery, yet theyfcldonifall. Tnoogh But though this method may not bei>mot ge- |-Q generally adopted by us, in its utmofth^re^yei ^^ttnt,* for the reafons above given;has arcat as well as from the difl^srent texture ofme:!;. horfes Reflexions cnjhoelng HORSES. 365 horfes feet, which in fome will alwaysdemand a particular method of fhoeingiyet it urvdoubtedly may fuit many horles,and many diftvrerit parts of the kingdom ;and this particular advantage every onemay reap from it, viz, to pare away aslittle of the fole and frog, as poffible,even in the old method of (hoeing : themany inconveniencies of which, we ap-prehend, have been fufficiently pointedout, and amply explained \ and this means, be in a great meafux^© EX PL A- [ 366 ] EXPLANATION of theAnatomical FIGURES. Plate the Fir ft. TH E firft figure reprefents the bot-tom of a horfes foot.^, a^ a^ is the horny fole.^, the frog. 2. The ^c^/towards its lower edge,called by the author the wall of the foot* Figure the fecond, fhews the hornyIble ^, raifed from the flcfliy fole c^ r, r,round which is the enchannelled flefli, in the fulcus of the inner furfaceof the hoof, 5, the horny part of whichis foft and white. Figure the third reprefents the underpart of the flelhy fole r, raifed from thefoot-bone * d^ d, d, g, the coveringor(hQZthoi tht^endo-Achi/les. 2. The car-tilage. 6. The edge of the fl
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