A handbook of horse-shoeing : with introductory chapters on the anatomy and physiology of the horse's foot / by Jno. A.W. Dollar, with the collaboration of Albert Wheatley.

  • Dollar, Jno. A. W. (John A. W.)
Date:
1898
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Credit: A handbook of horse-shoeing : with introductory chapters on the anatomy and physiology of the horse's foot / by Jno. A.W. Dollar, with the collaboration of Albert Wheatley. 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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    forward The author was the first to notice the slipper-shoe, with its bearing surface inclined outwards, named after De la Broue In Germany, during this century, horse-shoeing was only slightly touched on in veterinary works,—the Thirty Years War retarding the development and advance of science. With the institution of veterinary schools in the eighteenth century, the farrier's art once more rose to prominence, mainly owing to the discoveries in connection with the anatomy and physiology of the horse's hoof. Towards the close of the eighteenth century the literature of farriery received many important addi- tions; and the improvement of horse - breeding, due to the intro- duction of Ori- ental blood, had an indirect though sensibly beneficial action in advanc- ing the art. In France, dur- ing the course of the eighteenth on horse - shoeing was published by Lafosse the elder, in which was recommended a special shoe,—thick at the toe, thinner towards the heels, flat on the ground surface, and provided with eight nail-holes, equally distributed throughout its extent. Lafosse clearly recognised the advantage of allowing the frog to touch the ground. To minimise slipping on smooth pavement, he suggested a system of shoeing which presents a striking likeness to the Charlier method, introduced a hundred years later. In 1768 Bourgelat, the founder of the first veterinary school at Lyons, described with great exactness the proportions for fore-shoes, and the height of the heels and toepieces. His shoe is long and trough-shaped; and when seen from the side, presents a certain resemblance in outline to a boat. While the French owe to these two authors a large debt of gratitude for their efforts in