. Fig. 119.—Seated Rocker Bar Shoe (Broad's) for Treatment of Laminitis. indicated, he obtains the greatest ease. It also minimizes to some extent the effects of concussion. With forced exercise, as practised by Mr. Broad, this shoe is first applied, and the animal afterwards made to walk upon soft ground, or even upon the roadway, for a half an hour to an hour and a half three times a day. For our own part, we consider the shoe to be almost if not quite superfluous, so far as its influence upon the progress of the disease is concerned. We therefore dis- pense with it, and have the animal exer
. Fig. 119.—Seated Rocker Bar Shoe (Broad's) for Treatment of Laminitis. indicated, he obtains the greatest ease. It also minimizes to some extent the effects of concussion. With forced exercise, as practised by Mr. Broad, this shoe is first applied, and the animal afterwards made to walk upon soft ground, or even upon the roadway, for a half an hour to an hour and a half three times a day. For our own part, we consider the shoe to be almost if not quite superfluous, so far as its influence upon the progress of the disease is concerned. We therefore dis- pense with it, and have the animal exercised in his ordinary shoes. To do this, the patient has sometimes to be severely flogged into taking the first few steps. After that progress gradually becomes easier. It has been said to be cruel. In so far as we knowingly, and of set purpose, occasion the animal pain, cruel it
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