Hippodonomia, or the True Structure, Laws, and Economy, of the Horse's Foot - Also Podophthora, or a Ruinous Defect in the Principle of the Common Shoe Detected; And Demonstrated by Experiments; With a Proposition for a New Principle o... #224456

About seven years ago, whilst pursuing some experiments on the contracted feet of horses, it occurred to me that the causes usually advanced to explain this serious imperfection were not real and that, in fact, the accidents, carelessness, idle habits, and wanton tricks Of the smith, so much inveighed against, had very little concern in its production.. The efficient cause began to appear to me to lie much deeper, and to consist in the Very method itself by which the shoe was affixed to the foot.