FLESHY-FOOTED
.—A horse is said to be FLESHY FOOTED, when that part of the bottom of the foot on each side the FROG (called the OUTER SOLE) is preternaturally prominent, constituting a convexity above the wall or crust of the HOOF, where the shoe should have its proper bearing upon the FOOT of the HORSE. In feet of this description, the outer sole, from repeated bruising and battering in constant work upon hard roads, or from an injudicious and destructive paring away with the butteris, are so exceeding thin as to indent with the slightest impression, and being too weak to resist the membranous expansion within, compulsively submit to the internal propulsion, and are thrown into the projecting form already described. Great care is required in shoeing horses with this defect: the inner part of the web of the shoe should be so completely hollowed as not to admit the least chance of bearing upon the prominent part; if it does, tenderness and disquietude (if not lameness) must inevitably ensue. In cases of this kind, neither the butteris or drawing-knife, should be permitted in hand; they only render the REMEDY worse than the DISEASE.