Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . first months of hismethod of shoeing; this, he says, is the dead liorn whichis being removed to give place to a good secretion aselastic as it is resisting, and in this case it may be useful toaid nature, by carefully excising these flakes, which, ifallowed to project, would produce the effects of a foreignbody. In this, I think, he is mistaken, as in my experi- LAFOSSE AND CHARLIERS METHODS. 589 ments with this system of shoeing, if it may be so named,I have always found every particle of horn useful, andnever could dis
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . first months of hismethod of shoeing; this, he says, is the dead liorn whichis being removed to give place to a good secretion aselastic as it is resisting, and in this case it may be useful toaid nature, by carefully excising these flakes, which, ifallowed to project, would produce the effects of a foreignbody. In this, I think, he is mistaken, as in my experi- LAFOSSE AND CHARLIERS METHODS. 589 ments with this system of shoeing, if it may be so named,I have always found every particle of horn useful, andnever could discover that it caused any inconvenience. At first this important modification of the ordinarymode of arming the hoof gave rise to very animated dis-cussions. It was argued that it possessed very little novelty,and that it was but a slight improvement, or otherwise,on Lafosses imbedded shoe. There is certainly notmuch difference if one compares a section of the twomethods. Lafosses we see in figure 197, and Charliersin figure 198. The shoe of the first-named veterinarian. fig. 197 fig. 19S was lighter and narrower, and lay in a space between thesole and crust; whereas Charliers shoe rested on the crustalone, and was thicker, a trifle wider, and much heavier. Then grave doubts were entertained as to the amountof injury likely to be inflicted by a rim of iron placed sonear the sensitive and vascular parts of the foot. Toimbed the thick shoe, so that a portion of the sole mightreach the ground, required the removal of so large a pieceof the crust, that the union between it and the sole wasseriously threatened; the shoe being thicker than thelatter, it will be easily seen that to incrust it thoroughlya most extensive chasm had to be made around the mar-gin of the sole, whose attachment with the crust wastherefore greatly weakened. This objection appears to have 590 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. forced itself so strongly on M. Charlier, that only partialincrustation was resorted to i
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