Observations on the formation and uses of the natural frog of the horse : with a description of a patent artificial frog, to prevent and cure contracted hoofs, thrushes, cankers, and sand cracks / by Edward Coleman.
- Coleman, Edward
- Date:
- 1800
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the formation and uses of the natural frog of the horse : with a description of a patent artificial frog, to prevent and cure contracted hoofs, thrushes, cankers, and sand cracks / by Edward Coleman. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![heels of the Jhoe tire placed on the fame level, the patent frog is nnnecefary. But where the frog is final], or the paftern joint long, or the action of the animal high, or the heels totf, fo as to render the application of thin heel’d Ihoes improper, or when the frog from any caufe is raifed above the ground in the ftable, an artificial frog is ufeful in all fuch cafes, and neceffary to refift contraction of the hoof. But if thin heel’d {hoes were productive of mifchief, or if my opinion had milled me to re- commend in all cafes thick ihoes to protect the frog from injury, (till my prefent opinion, as to the neceffity of giving preffure to the frog in the fable, when at reft and expofed to heat, would ilill be the fame. Whatever may be the thick- nefs of the (hoe, there are ftones ftill thicker, and to enable the frog when in motion to bear fuch preffure without pain or mifchief, and to refift the influence of heat, and to keep the hoof and frog expanded, perpendicular pref- fure to the frog in the ftable muft be always beneficial, do raife the frog from preffure when at ref, and yet to expofe it to (harp and hard bodies when combined with force and con- ftant afition, muft be obvioufly definitive to the ceconomy of the whole foot, and to the fenfible parts in particular.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28519425_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
