Year Published: -430
Author: Simon of Athens,
Title: De Arte Veterinaria & Equorum Inspectione [both thought to be
part of the same work]
Comments: Smith quotes from a 12th century MS containing writings by
Simon: "The foot must be good, lightly though strongly built, neither too
broad nor too high; a small, well-shaped foot with good stout horn is the
best. The sound it makes on coming in contact with the ground will enable
its character to be determined, for the hollow foot rings like a bell."


Year Published: -380
Author: Xenophon, the Historian
Title: De Re Equestri
Comments: "Horsemanship" From Morgan's translation, 1893: "In buying a
horse... ...the first things you ought to look at are his feet. ...High
ones [heels] keep what is called the frog well off the ground, while
horses with low hoofs walk with the hardest and softest part of the foot
at once, like knock-kneed men. Simon says that their [hollow, ringing]
sound is a proof of good feet and he is right...." Fleming (1869, p. 23)
translatesthat passage a bit more forcefully: "...like in-kneed men, or
like cripples among men, who limp on parts which were never intended by
nature to support them." Xenophon was clearly against frog pressure; and
against moistening the hoofs: "Washing down of the legs is a thing I
absolutely forbid; it does no good -- on the contrary, daily washing is
bad for the hoofs." (1893)


Year Published: -36
Author: Varro, Marcus Tarentius
Title: De Re Rustica
Comments: Smith says: "Horses and their selection for various puposes,
breeding rearing, and feeding are then considered in terms which the
reader... may consider to be quite modern.... He is particular in
impressing the necessity for the care and cleanliness of the feet.
Mules, which were largely employed in those days, were directed to be
driven to the mountains during the summer in order to keep their feet [dry
and] hard."


Year Published: 55
Author: Columella, L. J. M.
Title: De Re Rustica
Comments: "Concerning Agriculture"Smith says: "The hygenic care of
horses is more than once insisted upon, and the necessity of bringing up
foals with good, sound, hard feet is urged. Mules and mule-breeding
receive a very full notice, for Romans thought highly of the hybrid."
Fleming quotes him regarding stable management: "The master should
frequently go into his stable, and should be particular in observing that
the floor of the stallis sufficiently high in the centre, and not made of
soft wood..." both measures designed to make sure the hoofs stay dry and
hard. Morgan in his translation of Xenophon (1893), quotes Columella as
say hoofs should be "hard, high, hollow...."


Year Published: 350
Author: Hippocrates,
Title: A Treatise on the Veterinary Art


Year Published: 480
Author: Vegetius Renatus, Publius
Title: Artis Veterinariae
Comments: Smith says: "He was the first writer in the Christian era to
produce a work entirely devoted to veterinary medicine." Laminitis is
recognized, and part of the treatment recommended is "to walk [the horse]
gently up and down in a dry place until he sweats." Fleming quotes him:
"when they [horses] stand idle in the stables, they begin to halt and go
lame." To keep hoofs hard, the stable floors are to be raised and urine
drained away.Fleming notes that a combination of pitch and rosin, melted
and applied to the soles is used to harden tender feet. Could this be
navicular he refers to from standing idle?
Haslam, 1832, quotes Blaine, 1802: "Vegetius... though he accurately
enumerates everything connected with an army forge makes no mention of any
apparatus for shoeing horses, nor any artificers for that purpose."


Year Published: 910
Author: Leo VI, Emperor
Title: Tactica Imperatoris Leonis
Comments: Fleming notes "there is a list of everything necessary for the
equipment of a cavalry soldier, and amongst other articles are included
'lunar or crescent-shaped iron shoes and their nails.'" This is often
cited as the first written record of iron horseshoes. B. Clark in "A
Series... part II" page 145 notes that it was Beckmann, 1780, who found
these records, and translates them as "halters..., crescent figured irons
and their nails."The first written record of iron horseshoes? Apparently
the cavalry carried them ready-made, with nails.


Year Published: 1160
Author: Ibn-al-Awam,
Title: a celebrated treatise on agriculture and veterinary medicine
Comments: Smith says: "Without a doubt the most remarkable work of its
kind produced during this period. The author quotes Aristotle, Galen,
Dioscorides, and Hippocrates the veterinarian.... In the second part he
deals with the animals of the farm--their breeding, rearing, feeding,
management, training; make and shape of horses, dentition, and shoeing.
One chapter is entirely devoted to the consideration of diseases of the
horse."


Year Published: 1250
Author: Ruffus, Jordanus
Title: Il dottisimo libro non piu Stampato delle Malscalzie del Cavallo,
del Signor Giordano Rusto, Calaurese ["Equine Medicine"]
Comments: Smith says: "The work of Ruffus forms the starting point of the
regeneration of the veterinary art in Europe.... Molin states that it was
from his work that the precepts of the art of shoeing spread to Europe,
but Heusinger will not admit this, and says that shoeing had been
practised in Germany prior to 1185 A.D. The fact, however, is that in the
days of Ruffus the Arabs were well aquainted with shoeing." The first
mention of unsoling?Smithcors, 1957 (p. 133) says: "Ruffus gives much
information on lameness and shoeing, both from Arab works later than the
Byzantine writings and from original observation. The massive Arab shoe
described by Ruffus remained in use to the present century....", "Ruffus
was the first veterinary work to adopt a defin- itive system of
nomenclature of disease which resembles modern usage..."


Year Published: 1260
Author: Bekr Ibn Bedr, Abou
Title: The Naceri, or the Perfection of the Two Arts (Horsemanship and
Veterinary)
Comments: Smith notes: "One cannot help feeling astonished that so much
knowledge existed in Egypt at a time when matters in Europe, exclusive of
Spain, were, generally speaking, in such a degraded condition. ...[Most of
the] knowledge was Greek.... [but they made important additions regarding]
dental operations, which nowhere are referred to by the Byzantine writers;
also to diseases of the limbs and feet, and the injuries... from shoeing."


Year Published: 1270
Author: Henley, Walter de
Title: Le Dite de Hosebondrie
Comments: Smith says this is "The second English work bearing on
veterinary matters of which any record exists..." and, regarding
shoeing--"he compares the cost of ploughing with horses or cattle, and
incidentally refers to their keep and its cost. Each horse cost 12s 5d
for the working year of 27 weeks... including oats, grass, and shoeing
[figured as 1d /foot per week--in 1912 that 1d = 1s 3d]; the ox for the
same period costs 3s 1d."Mentions the cost of shoeing as a normal part of
farming with horses -- so obviously shoeing farm horses was frequently
practiced at the time. Fleming, page 405, notes that he advised farming
with oxen, rather than horses, because of their lower upkeep.


Year Published: 1307
Author: Crescentius, Petrus de
Title: Opera di mascalcia
Comments: Fleming notes: "He describes several disorders the foot of the
horse is liable to, and points out the difference between the hoofs of
horses reared and employed in mountainous districts, and those bred in
low-lying plains."


Year Published: 1422
Author: Rusius, Laurentius
Title: Liber Marescalcia Equorum [some later editions as "Hippiatria"]
Comments: Smith says he was often wrongly confused with Jordanus Ruffus,
from whose text he borrowed heavily and expanded upon, also: "His work
served as the basis of many veterinary compilations.... ...Blundeville...
quotes L. Rusius on almost every page. ...Lameness and shoeing are well
done." Fleming says he is brief and reasonable on shoeing and quotes him
as saying: "It is necessary to shoe horses with... proper shoes shaped
like the hoofs.."Smith page 94 (vol. 1) says he describes the operation of
unsoling and the diseases in which it was indicated.


