A Text-Book of Horseshoeing, for Horseshoers and Veterinarians

FOR Horseshoers and Veterinarians
BY A. LUNGWITZ
FORMER MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SAXON VETERINARY COMMISSION, LATE INSTRUCTOR IN THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF HORSESHOEING, AND DIRECTOR OF THE SHOEING SCHOOL OF THE ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE IN DRESDEN, GERMANY
AND JOHN W. ADAMS
PROFESSOR OF SURGERY AND OBSTETRICS, AND LECTURER ON SHOEING IN THE VETERINARY SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
ELEVENTH EDITION
WITH TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE ILLUSTRATIONS
PHILADELPHIA & LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
Copyright, 1897, by J. B. Lippincott Company. Copyright, 1904, by J. B. Lippincott Company. Copyright, 1913, by J. B. Lippincott Company.
The inauguration of the law requiring horseshoers to be examined emphasizes the need of a brief and easily understood text-book on theoretical and practical horseshoeing. At the request of the Royal Veterinary Commission , in charge of the Royal Veterinary School in Dresden, and many interested individuals, I have attempted to meet this need by condensing within the narrowest possible limits all that is essential to the horseshoer in the practice of his profession. The subject-matter has been cast into a logically arranged course of instruction; all that is superfluous and is found only in exhaustive treatises on shoeing has been omitted.
In order to make this elementary text-book more easy to understand, numerous instructive illustrations have been incorporated, which were taken partly from “Der Fuss des Pferdes,” by Leisering & Hartmann, fifth edition, Dresden, 1882; partly from the journal Der Hufschmied , and partly from drawings made specially for this work.