A practical treatise on the diseases of the foot of the horse : containing a correct description of their nature, causes, and method of prevention : with suggestions of improved plans of treatment, founded on physiological principles : also, rules of shoeing, by which the ordinary evils attending this process may be in some measure prevented / by Richard Hayward Budd.

  • Budd, Richard Hayward.
Date:
1816
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Credit: A practical treatise on the diseases of the foot of the horse : containing a correct description of their nature, causes, and method of prevention : with suggestions of improved plans of treatment, founded on physiological principles : also, rules of shoeing, by which the ordinary evils attending this process may be in some measure prevented / by Richard Hayward Budd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that of nature according to such degree. If, therefore, it has not attained such an extent, as to make anv great alteration in the sole, and thus be deficient of the most positive proof of its existence, still a re- ference to the angle, between the hoof and leg, will enable us to ascertain the oc-^ currence, even of a very simple deviation from the natural state. The degree of dis^ placement, which is thought inconsistent with the performance of the work of the animal, is marked by an excessive con^ vexity, with a general extremely thin statQ pf the sole; such circumstances preventing the use of the shoe, unless made sp ex-, tremely thick as tp be tpp heavy for thq ^nimal to sustain. Jn onq of such cases as have come under oux observation, aftei» death, the toe of the coffin-bone >vas e:3C-% posed and in a diseased state,