Year Published: 1425
Author: Esteves, Affonso
Title: Este livro fez Affonso Esteves morador em santarem Ferrador
del-Rey, o qual escreveo Jaoa de Aveiro morador na Certa… criado que foy
do Prior D. Fr. Alvaro camelo que Deos perdoe, e foy acabado no anno de N.
Se¤hor JC 1425
Comments: "This book by Affonso Esteves... the King's horseshoer..."


Year Published: 1471
Author: Crescentius, Petrus de
Title: Opus Ruralium Commodorum[a later edition titled "De Omnibus
Agri- culturae partibus,&c. per longo rerum usu exercitatum Optimum et
Philosophum Petrum Crescentiensem, principem rei publicae Bononiensis,&c
Basileae 1548]
Comments: Smith says: "Molin was the first to show that those [chapters]
dealing with the horse were mere textual reproductions from Jordanus
Ruffus. ...The work of Crescentius presented Europe with the practice of
J. Ruffus. This fact must not be lost sight of in estimating the
influence exercised by Ruffus in the development of the veterinary art.
Cresentius is frequently quoted by an early writer in England who had no
idea he was studying Ruffus."see also Crescentius, 1307.


Year Published: 1486
Author: Rusius, Laurentius
Title: Liber Marescalcia Equorum
Comments: I assume this is the 1st edition to be printed by machine.
Although this is not the 1st edition to appear after Gutenberg's
invention, Huth notes that the 1462 edition is in MS form.


Year Published: 1492
Author: Ruffus, Jordanus
Title: Il dottisimo libro non piu Stampato delle Malscalzie del Cavallo,
del Signor Giordano Rusto, Calaurese [edited by Friar Bruno]
Comments: Smith says that shoeing; injuries to the limbs and hoofs;
lameness, including sprains, malformed limbs, spavin, ringbone, laminitis,
bruised sole, sandcrack, and canker are dealt with. See also Ruffus,
1250.


Year Published: 1498
Author: Albrecht, Andreas
Title: Das kleine Rossarzneibchlein
Comments: "The Little Horsedoctoring booklet" Smith says: "Andreas
Albrecht is the first German writer of whom we have information." Fleming
cites the 1542 edition as being the first treatise in German in which
shoeing is mentioned, and notes that the book describes Albrecht as "des
Kaiser Friedrich huffschmid." Fleming dismisses the book as not adding to
Fiaschi, possibly unaware of the editions published before Fiaschi.


Year Published: 1499
Author: Da Vinci, Leonardo
Title: Anatomy of the Horse
Comments: Smith, speaking of Notes..., says: "Fig. 28 gives an
outline of the complete body, together with measurements such as we are
familiar with in St. Bel's proportions of Eclipse. In fact the chief
value to us of the work of da Vinci is to show the origin of the system of
measurement pursued so vigorously on the Continent in dealing with make
and shape, but which has found no favor in this country [England]."


Year Published: 1516
Author: Xenophon, the Historian
Title: De Re Equestri
Comments: "Horsemanship"Huth notes that this was the first printing of
the book--previously, of course, it had only been hand copied by hand.


Year Published: 1522
Author: Francisco de la Reyna,
Title: Libro de albeyter¡a. En el qual se veran todas quantas
enfermedades y desastres sucten aedescer a todo genero de bestias y la
cura de dellas. Assim ismo se vera las colores y faciones para conscer un
buen cavallo...etc.
Comments: Smith says: "Moul‚ describes the 1553 edition as being without
method or system. The usual diseases are dealt with, also the selection
of horses. At the end there is a treatise on shoeing by another and
unnamed author.... The real interest this man possesses is that his views
on the circulation of the blood... almost anticipated the discovery of
Harvey. Many editons of the work of La Reyna were published."


Year Published: 1523
Author: Fitzherbert, John
Title: The Boke of Husbandrye
Comments: Smith says: "'Morfounde' (laminitis) is particularly well
described. He attributes the cause to chill, through standing with the
feet in a cold place after fast work. He says it occurs in the 'heart of
the foot,' that it grows down wax-like and crumpled up like a `pomis.' He
notes the wrinkles on the wall of the foot, the increased thickness of the
wall when the foot is disorganized..." The origin of the terms "founder"
and "pumice."


Year Published: 1524
Author: Vegetius Renatus, Publius
Title: Artis Veterinariae, sive Mulomedicinae Libri quatuor.
Comments: Zundel says that canker was known to Vegetius. Fleming quotes
him: "It is a more prudent counsel to preserve the soundness of horses'
feet than to cure any disorder in them; but their hoofs are strengthened
if the horses or mules stand in a very clean stable, without dung or
moisture, and if their stalls are floored or laid with oaken planks...."
See also notes under Vegetius, 480 & 1748.First mention of canker -- 480?


Year Published: 1533
Author: Rusius, Laurentius
Title: La Mar‚chalerie de Laurens Ruse. [title of Paris, 1563 ed. -
translated from the Latin edition published at Spire in 1486]
Comments: Fleming notes that various editions carried various names:
Ruzzius, Russo, Ruzo, de Ruccis, Ruse, Rugino, Rosso, and Riso. Also see
notes on the 1st ed. 1422.


Year Published: 1535
Author: Rusius, Laurentius
Title: Liber Marescalcia Equorum [translated into German]
Comments:


Year Published: 1540
Author: Crescentius, Petrus de
Title: Good Husbandman [Eng. transl. of French title]
Comments: Smith says Crescentius "presented Europe with the practice of J.
Ruffus."


Year Published: 1551
Author: Gesner, Conrad
Title: Historiae animalium, Liber I. de quadrupedibus vivparis.
Comments: Smith says: "Gesner presented Europe with a complete analysis of
ancient practice, and endeavoured to bring matters as well as he could up
to date by the introduction of Rusius...." In reviewing Topsell's
translation (1607) Smith (I-285) notes they continued to recommend "a
horse-shoe cast in the road could be employed in the treatment of 'hicket'
(hiccough), as recommended by the ancient writers." I wonder when that
idea started.


Year Published: 1553
Author: Scacco de Tagliacozzo, Filippo
Title: Trattato di Mascalcia
Comments: "Treatise on Farriery" Fleming lists this book as being by
Filippo Sacro de Logliacozzo, 1553, while Smith lists it as by Phillip
Scacco of Tagliacozzo, 1591. Smith notes it is the first veterinary work
to be illustrated. The editions of 1603 and 1628 were published in
combination with Fiaschi--see Fiaschi, 1603.


Year Published: 1555
Author: Columella, L. J. M.
Title: De Re Rustica [transl. into French]
Comments: See Columella, 55.


Year Published: 1556
Author: Fiaschi, Cesare
Title: Trattato dell' imbrigliare, attegiare, e ferrare cavalli, etc.
Comments: Smith says: "Book III is on shoeing and is generally believed to
be the first to have been specially written on the subject. ...It is quite
clear that in the middle of the 16th century a very great deal was known
of shoeing, and probably nearly all the patterns that are at present in
use existed then.[pictured] ...Fiaschi had no practical knowledge of
shoeing.... He speaks of the carelessness and laziness of farriers as a
class."Smith also notes: "Remedial measures for various defects, such as
over-reaching, brushing, turned-in toes, false quarter, contracted
tendons, and shoes to assist a horse that has lost a shoe on the road."
Fleming-449 mentions a "seated" shoe, with a thin or concave inner edge.
The 1556 ed. is in the Folger Shakespeare Lib. in DC; in Yale U.; Harvard;
& NY Public, among others.


