The veterinary surgeon; or, Farriery taught on a new and easy plan : being a treatise on all the diseases and accidents to which the horse is liable ... with instructions to the shoeing-smith, farrier, and groom / by John Hinds.

  • Hinds, John, active 1803-1830.
Date:
1827
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Credit: The veterinary surgeon; or, Farriery taught on a new and easy plan : being a treatise on all the diseases and accidents to which the horse is liable ... with instructions to the shoeing-smith, farrier, and groom / by John Hinds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    finely marked at the joint, is always well covered in a healthy horse (see section 15), he then throws it out with great freedom, and takes a firm step fairly on the entire bottom of his hoof; but, should the leg be ever so good a one in itself, yet placed too high upon the chest, where it is held, not by a socket or insertion of the bone, but by strong elastic muscle only, this throws the feet too near together upon the ground; the horse then treads on the outer quarter of his hoof, and wears away the wall; and, when tired, is most commonly given to cut. Endeavours are used in shoeing to amend this fault, by paring away the inner crust; but it is one of those defects in the built which no art can completely eradicate, and has been termed pigeon-toed. Nor is the matter rendered any better when, by reason of the knees turning in, the toes turn out, and the horse then treads on the inner quarter s and, however those of the one or the other de- scription may have the reputation of great speed, it can be for a short distance only, because the action of such horses must be laboured and im- perfect, particularly one of the latter kind of make. He must, consequently, fatigue himself more at every step, and tire sooner than one of the same size, and formed in every other respect similar, but having legs that come nearer in shape to those in the annexed sketch [fig. 3]. That such knock-knee-form is occasioned by weakness, is evident from the position of the knees, when the