A treatise on the horse : its diseases, lameness, and improvement : in which is laid down the proper method of shoeing the different kinds of feet ... / by William Osmer.

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1830
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    Chap. I.] OF PARING THE CRUST. or, as we now say, to keep the heels open ; but when cut away, and their strength impaired, this suffers the heels, the quarters, and the coronary ring to contract upon the internal structure of the foot. Hereby another description of lameness is produced, of which I shall speak in the 5th and 6th chapters, as diseases of the navicula and of the coffin-joint; neither of which can be ascertained with any degree of precision, certainly not distin- guished from each other, to any useful purpose, until after death. The bars are situate between the heel, the frog, and the quarter on each side, and should not be scooped out according to the general mistaken practice, for the reasons just mentioned ; because, in conjunction with the frog, their use is to keep open the hinder part of the foot, as well as to de- fend it. Neither is the spongy, skinlike substance to be cut away until it becomes raggy, because it is the expansion of the skin round the heel, its use being to unite more firmly the foot and its contents ; as well as to keep the cellular parts of the heel from growing rigid; it also surrounds and covers the coronary ring, and may be observed to peel and dry away as it descends thence upon the hoof. The crust. Those are the general rules to be observed with respect to every kind of foot. But, because Mr. Lafosse has said “ the sole and frog should never be pared,” many smiths of our country, mistaking the extent of his meaning, have fallen into another extreme, and do not pare the