Year Published: 1563
Author: Masse, Jean
Title: La Grande Mar‚chalerie du Champernois
Comments:


Year Published: 1564
Author: Fiaschi, Cesare
Title: Trait‚ de la ManiŠre de Bien Emboucher, Manier, et Ferrer les
Chevaux; avec les figures de Mors de Bride, Tours et Maniements et Fers
qui y sont propres. Dedie au Roi Henri II. [French tranl. by Fr. de
Prouane]
Comments: Fiaschi's was the first book entirely on shoeing and it
illustrates 20 different types of shoes, even a hinged, and a nailless
shoe. Copies of the illustrations are in Fleming, Peuch, Magner, Sparkes,
Jones, etc.--the shoes in Blundeville are very similar. Fleming says:
"His masterly production forms the basis of nearly all the treatises
subsequently written on horse-shoeing.8 -9 nails - the odd one to go
outside (Fleming-447) The lunette, or half-shoe was to be used on horses
which had been reared in marshy lands, but to be used only for a few
months (Fleming-448).The 1563 edition is in the New York Public
Library, Folger Shakespeare in D.C.; Yale U.; and others.


Year Published: 1566
Author: Blundeville, Thomas
Title: The Fower chiefyst offices belongyng to Horsemanshippe... Part 4...
the true Arte of Paring and Shooying all maner of Houes, together with the
shapes and fygures of dyuers shooes, very necessary for dyures horses.
Comments: This was the first English book with details of shoeing. Smith
notes Blundeville had no practical knowledge of shoeing, and credits what
he writes to "M. Martin Shelley... chief 'Ferrer' to the Queen's
Majesty..." although the ideas closely follow Fiaschi's. Smith says also:
"Nevertheless the subject was remarkably well understood, and we have the
independent testimony of two writers... certifying to the excellence [of
shoeing then]."Blundeville's shoe illustrations are copied in Jones
"Horseshoeing",1972 -- like Fiaschi's but more crude -- the heels being
square instead of tapered, the screw-fastened hinged shoe a bit more
clumsy, etc. -- no clips, though Fiaschi had them? First mention I've
seen of stoppings and dressings -- see SmithI-117. see Vet. 1837 p579
NUC-11 or more copies -- DLC; DFo; CtY;


Year Published: 1566
Author: Carraciolo, Pasquali
Title: La Gloria del Cauallo, opera dell' illustre Pasquali Carraciolo,
diuisa in dieci libri: n‚ i quali oltra gli ordini pertinenti alla
Cauelleria, si descivono tutti i particolari che son necessarii... etc.
Comments: Gamgee, page 291, says he gives a recipe for hoof dressing for
brittle hoofs: "composed of new wax, mutton-suet, turpentine, butter, and
olive-oil."


Year Published: 1567
Author: Corte, Claudio
Title: Gloria del Cavallo
Comments:


Year Published: 1570
Author: Heresbach, Conrad
Title: Agricultural Affairs [English translation of German title]
Comments: Smith says Heresbach "has been described as the Columella of
Germany."Part I of the 3rd Book deals with horses--see notes under the
English translation--Heresbach, 1577.


Year Published: 1570
Author: Man‡anas, Eugenio
Title: Libro de enfrenamientos de la Gineta ...
Comments: The title translates as "The book of bridling the Jenet". Both
MSU and Yale have it listed under the subject heading of horseshoeing.
MSU lists it with the author's name spelled Mancanas. Huth lists it as
Manz nas. Yale, and the National Union Catalog list it as Man‡anas.


Year Published: 1572
Author: Vegetius Renatus, Publius
Title: On the Distempers of Horses, etc.
Comments: An English translation of Artis Veterinariae. Smith says
he advised to make stable floors of wood raised above the ground to keep
the urine from hoofs and the hoofs dry. Laminitis was treated by walking
(see also Vegetius Renatus, 480). It mentions medicines to harden and
increase the growth of hoofs. Hoof wraps are mentioned, but not metal
shoes.


Year Published: 1573
Author: Corte, Claudio
Title: L'cuyer
Comments:


Year Published: 1575
Author: Ruellius, Jean de la
Title: Rossartzney. Zwey Ntzliche sehr gute Bcher. šbersetzung von G.
Zechendorffer.
Comments: "Farriery. Two Useful very good Books. Translated by G.
Zechendorffer."


Year Published: 1576
Author: Malbie, Sir Nicholas
Title: A plaine and easie way to remedy a Horse that is foundered in his
feete. By which vsing this remedy (within xxiiii. howres after his
instant foundering) you may within xxiiii. hours... trauell your horse and
iourney...
Comments: Malbie was a soldier, and farrier to Queen Elizabeth. He does
not recommend removing the shoes nor does he recommend unsoling. As Smith
describes it, his cure consists basically of bleeding, and walking
exercise. Although neither was a new treatment at the time, they are more
helpful than the then-popular practise of removing the shoes and the
entire horny sole.
The DNLM listed their copy as being 1853, but I suspect they transposed
thenumbers in the date 1583.


Year Published: 1577
Author: Herwarth von Hohenburg, Hans Georg
Title: Von der Hochberumpten, Adeligen und Ritterlichen Kunst der Reyterey
Comments: "About the Highly Famous, Noble and Knightly Art of Riding"
Fleming refers to him as Hohenburg, and mentions this as the second
earliest German veterinary work mentioning shoeing.


Year Published: 1577
Author: Heresbach, Conrad
Title: The Foure Bookes of Husbandrie [English transl. by Barnaby Googe]
Comments: Smith reviews this translation: "'If a horse thrust out a foot
and stand not even it is a sign of some fault in the foot.' If the
trouble is due to shoeing we are advised to tap the heads of the nails and
ascertain the offender. ...If in lameness he insufficiently bends a joint
it is an indication that that joint is at fault. All this is very sound
and decidedly superior to the shoulder diagnosis of the later
centuries."First description of pointing? Treatment of laminitis "by the
administration of the skin of the weasel cut up in small pieces, together
with butter, putrid egg, and vinegar."


Year Published: 1582
Author: Calvo, Fernando
Title: Libro de Albeyter¡a, en el qual se trata del cavallo, y mulo, y
Iumeto, y de sus miembros y calidades y de todas sus enfermedades, con las
causas, senales y remedios de cada una de ellas... y un neuvo arte de
herrar
Comments: So many books have attatched to them "the new system of shoeing"
or words to that effect, that they may have been added simply in order to
sell more books, much the way products now are frequently advertised as
"new and improved".Smith says: "All the old writers are quoted, also de
la Reyna [1522]. The dialogue on shoeing is in verse. ...The work gives
the impression of the hand of the scholar rather than the practitioner."


Year Published: 1583
Author: Crescentius, Petrus de
Title: New Feldt vnd Ackerbaw
Comments: See Cresentius, 1307, and 1471.


Year Published: 1584
Author: E., L. V.
Title: Ritterlich Reitter kunst, Darinen ordentlich begriffen Wie ma
zuvorderst die Ritterliche und adeliche šbung der Reuterry, bevorab in
Teutschland... etc.
Comments: "The Knightly Art of Riding..."Smith says: "There are
full-page illustrations of the cavalry of various countries and times;
draught horses are shown in harness, the collars being of wood; stable
interiors are clearly drawn showing overhead hay racks, and horses packed
in close together. Farriers may be seen at work, both in the forge and
infirmary. ...The plates... are a most valuable record of contemporary
events."


