File:The Horse - its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding, training and management (1905) (14798326973).jpg

Identifier: horseitstreatmen09axej (find matches)
Title: The Horse : its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London : Gresham
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
'
Text Appearing After Image:
Fig. 651.—Shoes for Cutting the opposite fetlock. In very few cases is the heel of a shoe the offendingpart. It is the inside toe which strikes, and this proves that the injuryresults from defective action and not from prominence of the shoe. It has been found that a three-quarter shoe does good in cutting. Itdoes so, not because the heel was the offending part, but because themovement of the foot is modified by the altered form of the shoe. Thepractice of raising one side of the foot higher than the other for theprevention of cutting is very widely adopted, and plausible theories areframed as to its effects. Sometimes it is argued that the injured fetlockis thrown farther outwards, and sometimes that the offending foot is madeto move farther away from the opposite leg. The practice is not alwayssuccessful, and the theory wants a true basis of facts. Not one horse ina thousand cuts when in good condition, and nearly every horse doeswhen out of condition. Patience, good feeding, and

Note About Images