PART I. THE FOOT, AND SHOEING. Introduction. CHAPTER I. Historical Observations OHAPTEE II. The Foot—Its Form and Function CHAPTER III. Preparing the Foot . CHAPTER IV. On Making Horse-shoes . CHAPTER V. On Clips, Calkins, and Toe-pieces CHAPTER VI. On Fitting Horse-shoes . CHAFTER VII. Nails, Nailing, and Finishing . CHAPTER VIII Shoeing Horses for the Field and the Turf , CHAPTER IX. On Plating Race-horses . CHAPTER X. Frost-sharping, or Roughing Shoes . 161 169 PAET II. ON LAMENESS. I. Preliminary Observations on Lameness . . 179 II. Observations on the Frequency op Lameness in Edinburgh, Birmingham, London, and Paris . 182 III. Description op some op the Pathological Con- ditions op Horses' Feet, commonly present in the Various Stages op Chronic Lameness . 194 IV. Special Causes op Lameness . . . . , 256 V. On Hoop-Ointment . . . . . 285 <» VI. Health op Horses, regarded in its Relation to Appections op the Feet . . . . 293