Year Published: 1585
Author: Clifford, Christopher
Title: Schoole of Horsemanship, wherein is discovered what skill and
knowledge is required in a good horseman... briefly touching the knowledge
of the Breeder, Sadler, Smith, and the horse-leech, ...a new Racke... etc.
Comments: Smith notes that the 6th book is on shoeing, and although it was
missing from the British Museum copy which he read, there were in other
parts references to shoeing. Clifford says to pare the foot as little as
possible at the heels but to pare it well at the toes.


Year Published: 1587
Author: Mascall, Leonard
Title: First Booke of Cattel [also in that volume:] The Second booke in
treating of the gouernment of Horses, with the approued remedies against
most diseases. Verie profitable for all men hauing a charge and
gouernment..
Comments: Smith notes that it is largely a copy of Blundeville, but
includes description of hoof section for the treatment of "Hoof bound"
which is not in Blundeville, and may have come from Gesner, 1551, the
"History of Animals", (in German), which dealt with diseases of
animals--although it was not published in an English translation until
1607--as "The History of Four-Footed Beasts, etc." See also "Marshal" in
the Glossary.First to describe hoof grooving, or hoof section operation
for hoof bound, but not laminitis, according to SmithI-342.


Year Published: 1588
Author: Seuter, Mangen
Title: Ein Vast Sch”nes und Nutzliches Buech von der Rossartzney, so auf
Vilen Kunstbuechern von Allerley Fremben und Teutscher Sprach...zu Wegen
und in ein Gewisse Ordnung und Rubriken Gebracht Worden, etc.
Comments: "A Beautiful and Useful Book on Horsedoctoring" Smith says it
is "merely a collection of prescriptions" compiled from many sources.
Fleming says this is one of the earliest German books to mention shoeing,
but does not cover anything which was not already covered by
Fiaschi.Karasszon, 1988, reproduces a number of illustrations from
Seuter's book. Among them is a drawing of a knight in armor, with the
horse clearly wearing shoes with heel caulks, and an illustration of a
farrier (wearing an apron, shoeing tool box by his feet, and horseshoe
tacked on the roof) giving a horse a drench.


Year Published: 1593
Author: Broue, Salomon de la
Title: Le Cavalerice Fran‡ois
Comments: Although there are many references in shoeing books to the
"slipper shoe" of de la Broue (used to treat or prevent contraction of the
hoof) this is the only book by a de la Broue that I have found. Smith
simply mentions it as a book on equitation, and that de la Broue was a
"celebrated equestrian" pupil of the Italian riding master Pignatelli.
Pady only mentions de la Broue in his remarks on Markham, 1607 (q.v.).In
the 1618 edition I could find no reference to shoeing, or to hoof
contraction. First "slipper shoe" to treat contraction?While looking
for this book at PA, I found another which was very similar in size and
content: L”hneisen's Hof-Kriegs und Reit-Schul, which mentions
"beschlagenbestommen die gerne zwang-hffe" (1729, p.6)


Year Published: 1598
Author: Ruini, Carlo
Title: Dell' anatomia e dell' infermita dell cavallo
Comments: Smith notes that Ruini partially described the circulation
before Dr. Harvey. Ruini's excellent anatomy was not translated into
English, but Snape 85 years later, copied several plates. Smith says that
in Book VI he deals with "'brushing' and 'over reaching,' spavin, splint,
laminitis, various forms of foot trouble... injuries in shoeing, quittor,
contraction of the hoof, together with may other varieties of foot injury
and distortions."Fleming-450 says his treatment of contraction consisted
of lunette (thin heeled tips); he describes the paring of soles until they
were thin, and problems from high caulks; also describing shoes with bar
clips, to treat contraction. Zundel, page 85, also speaks of "Ruinien" in
1618 mentioning a shoe to treat contraction with bar-clips, or "ears".


Year Published: 1599
Author: Panciroli, Guido
Title: Raccolta breve d'alcune cose pi— segnalate e hebbero gli antichi, e
d'alcune altre trovate da moderni. Con l'aggiunta d'alcune considerationi
curiose e utili di F. Gualtieri
Comments: see notes on Panciroli, 1727.


Year Published: 1599
Author: Seuter, Mangen
Title: Hippiatria
Comments: Dollar, pg. 12, says that in this book are described shoes for
the treatment of contracted feet. First shoes for contracted feet?


Year Published: 1603
Author: Ruini, Carlo
Title: Anatomie & Medicina Equorum Noua. Das ist: Neuwes Ross Buch.
šbersetzung von P. Uffenbach
Comments: "On the anatomy and diseases of the horse" See Ruini, 1598.


Year Published: 1603
Author: Fiaschi, Cesare
Title: Trattato dell' imbrigliare, attegiare, e ferrare caualli. Diviso
in tre libri, ne' quali sono tutte le figure a proposito delle briglie, de
gli atteggiamenti e de' ferri. Et ... Trattato di mescalzia di Filippo
Scacco...
Comments: "Treatise on bridling, training and shoeing horses. ..."See
Fiaschi, 1556, & 1564; also Scacco, 1553.


Year Published: 1606
Author: Markham, Gervase
Title: How to Chuse, Ryde, and Traine, and diet both Hunting-horses and
Running-horses, with all the secrets thereto belonging discovered; an Arte
never heere-to-fore written by any author... for the ignorant...etc., 2nd
ed.
Comments: Smith says "In the 1606 edition of How to Chuse, Markham
undertook to deal with the subject of shoeing, [which he did not in the
1st ed. 1597]--but knew nothing of the question personally, and refers his
readers to Blundeville. ...adding 'as it is a thing utterly beyond my
element.'" Diet is also utterly beyond his element, for he recommends
restriciting water to once a day and in a small amount!See also Markham's
Maister-Peece, 1610.


Year Published: 1607
Author: Francini, Horace de
Title: Hippiatrique...ou est Trait‚ des Causes des Maladies du Cheval...le
Moyen de le Guarir d'Icelles, etc.
Comments: Fleming lists this as a publication on veterinary medicine and
farriery.NUC-DNLM


Year Published: 1607
Author: Ruini, Carlo
Title: Hippiatria
Comments: A French translation of "Dell' anatomia e dell' infermita dell
cavallo"See Ruini, 1598.


Year Published: 1607
Author: Gesner, Conrad
Title: The History of Four-Footed Beasts, etc. [transl. from German by
Edward Topsell]
Comments: Smith says: "The article on horses in this history is very long,
and deals with their choice; selection of animals for breeding; handling,
breaking, and training; equitation; the various breeds of horses; the
horse in war and peace; diet, length of life; 'statues and figures of
horses'; and a moral discourse on the animal. Then follows an account of
their diseases."
also "the medicinal virtues of animal secretions and excretions...."Smith
notes (I-205) that hoof section is described in this book, and so also
probably was in the 1587 origional.


Year Published: 1607
Author: Markham, Gervase
Title: Cavelarice or The English Horseman. Contayning all the Art of
Horse- manship, as much as is necessary for any man to understand, whether
hee be horse-breeder, -ryder, -hunter, -ambler, -farrier, -keeper,
coachman, smith...
Comments: Smith says "Cavelarice is merely an enlarged edition of How to
Chuse, etc." Book VII deals with veterinary matters--"anatomy of the
horse according to Vegetius and Blundeville.... All the diseases of the
feet are dealt with in seven lines." Pady notes that Markham borrows from
Salomon de Las Broue's "Le Cavalerice Fran‡ois," and "He discovered that
the public did not care for anything but 'cures'. Every man made his own
diagnosis...."First mention of de la Broue - and I assume also a
description of his "slipper shoe" for treatment of contracted heels.


