Lectures on the elements of farriery: or, the art of horse-shoeing, and on the diseases of the foot. Designed chiefly for the use of the pupils of the Veterinary College, London / By Charles Vial de Sainbel.

  • Charles Vial de Sainbel
Date:
1793
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Credit: Lectures on the elements of farriery: or, the art of horse-shoeing, and on the diseases of the foot. Designed chiefly for the use of the pupils of the Veterinary College, London / By Charles Vial de Sainbel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    grows into an evil when it is applied to a body capa¬ ble of translation*, and considered in a state of actual motion; because then, the mass and weight of the foot, overburthens the muscles of the extremity, and retards the progress of the animal. Besides, the ex¬ cessive bulk of the foot is a proof of greater or less relaxation in the texture of those fibres which com¬ pose it, in which case, the diameters of the vessels are increased, the porosities are multiplied, and the fluids abound in them in too great quantities; conse¬ quently, this kind of foot is soft, tender, and sensible. On the other hand, too small a foot, by not pre¬ senting sufficient surface to the ground, renders the * It has been impossible to avoid introducing the words translation, progression, percussion. Though these words may, in the opinion of some, appear too scientific for the subject, yet it will be found, that in considering the motions of animals according to the laws of me¬ chanics, and expressing them with the accuracy which those laws de¬ mand, it was not possible to employ more familiar terms without de¬ grading the subject, and adding nothing to its perspicuity. For a fuller conviction of the necessity of recurring to these terms, both in order to speak and to be understood with accuracy, the reader may consult the ingenious work of the celebrated Borelli, “ de mctu ani- tnalium ]eg