INDEX

Apprentice, [14]
Arteries, [41]
Articulations, [21]
Balanced hoof, [101]
Balling with snow, [149]
Bar-shoe, uses of, [164]
Bare foot, preparing the hoof, [102]
Bars, [51]
dressing, [99]
Base-narrow position, [63], [68]
Base-wide position, [63], [68]
Beaked shoe, [184]
Bear-foot, [72]
Bearing-surface of shoes, [117], [127]
Blood-vessels, [41]
Bow-legged position, [64]
Buttress, [100]
Calf-kneed, [66]
Calk-wound, [173]
Camped behind, [68]
in front, [66]
Cannon bone, [20], [21]
Carpus, [20]
Cartilages, lateral, [39]
Cast iron, [103]
shoes, [132]
Chadwick spring, [187]
Clefts, [203]
Clinch cutter, [97]
Clinching, [131]
Clips, [111]
Close-nailing, burning, [166]
Contracted hoof, [185]
sole, [190]
Corn, chronic, [175]
dry, [174]
suppurating, [174]
Corns, [174]
treatment, [176]
Coronary band, [47]
joint, [31]
ligaments, [31]
Cover-plate shoe, [173]
Cow-hocked, [68]
Cracks, [195]
coronary and bar, [196], [202]
plantar, [202]
Crest, semilunar, [27]
Crooked hoof, [192]
Cross-firing, [140]
Defay’s shoe, [187]
Diseases of hoof, [165]
Dressing the hoof, [98]
Driving the shoe, [130]
Drop-forged shoes, [132]
Dropped sole, [178], [182], [183]
Elastic parts of foot, [38]
Examination before shoeing, [90]
Feet, forms of, [69]
Femur, [20]
Fetlock, ligaments of, [29]
joint, [28]
Fiber shoes, [134]
Fibula, [20]
Flat hoof, [182]
Fleshy frog, [49]
sole, [49]
wall, [48]
Flight of hoofs, [72], [75]
Foot, articulations of, [28]
bones of, [24]
Foot-axis, [70]
relation to sole, [100]
straight and broken, [101]
Forging, [138]
Founder, [177]
dressing hoof, [179]
shoeing, [180]
Frog, [57]
dressing, [99]
Front shoe, making, [105]
Frost-nails, [146]
Full hoof, [183]
Fullering, [109]
hammer, [104]
Gathered nail, [170]
Hair-skin, [44]
Head, bones of, [17]
Heavy draught horses, shoeing, [125]
Heel-calks, [112]
always sharp, [154]
Heels, inflammation of, [176]
Hind shoe, making, [107]
Hock, [21]
Hollow wall, [205]
Hoof, [50]
benefits of movements within, [89]
crooked, [84]
growth of, [82]
healthy, [81]
irregular growth, [83]
knife, [98]
ointments, [159], [160]
physiological movements of, [86]
wear against shoe, [86]
wear of, [82]
Hoof-skin, [45]
Hoofs, care of unshod, [157]
Hoofs, forms of, [77], [80]
of colts, care of, [157]
Horn, minute structure of, [58]
qualities of, [59]
tumor, [181]
Horseshoeing, object of, [13]
schools, [15]
Horseshoer, requisites of, [14]
Humerus, [19]
Hunters, shoeing, [123]
Interfering, [142]
Iron for horseshoes, [103]
Joints, free, hinge, and pivot, [22]
Keraphyllocele, [181]
Knee-sprung, [67]
Laminitis, [177]
Leather sole, [164]
Ligaments, [21]
Limbs, standing positions, [62]
Loose wall, [204]
Low-jointed, [66]
Mucous bursæ, [35]
Mule shoes, [207]
Muscles, [22]
Nail-holes, [110]
Nailing, [166]
causes of, [167]
examination and treatment, [167], [168]
Nails, [128]
Navicular bone, [28]
Nerves, [44]
Nippers, [99]
Normal position, [62], [64], [67], [69]
Os pedis, [26]
Ox shoes, [208]
Oxen, securing feet, [209]
Pacers, shoeing, [124]
Pads, rubber, [135]
Pastern, long, [25]
short, [26]
Patella, [20]
Pedal joint, [31]
ligaments, [31]
Peg-calks, [150]
Peg toe-calks, [152]
Pelvis, [19]
Periople, [53]
Perioplic band, [47]
Periosteum, [21]
Pigeon-toed position, [64]
Pincers, [97]
Plantar cushion, [40]
Pododerm, [45]
Pododermatitis, symptoms of, [161]
treatment of, [163]
Podophyllous tissue, [48]
Podometer, [105]
Pricking, direct nailing, [166]
Pritchel, [105]
Protective organs of foot, [44]
Punch, [105]
Quarter-crack, [200]
Quarters, contraction of, [186]
Radius, [20]
Raising feet in shoeing, [92]
Removing shoes, [97]
Rolled toe, [118]
Rope shoes, [133]
Rubber shoes, [134]
Runners, [123]
Saddle-horses, shoeing, [122]
Scapula, [19]
Screw heel-calks, [148]
Seedy-toe, [178]
Sesamoid bones, [25]
ligaments, [29-31]
Sharp toe- and heel-calks, [146]
Shod hoofs, care of, [159]
Shoe, choosing the, [116]
for acute-angled hoof, [114], [120]
for base-narrow hoof, [114], [121]
for base-wide hoof, [114], [121]
for narrow hoof, [115], [121]
for regular hoof, [114], [120]
for stumpy hoof, [114], [120]
for wide hoof, [115], [121]
parts of, [103]
wear of, [84]
weight of, [116]
Shoeing defective hoofs, [161]
Shoes, fitting, [118]
general properties, [107]
machine, [132]
making, [103], [105]
nailing, [128]
removing old, [97]
shaping and fitting, [117], [120]
special properties, [114]
Sickle-hock, [68]
Side-bone, [194]
Sole, [55]
contraction of, [189]
Spinal column, [17]
Splint-bones, [20]
shoe, [172]
Standing under, [66]
Station of rest, [65]
Steel, [103]
Stocks, for horses, [95]
for oxen, [209]
Stifle-joint, [20]
Stilt-foot, [184]
Street-nail, [170]
Stride, height of, [75]
length of, [75]
Stumpy hoof, [184]
Suspensory ligament, [29]
altering tension of, [36-38]
Synovia, [21]
Tendon, anterior extensor, [32]
deep flexor, [33]
lateral extensor, [32]
sheaths, [35]
superficial flexor, [33]
Tendons, [24]
Tension of tendon, altering, [36]
Thorax, [18]
Thrush, [206]
Tibia, [20]
Toe- and heel-calks, [112]
Toe-calk, blunt, [113]
half-sharp, [113]
sharp, [112]
Toe-crack, [197]
Tools for making shoes, [104]
Tread, [173]
Trotters, shoeing, [124]
Trunk, [17]
Tubbing and stopping, [159]
Ulna, [20]
Vachette hook, [199]
Veins, [43]
Velvety frog, [49]
sole, [49]
Wall, [51]
dressing, [99]
height of, [52]
leafy layer, [53]
protective layer, [53]
slant of, [52]
thickness of, [53]
Weight, influence of, [75]
Weights, side and toe, [77]
White line, [56]
Wide hoofs, contraction of, [189]
Wry hoof, [193]