Year Published: 1610
Author: Markham, Gervase
Title: Markham's Maister-Peece, or what doth a Horse-man lacke. Containing
all possible knowledge whatsoever which doth belong to any Smith, Farrier,
or Horse-Leech... drawne [from] all forraine Horse-Marshals of
Christendome...
Comments: Smith says: "Nothing before or since has exercisised so
disastrous an influence on veterinary education and progress."
Interestingly, Markham lists the best farriers as: Xenophon, Rusius,
Vegetius, Pelagonius, Camerarius, Appolonius, Grison, Grilli, Horatio,
Liebault, Stevens, Wikerus, La Broue, Martin, Clifford, Mascall, and
Markham. Interesting also that he neglected to mention Blundeville, from
whose work most of this is extracted.First use of the term "Frog" of the
horse's foot (SmithI-266).


Year Published: 1618
Author: Baret, Michael
Title: An Hipponomie: or the Vineyard of Horsemanship: Deuided into Three
Bookes, with the Art of breeding and dieting Horses...etc.
Comments: Fleming notes: "Michael Baret...speaking of teaching a horse to
pace or amble, mentions 'tramels, heavy shoes, pasternes of lead, and
shoes of advantage' being used on the hind limbs, 'to keep the hinder
parts of the horse down, and to cause the hinder feete strike further
forward within his fore parts.'" Blundeville, 1566 (q.v.) recommended
heavy shoes only while the horse is first being schooled, afterwards to be
replaced by light shoes.


Year Published: 1622
Author: Beaugrand, Nicolas
Title: Le Mar‚chal Expert, Traictant du Naturel, et des Marques des Beaux
et Bons Chevaux, de Leurs Maladies & Remedes d'Icelles; Avec un examen &
Forme de l'Estat de Mar‚chal, et une Description de Toutes les Parties &
Ossemens..
Comments: Fleming lists this as a publication on veterinary medicine and
farriery.


Year Published: 1628
Author: Dumesnil,
Title: L'Art de la Mar‚chalerie
Comments: "The Art of Farriery" Fleming lists this as a publication on
veterinary medicine and farriery.


Year Published: 1630
Author: Markham, Gervase
Title: Markham's Faithfull Farrier, wherin the depth of his skill is layd
open in all those principall and approved secrets of Horsemanship which
the author never published but hath kept in his brest and hath beene...
practice
Comments: Markam wrote some 36 books, many of which went through numerous
editions and reprints. Smith says "All his veterinary work, like that of
Blundeville, lacks the real thing, the touch of practical experience
without which the story is lifeless and uninforming."


Year Published: 1639
Author: De la Grey, Thomas
Title: The Compeat Horseman and Expert Ferrier. In Two Bookes. The
First, Shewing...Choyce, Nature, Riding, and Dyeting...The Second...How to
Know and Cure All Maladies and Diseases in Horses...
Comments: As Gamgee quotes from the book: "What is the ferrier's art? It
principally consists of four things--to wit: science, experience,
knowledge, and handywork. Handywork is to heat the iron well, to sodder
well, to forge well, to turn a shoe well, to make and point a nail well,
to pare the hoof well, to cauterize well, to let blood well, to be light
and well-handed, bold and handy in dressing a horse well, of such
accidents as may happen...."NUC-DNAL; CtY;


Year Published: 1642
Author: Espinay,
Title: Le Grand Mar‚chalerie
Comments: Fleming lists this as a publication on veterinary medicine and
farriery.


Year Published: 1647
Author: Melzo, Ludwig
Title: Kriegs-Regeln, i.e. Wie eine Reuterey zu regieren... etc.
Comments: Karasszon, 1988, reproduces several illustrations from knight
Melzo's book, one of them is a drawing of various "horse-curing
instruments"; among which are horseshoes, a farrier's driving hammer, and
pincers.


Year Published: 1655
Author: Chifflet, Jean Jacques
Title: Anastasis Childerici I., Francorum Regis; Siue Thesaurus
Sepulchralis Tornaci Nerviorum Effossus, et Commentario Illustratus.
Comments: Concerning the findings in Belgium of the tomb of Childeric, who
lived in the 5th century, and founded the French monarchy. Fleming quotes
Chifflet: "'The remains of his (Childeric's) horse were found: the bones
of the head, the teeth, cheek-bones, and an iron shoe; but the latter was
so eaten away by rust, that while I was trying to cleanse the nail
holes--of which there were 4 on each side-- ...the rotten iron broke in
pieces..'"First horseshoe found... many question the validity -- all the
horse's bones, but just one shoe... see Fleming page 100. Also see B.
Clark "A Series..." pg. 144-5; he says the opening the tomb is on pg. 224
of Chifflet.Bits were commonly found, but no horseshoes were found in
other graves of this period which contained horse bones. (Fleming pg. 159)


Year Published: 1657
Author: Cavendish, William, (1st Duke of Newcastle)
Title: M‚thode et invention nouvelle de dresser les chevaux, par Prince
Guillaume Marquis et Comte de Newcastle, etc. ... [transl. into French by
Walloon]
Comments: "Method and new invention of training the horse... "


Year Published: 1660
Author: Ud-Din Ahmad, Nizam
Title: a Persian MS. on farriery
Comments: Besides listing it with the books pertaining to the foot and
shoeing, Huth says it deals with "Creation and domestication of the Horse.
... Rules concerning the rearing of Horses and the running of races....
Treatment of the diseases of the Horse."


Year Published: 1660
Author: Beaumont,
Title: Le Nouveau Parfait Mar‚chal
Comments: "The New Perfect Farrier"Fleming lists this as a publication
on veterinary medicine and farriery.


Year Published: 1662
Author: Prome,
Title: Le Grand Mar‚chal Fran‡aise
Comments: "The Great French Farrier"Fleming lists this as a publication
on veterinary medicine and farriery.


Year Published: 1663
Author: Delcampe,
Title: L'Art de Monter … Cheval. Que Monstre la Belle & Facille Methode de
se Rendre Bon Homme de Cheval. Par le Sr. Delcampe
Comments: "The Art of Training the Horse" Fleming lists this as a
publication on veterinary medicine and farriery. The book appears to deal
only with the training of horses, and not medicine or farriery, however,
in the drawings of horses in motion one type of shoe is consistently
shown--a flat, plain, stamped shoe which has a much broader web at the toe
than at the heels.


Year Published: 1664
Author: Solleysel, Jacques Labessie de
Title: Le Parfait Mar‚chal, que enseigne … connoistre la beaute et les
d‚fauts des Chevaux, les signes et les causes des Maladies; les moyens de
les prevenir... et les Preceptes pour bien emboucher les Chavaux... etc.
Comments: Smith says: "Seventeen chapters are devoted to injuries and
diseases of the limbs. ...the remedies are severe.... He adds little to
the subject. ...Contracted feet were dealt with by unsoling [as were
ringbone, bruised foot, and canker] and dividing the foot pad through the
cleft.... A long description of the method of removing the sole is given
and we are informed that to facilitate dressing, a nailless shoe has been
employed..."Often cited as the first to comment on "pointing" of the foot
as a sign of disease (SmithI-353), but Heresbach, 1577, and others were
earlier.This is in more than half a dozen U.S. libraries.


Year Published: 1667
Author: Cavendish, William, (1st Duke of Newcastle)
Title: A New Method and Extraordinary Invention to Dress Horses and Work
them according to Nature, as also to Perfect Nature by the Subtilty of
Art; which was never found out but by the Thrice Noble, High and Puissant
Prince...
Comments: According to Smith this is a re-write of the book of nearly the
same title which Newcastle had translated into French and published in
1658 (q.v.)--they are very similar--the English one without illustrations.
Smith says he recommended paring the sole--though not so thin as to make
it tender. He was friends with Solleysel and maintained correspondence
with him throughout his life. Cavendish is usually referred to as
"Newcastle."


