ON THE

FOOT OF THE HORSE,

AND A

NEW SYSTEM OF SHOEING,

BY ONE-SIDED-NAILING;

AND ON THE

NATURE, ORIGIN, AND SYMPTOMS,

OF THE

NAVICULAR JOINT LAMENESS,

WITH

PREVENTIVE AND CURATIVE TREATMENT.

BY

JAMES TURNER,

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE, AND VETERINARY SURGEON

IN THE ARMY.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR;

AND PUBLISHED BY LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN,
GREEN, AND LONGMAN,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

1832.

COMPTON AND RITCHIE, PRINTERS, MIDDLE STREET, LONDON.

ADVERTISEMENT.

K-UF 907
795

Biol.
Lib.

My views regarding the precise seat of the disease in chronic lameness of the Foot of the Horse, have been, for several years, before the public; and veterinary practitioners have since discarded the old and erroneous term of Coffin Lameness, and adopted that which is truly descriptive of this formidable malady, viz. The Navicular Joint Disease, I am now induced to collect the papers on this subject, which are dispersed through various numbers of THE VETERINARIAN, together with my other papers in that Periodical, illustrative of the System of Unfettered Shoeing; which system secures the ordinary defence to the foot, without confining the elastic hoof in its alternate expansion and contraction, and affords facilities to the growth and full development of the organ, notwithstanding a continued application of shoes to the two-years-old, or even yearling colts.

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