A series of original experiments on the foot of the living horse, exhibiting the changes produced by shoeing, and the causes of the apparent mystery of this art / By Bracy Clark.

  • Clark, Bracy, 1771-1860.
Date:
1809
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A series of original experiments on the foot of the living horse, exhibiting the changes produced by shoeing, and the causes of the apparent mystery of this art / By Bracy Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EXPERIMENTS ON THE FOOT OF THE HORSE. There is nothing can retard the advances of any art more than too much apprehension about its mysteries and difficulties. The art of -nailing iron to horses’ feet for their defence is in itself sufficiently simple; a view of the process would show it; the readiness with which those who practise it attain the art, would also evince it. The consequences entailed by a long continuance of this procedure it is that affects the feet; and the public, finding defects in their horses’ going from causes which were not at once apparent, have ac- quiesced in the mysterious nature of this art, which we hope to be enabled, in the following pages, to develope sufficiently for every one to have a right apprehension of it. This tenderness in the fore feet of horses^ and especially in the sad- dle horses, from its varying in the same animal so much, has created great embarrassment; and some are so differently affected to others that it has added to the intricacy of it. Some horses are continually tripping without ever falling; others are bolder in their step and ap- pear less affected, but fall at once and with more serious consequences; others are only brought to stepping shortly; others go wholly on the toe, as the shoe if examined evinces; these arise from the same cause operating