Year Published: 1671
Author: Halfpenny, John
Title: The Gentleman's Jockey and Approved Farrier: instructing in the
natures, causes, and cures of all diseases incident to horses... With
divers other curiosities collected by the long practice... of J. H., Esq.
Comments: I don't know that this book has anything on shoeing per se, but
it is included for its mention of sidebones, and the fact that the WFC
charter, 1674, names a Thomas Halfpenny to serve as head of the group in
1675, following Andrew Snape (Prince-233). Smith says: "One curious
reference is to a strain of the 'ciffin-joynt or a sive-bone in the socket
of the hoof'; if the latter means 'side-bone', it is the first reference
to this disease..."Smith says: "The fat sucking mastiff and recently
killed cat figure as master-medicines for strain of the back tendons,
without any reference to the source of information [which was Markham]."
Desoling is recommended for treatment of founder, and is described in
detail.


Year Published: 1672
Author: Solleysel, Jacques Labessie de
Title: Der Vollkommene Stall=Meister
Comments: "The Complete Stall Master"


Year Published: 1673
Author: Almond, Robert
Title: English Horseman and Complete Farrier... with the humours of a
Smithfield Jockey. by Robert Almond, a well-known and skilful Farrier of
the City of London, practicing therein above 45 years.
Comments: Smith says: "We are told, as usual, that this work has been
produced for the good of his country. The author has the honesty to
acknowledge his indebtedness to Blundeville, Markham, and De Gray.His
book is nothing more than extracts from these writers. There is not an
original observation recorded." Huth lists it as having to do with the
foot and shoeing.


Year Published: 1677
Author: Solleysel, Jacques Labessie de
Title: Le Veritable Parfait Mar‚chal
Comments: "The Truly Perfect Farrier"


Year Published: 1678
Author: Galvao de Andrade, Antonio
Title: Arte de Cavaller¡a de Gineta, e Estardiota; bom primor de ferrar; e
Alveitar¡a, dividada en tres tratados, que contem varios discursos, e
experiencias novas desta Arte.
Comments: From the title, it would seem to give advice on riding, shoeing,
and veterinary work on horses.


Year Published: 1678
Author: R., E.
Title: The experienced farrier, or farring compleated. In two books,
physical and chyrurgical, bringing pleasure to the gentleman, and profit
to the countrey-man ... by E. R. gent.
Comments: Only about 14 pages on hoofs and shoes, but some good: "If the
hoof be... spreading out of the sides and quarters, that Horse for the
most part hath narrow heels, and in continuance of time will be flat
Footed, which is a weak Foot, and will not carry a Shoo long, nor Travel
far...and such Feet through their weakness be much subject to false
quarters, and to Graveling, which is most commonly seen in.. horses.. such
as are bred on moist Grounds."Fit the shoe to the foot (pg 104), 106 "If
the Frush be broad, then the Heels be weak and so soft, as you may almost
bend them together..."; pg 108: "it is the short foot that makethe the
strong leg, and the long Foot makethe the weak leg"....
also pg108 - 4 nails inside, 5 outside, because the outside wears more.


Year Published: 1683
Author: Snape, Andrew, Junior
Title: The Anatomy of an Horse, containing an exact and full description
of the Frame, Situation, and Connection of all his parts expressed in 49
Copper plates. To which is added...Motion of the Chyle and Circulation of
the Blood..
Comments: Based on Ruini's "Anatomy of the Horse" 1598; this was the first
work on equine anatomy to be published in English. Smith quotes from
Snape:"This is not my bare opinion, but the experience of those that have
success in curing foundered horses, who by rasing [incising] the hoof from
the coronet or top of it to the very bottom in 5 or 6 places... have made
these horses sound...." Andrew Snape was the first Master of the W.C.F.
after its Charter.First to describe hoof grooving, or section for
laminitis (see Smith,I-334). Andrew Snape was Master of the W.C.F. in
1674-75 (Prince pg 90).


Year Published: 1693
Author: Ray, John
Title: Classification of Quadrupeds
Comments: Smith says that Ray was the son of an Essex blacksmith
[farrier?], and that this book is considered the first truly systematic
arrangement of animals since Aristotle. Smith continues:"It was based on
the numbers of digits and teeth. The work is in Latin, which he wrote with
as great facility as English. It is a rigidly scientific book, in which
all authorities and observers are quoted."


Year Published: 1694
Author: Lude¤a, Bartolome Guerrero
Title: Arte de herrar caballos, Aora nuevamente compuesto
Comments: The title roughly translated is "The art of shoeing horses, now
newly composed", or in other words, another "new system of horseshoeing".


Year Published: 1696
Author: Solleysel, Jacques Labessie de
Title: The compleat horseman: discovering the surest marks of the beauty,
goodness, faults and imperfections of horses: the signs and causes of
their diseases... etc. by Sir William Hope... Made English from the 8th
ed. ...
Comments: Hope translated Solleysel's 8th ed., published in Paris, 1691.
"There should be a distinction made betwixt two methods of shoeing: the
first and most useful method is, to shoe for the advantage of the foot,
and according to it's nature and shape, so to fit shoes to it, that may
make it better than it is, and if it be good may preserve it... the second
method is that which disguiseth the foot, and make it appear good, when it
really is not, and this... through time, wholly ruines the foot...." (pg.
118). "The nails of Limoges and Argenton are preferable to others, those
of Limoges are soft and tough for no other reason, but because they forge
them with char-coal made of the chestnut tree which hath an oyliness in it
that mollifies the iron...." (pg. 120).


Year Published: 1700
Author: Cavendish, William, (1st Duke of Newcastle)
Title: Das Welt-Berhmten Hertzog Wilhelm von Neucastle, Neu-Er”ffnete
Reit-Bahn ... Durch Herrn von Solleisel ... Aus dem Englischen in
Franz”sische Versetz ... ins Reine Teutsche Gebracht von J. P. F.
Perrnauer
Comments: "The world-famous Count William of Newcastle, newly opened
riding ring ... written by Solleysel ... translated from the English to
the French ... and then translated into clean German by J.P.F. Perrnauer"


Year Published: 1701
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: Grand Mar‚chal, Expert et Fran‡ais
Comments: Fleming (1869), page 500 says that the unknown author "actually
describes the neurotomy operation" for the relief of hoof disease--which I
assume to be navicular. Sewell is generally credited with devising the
operation, and although Moorcroft had a prior claim (see Moorcroft, 1846),
this predates him as well.First description of neurotomy operation for
horse's foot.


Year Published: 1701
Author: Belloste, Augustin
Title: Den heelkonstige verband-huys-meester, onderwyzende om op een
zagte, gemakkelykke on spoedige wyse allen zoorten van wonden te geneezen.
...zeer dienstig tot het verband der hoef-wonden naar gedaane trepaan...
Comments: "...bandaging hoof-wounds after trephining..."


Year Published: 1702
Author: Solleysel, Jacques Labessie de
Title: The Compleat Horseman and Perfect Farrier abridged & transl. by Wm.
Hope
Comments: Of these abridged translations by Hope, Smith says: "The
essential features of Solleysel were entirely suppressed--doubtless in
accordance with public taste and ignorance." Yet Fleming notes some good
from the 1706 ed.: "His advice is to keep the sole strong by refraining
from paring it, to make the shoe fit the foot instead of the foot fit the
shoe, and to take a short thick hold of the wall with the nails, is
excellent."See SmithI-354 - "a man cannot teach what he does not know, and
that when smiths [not farriers!] have failed to make a shoe according to
his instructions, he has taken the matter in hand himself." His is the
province of the farrier: riding, horse management, shoeing, herbs, etc....
Smith however, calls him a veterinarian.


