Horse shoes and horse shoeing: their origin, history, uses, and abuses/front matter
HORSE-SHOES
AND
HORSE-SHOEING:
THEIR ORIGIN,
HISTORY, USES, AND ABUSES.
BY
GEORGE FLEMING, F.R.G.S., F.A.S.L.,
MEMBER OF COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS; VETERINARY
SURGEON, ROYAL ENGINEERS;
AUTHOR OF 'TRAVELS ON HORSEBACK IN MANTCHU TARTARY', ETC
WITH 210 ILLUSTRATIONS.
LONDON:
CHAPMAN AND HALL,
193, PICCADILLY.
1869.
[All Rights Reserved.]
Por un clavo te pierde una herradura, por una herradura un Cavallo, por un Cavallo un Cavallero.— Old Spanish Proverb.
A little neglect may breed great mischief. For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.— Benjamin Franklin.
A proper mode of shoeing is certainly of more importance than the treatment of any disease, or perhaps of all the diseases incident to horses. The foot is a part that we are particularly required to preserve in health; and if this art be judiciously employed, the foot will not be more liable to disease than any other.—Professor E. Coleman.
John Childs and son. printers
TO
His Royal Highness
PRINCE ARTHUR, K.G. K.T.
THIS INQUIRY INTO
THE ORIGIN, PROGRESS, AND PERFECTING OF AN ART
WHICH KINGS AND NOBLES HAVE NOT DISDAINED TO STUDY AND PRACTISE,
AND WHICH IS VERY INTIMATELY CONNECTED WITH
THE COMFORT AND UTILITY OF THE NOBLEST
AND MOST USEFUL ANIMAL EVER DOMESTICATED BY MAN,
IS MOST HUMBLY AND RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY