Stereoplea, or, The artificial defence of the horse's hoof considered / by Bracy Clark.

  • Clark, Bracy, 1771-1860.
Date:
1817
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Credit: Stereoplea, or, The artificial defence of the horse's hoof considered / by Bracy Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and being supported by bone of due size, completes the well formed Foot.* Almost any ground would suit such a hoof and foot; but dry and elevated ground I apprehend is more suiting the constitution of the horse and his feet. The High or Mule Foot. This kind of Hoof is narrower than the former, and perfectly cylindrical, more upright, and in general of a harder and more compacted horn; white stripes, or broad perpendicular ribbands, are often seen with these. The frog is smaller and much raised, as is the sole more concave: perhaps the best calculated for being used, without defence of any. I have thought the chesnut coloured horses were more subject to this sort of hoof. The Large Lumpy Hoof. By this inelegant, but expressive term, I intend to denote a hoof, in which the foot seems half buried and sunk as it were; this arises from the bones and cartilages being small, with the hoof capacious, and also in general thick and heavy. Horses with this structure of the hoof and foot move in a peculiar manner as though swinging a weight; and if they fall, fall desperately. This form of hoof is not unfrequent in coach horses; but is not confined to them. The Small Hoof and Projecting Coronet. The hoof here embracing the foot very closely, is smaller, strait, and stout; the coronets, as though squeezed, overhang the hoof. I have thought horses rather less than the middle size, fiery in temper, and of a black color, were more subject to this make. The bones also appear too gross for the dimensions of the hoof; if any good could be done by damp relaxing situations during the growth of the hoof, one should expect this kind of foot would be the most likely to be benefited by it. The Trumpet Hoof. By this I understand, a Hoof narrow about the coronet, of a rounded figure, and widening downwards conically; this sort of close embrace about the upper parts of the foot appears to occasion pain and fever: it is in general I believe not a natural defect, but the consequence of shoeing. The Flat Hoof Extraordinary flatness is sometimes seen in hoofs, and such would be rendered still flatter, and more feeble, by exposure in low, damp, relaxing situations; this kind appear to bear the effects of the nailed shoe better than others, and I believe may even in some cases be * The inclination of this Hoof frorp the perpendicular is about 33 degrees.