Year Published: 1710
Author: Sampayo, Joao Tyxeira de
Title: Practica de Cavallar¡a onde se contem Arte de ensinar, conhecer e
criar os Cavallos. Arte de enfrear os Cavallos a brida com estampas de
todos os freyos, e arte de ferrar os Cavallos
Comments: "Practice of Horsemanship... and art of shoeing Horses"


Year Published: 1720
Author: Gibson, William
Title: The Farrier's New Guide, containing, First, the anantomy of a
Horse, ... Secondly, an account of all the diseases incident to horses....
The whole interspersed with many curious and useful observations... etc.
Comments: Smith has little good to say about this book, and is of the
opinion that when he wrote it at age 40, Gibson had no practical
experience in veterinary medicine--despite the fact that he had served in
a cavalry unit and studied Snape, Vegetius, Solleysel, Markham, Ruini, and
Blundeville. Smith has a good case for this as he lists some foolish
notions in Gibson's book, and which authors had previously stated them.
Smith prefers Gibson,1751.


Year Published: 1721
Author: Gibson, William
Title: The True Method of Dieting Horses, containing many curious and
useful observations.... also... the right ordering of troop horses, with a
discourse of breeding, founded on the Duke of Newcastle's short method
[etc.]
Comments: Smith notes: "One looks in vain in this work for any description
of good and bad hay, sound or unsound oats. Nowhere does he state the
amount of food to be given daily...." also "He refers to the subject of
shoeing and the bad condition of the roads in London.... In speaking of
care of the feet, he says that no cautions need be given in the Army,
'where so much care is taken to provide persons sufficiently qualified for
that purpose.'"


Year Published: 1721
Author: Gibson, William
Title: The Farrier's Dispensatory, In Three Parts. Containing, I. A
Description of the medicinal Simples... II. The Preparations of Simples,
Vegetable, Animal and Mineral... III. A Number of useful Compositions....
Comments: Smith notes: "The basis of this work is DeQuincey's 'London
Dispensatory,' together with receipts drawn from Blundeville, Ruini,
Markham, and Solleysel. It is the first veterinary pharmacopia in the
English language, and also deals with therapeutics according to existing
knowledge." It was intended to be a complement to "The Farrier's New
Guide."


Year Published: 1727
Author: Panciroli, Guido
Title: The History of many memorable things lost, 2 vols.[transl. into
English]
Comments: Huth says Chapter XVI, Volume II, of the 1727 edition, is
entitled "Of Saddles, Stirrups and Horse Shoes,"-- and gives an account of
their origin.


Year Published: 1729
Author: L”hneisen, G. E.
Title: Neu=er”ffnete Hof=Kriegs= und Reit=Schul. Vor die Augen gestellet
von Valentin Trichter.
Comments: See notes under Broue, 1593.


Year Published: 1730
Author: Burdon, William
Title: The Gentleman's Pocket Farrier, Shewing How to Use Your Horse on a
Journey, And What Remedies are Proper for Common Misfortunes That May
Befal Him on the Road by Capt. William Burdon
Comments: Smith says: "He admits that there are a few farriers who 'are
good and sensible men,' but points out that defective education stands in
the way of all. He refers to the system of education existing in his day,
by which apprentices were bound to farriers, served their time, and after
being placed in possession of `secrets' handed down from master to man
from time immemorial, were then regarded as fully equipped."The "Patten"
shoe is mentioned, but it apparently is more like our "stifle shoe" as it
is used to prevent the horse from using the sound limb (SmithII-25). See
also "Patten" in the Glossary.


Year Published: 1732
Author: Snape, Andrew, Junior
Title: Anatomie g‚n‚ral du cheval.[transl. into French by F. A.
Garsault]
Comments:


Year Published: 1733
Author: Robichon de la Gu‚riniŠre, Fran‡ois
Title: cole de Cavalerie, Contenant la Connoissance, l'Instruction, et la
Conservation du Cheval. Avec Figures en Taille-Douce.
Comments: Fleming says this is the first mention of clips: "Lagueriniere
speaks of the farriers burning the horny sole, to make it the more easily
pared, and the dangers of this practice. ...Then he speaks of the clips
of the shoe only being made hot to fit it to the foot of carriage
horses..."
Zundel, 1883, says: "Lagueriniere...prepared a shoe composed of three
pieces ...its branches were spread apart...dilation of the hoof was
obtained."That could be painful. Fleming says this is the first mention
of clips(?) -- however, there appear to be clips in Fiaschi'sdrawings.
Also the first mention of burning of the soles to make them more easily
pared -- "ferrure a chaud." Also seems to be the first mention of a
slightly more rational 3-piece, 2-jointed shoe--instead of one joint at
the toe.


Year Published: 1733
Author: Bracken, Henry
Title: The Gentleman's Pocket Farrier, by Captain Burdon, With large
additions and remarks by Henry Bracken, M.D.
Comments: Smith says: "Similarly as regards surgery, the farrier did the
work, while Bracken directed and supervised the operation, for, strange as
it may seem, Bracken could teach others what to do in case of disease, but
he did not treat his own property! ....He impresses on his readers that
time and rest, which he prints in capital letters, are essential,
especially in the treatment of injuries and lameness."


Year Published: 1733
Author: Robichon de la Gu‚riniŠre, Fran‡ois
Title: Schule der Reitkunst. šbersetzung von S. von Haugk
Comments: "School of the Art of Riding. Translated by S. von Haugk"


Year Published: 1734
Author: Saunier, Jean de
Title: La Parfaite Connaissance des Chevaux, Leur Anatomie, Leurs Bonnes
et Mauvaises Qualitez, Leurs Maladies et les Remedes Qui y Conviennent;...
Continuee et Donn‚e au Public par G. de Saunier
Comments: "The Perfect Knowledge of Horses..." Fleming mentions this as a
treatise on shoeing. Zundel says: "Gaspard Saunier improved upon this
shoe [Lagueriniere's 3-piece, 2-jointed] by placing on the internal border
of the branches, cranks [stepped teeth], with a plate placed crosswise and
resting upon them [holding them a fixed distance apart]." He shows a
drawing of this shoe, which was used to treat contraction of the hoof.


Year Published: 1735
Author: Burdon, William
Title: Gentleman's Pocket Farrier, Shewing How to Use Your Horse on a
Journey, and What Remedies are Proper for Common Misfortunes that may
Befal Him on the Road
Comments: See notes on the 1730 London edition.


Year Published: 1737
Author: Allen, Matthew
Title: The Farrier's Assistant, or an Essay on the Nature and Proceedings
of Distempers incidental to Horses by Matthew Allen, Farrier
Comments: Huth lists it as having to do with the foot and shoeing.


Year Published: 1737
Author: Bracken, Henry
Title: Farriery Improv'd, or a compleat treatise upon the art of
Farriery... whereby any gentleman may be able to judge for himself whether
or no he is imposed upon by ignorant grooms and other pretenders to this
Art... etc.
Comments: Smith says: "On 'Diseases of the Feet' he is very brief, owing
to ignorance. All foot troubles he appears to ascribe to gravel working
into the foot.... Speaking generally, his views on the foot are not
advanced; it is true he was in favor of a thick sole, but he says the
'frog' should be small, as otherwise the animal is liable to stumble on an
uneven road![true] On the subject of 'Shoeing'... very little is said,
nothing of any value."See also notes on Adancourt, 1815.