Footnotes:

[1] In order to see the length, thickness, and abundance of the villi of the pododerm, place the foot deprived of its hoof in a clear glass jar and cover it with water, renewing the latter until it is no longer tinged with blood.

[2] In station of rest, the normal position of a fore-leg, as seen from the side, is somewhat different. The station of rest is the position that is maintained with the least possible muscular effort. With gradual muscular relaxation the head and neck sink to a point somewhat below the line of the back, the top of the shoulder-blade sinks a little, and the shoulder and elbow joints move forward till the centre of the elbow joint is directly above the ground-surface of the hoof. Therefore, when a horse at rest stands firmly on all four feet, the fore-leg viewed from the side, has a normal (regular) direction, when a perpendicular line dropped from the tuberosity of the acromian spine passes through the middle of the elbow joint and meets the ground near the middle of the hoof.

[3] On a shoe we distinguish an outer and an inner branch. The anterior portion, formed by the union of the two branches, is called the toe. The upper surface, upon which the hoof rests, is called the hoof-surface, and the under surface, which is in contact with the ground, the ground-surface. That portion of the hoof-surface which is in direct contact with the lower border of the wall, the white line, and a narrow margin of the sole is termed the bearing-surface, and when necessary “concaving” (seating) extends from this to the inner border of the shoe. On the ground-surface is seen the “fullering” or “crease.”

[4] The horizontal bearing-surface is in accordance with nature, because the changes of form of the hoof which take place at the plantar border of the wall, on burdening and unburdening the foot, should not be interfered with. A horizontal bearing-surface best fulfils this requirement.

[5] Should lameness persist, it will be necessary to remove a strip of the wall from the plantar border to the coronet in order to remove the horn tumor. The fleshy leaves which have secreted the tumor must be extirpated and the surface of the os pedis well scraped, or the growth will return.

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