Year Published: 1741
Author: Garsault, Fran‡ois Alexandre Pierre de
Title: Le Nouveau Parfait Mar‚chal, ou la Connoissance G‚n‚rale et
Universelle du Cheval
Comments: "The New Perfect Farrier..."Fleming mentions the 1755 edition
as having a treatise on shoeing [chapt. 6, of 27 pages]. He also deals
with forging the shoes. Zundel mentions him: "A better way, at least for
toe crack, is that which consists of suturing the edges...by metalic
clasps, which immobilize the hoof. ...Clasps ... fix the hoof locally,
and are an old means of treatment, having been used by Solleysel and
Garsault."Among the many shoes pictured, is a hinged emergency replacement
shoe with many nail holes placed in two rows, one coarse, one fine.


Year Published: 1742
Author: Monto y Roca, Salvador
Title: Sanidad del cavallo, y otros animales sujetos al arte de
albeyter¡a, ilustrada con el de herrar ...
Comments: "Health of the horse, and other animals subject to the art of
veterinary medicine, illustrated with the shoeing..."


Year Published: 1745
Author: Columella, L. J. M.
Title: Husbandry [anonymous translation into English of De Re Rustica]
Comments: See Columella, 55.


Year Published: 1747
Author: Bourgelat, Claude G.
Title: Le Nouveau Newkastle; ou, Nouveau Trait‚ de Cavalerie
Comments: "The New Newcastle, or New Treatise on Cavalry"


Year Published: 1750
Author: Bourgelat, Claude G.
Title: l‚mens d'Hippiatrique; ou, Nouveaux Principes sur la Connaissance
et sur la M‚dicine des Chevaux.
Comments: The first volume has 58 pages on the hoof, and 37 pages on
shoeing.


Year Published: 1751
Author: Gibson, William
Title: A New Treatise on the Diseases of Horses: Wherein what is necessary
to the Knowledge of a Horse, The Cure of his Diseases, and other
Matters... Many Years Practice and Experience; with the cheapest and most
efficacious...
Comments: Smith says: "Gibson's views in 1751 afford us an index to the
condition of veterinary medicine in the middle of the 18th century, and as
such constitute a valuable record. ...disappointing... in connection
with... diseases and injuries of the foot. ...Laminitis is not even
mentioned! ...He says that thrush may be beneficial, as it draws off bad
humours! [Coleman adopted the same view half a century later.]
...Sidebones... not mentioned..."


Year Published: 1751
Author: Bridges, Jeremiah
Title: No foot, no horse; an Essay on the Anatomy of the Foot of that
noble and useful animal a Horse, wherein each part is accurately
described, their structure, use and conformation considered, the Disorders
of each part,...etc.
Comments: Fleming says Bridges informs us that "The horses bred in
Derbyshire, the mountainous parts of England and Wales... have good feet;
while those reared on low marshy ground... have commonly flat and soft
feet..." and he quotes Bridges: "The best method to keep the foot sound is
good shoeing; liberty, sometimes in pasture; or proper exercise. Standing
long in stables contracts the feet." Smithcors, 1957, credits him with
discovering expansion.For laminitis he left the case at liberty on a good
bed (Smith 1976 v.2 p.66). For contraction he uses a screw shoe
[expansion w/ bar clips?]; also a grooving operation (Smith 1976, v.2
p.66). Hickman (1985, p.8) notes that he recommended shoes with sloping
clips [bar clips?] to counter contracted feet -- this is later called the
Einsiedel shoe.


Year Published: 1752
Author: Bridges, Jeremiah
Title: Versuch einer genauen Zergliederung der Pferdefsse, Behandlung
ihrer Zuf„lle und die n”thigen Mittel dagegen. Aus d. Engl.
Comments: "Essay on the exact Anatomy of Horse hoofs"


Year Published: 1753
Author: Bartlet, John
Title: The Gentlemen's Farriery, a practical treatise on the Diseases of
Horses wherein the best writers on the subject have been consulted; and M.
LaFosse's Method... considered...etc. by J. Bartlet, Surgeon
Comments: Smith says: "In cases of Quittor we are told to cut away the
'rotten flesh' and apply the actual cautery to the 'rotted coffin bone'!
On questions of lameness, diseases of the feet and shoeing he copies
La Fosse, whom he acknowledges. These were subjects on which, had he been
in practice, he could have given first-hand information. As a
matter of fact he knew nothing whatever of them." Shoeing was dealt with
after the 1754 ed.In the 4th ed., 1759, the 18 page section on shoeing is
a condensation of Lafosse, 1754, including reproductions of all the
original illustrations.


Year Published: 1754
Author: Lafosse, tienne Guillaume
Title: Observations et d‚couvertes faites sur de chevaux, avec une
nouvelle practique sur la ferrure...
Comments: Smith comments: "It is remarkable how truth may be lost, while
error is certain of vigorous growth and longevity." So true--not only
were Lafosse's good ideas overlooked, but his bad ones were adopted--he
found frog pressure helpful in cases of weak heels and wrongly/hastily
recommended it for all horses....plus many more mistakes. He recommended
a tip shoe and low hoof angle--is it any wonder he was an early observer
of navicular?On page 11 he describes a supposed shoulder lameness which
was actually in the foot (navicular) - odd for several reasons: he calls
it a compression, but says it's "as if between an anvil and hammer" which
is more like concussion.... and, says "it raises the nut-bone against the
tendon, which puts the fleshy sole in a state of compression" - so why
frog pressure???


Year Published: 1754
Author: Bourgelat, Claude G.
Title: A New System of Horsemanship [El‚mens d'hippiatrique... translated
from the French by Richard Berenger]
Comments:


Year Published: 1755
Author: Gibson, William
Title: Mr. Gibson's Short Practical Method of Cure for Horses... by his
son, William Gibson
Comments: Smith says: "This is merely a digest of the father's 'Treatise
on the Diseases of Horses'. ...The only original portion is contained in
the last 5 pages... [of which] The best section is the 2 pages on shoeing,
in which he severely condemns the practice of paring out the sole and of
cutting away the 'frog'."


Year Published: 1755
Author: Lafosse, tienne Guillaume
Title: Observations and Discoveries made upon Horses, with a new Method of
Shoeing, enlarged and improved from the last edition of the French of the
Sieur La Fosse, Farrier to the King of France, with copper plates
Comments: "The goodness or badness of a thing [has] but little control
upon our inconstancy. We grow tired of every thing; and one man to
surpass another, invents shoes of different shapes, lengths, and
thickness, to which he does not fail to attribute various properties and
advantages: the multitude, more credulous than instructed, are easily
persuaded.... if these poor animals... could have given their opinion
nothing of this would have happened." How true!He invented horse nails
with sloping shoulders pg 97, ill. pg. 77; he rightly (in part)
attributesquarter cracks to contraction of the heels, and
contraction of theheels to paring of the frog, sole and bars (pg. 90);
he was against long shoes, which he said acted as a patten, and against
caulks (p 87)
he used unsoling for various disorders; "99% lameness is in foot" - p24


Year Published: 1756
Author: Garsault, Fran‡ois Alexandre Pierre de
Title: Le Gentilhomme Mar‚chal
Comments: Rodet, 1841, cites this.


Year Published: 1756
Author: Lafosse, tienne Guillaume
Title: Nouvelle Pratique de Ferrer les Chevaux de Selle et de Carosse
par M. LaFosse Mar‚chal des Petites curies du Roi
Comments: Fleming quotes him as saying: "It often happens that, to make
the foot pleasant to look at, the horn of the sole is removed... It is the
pared foot which is most affected with what is termed contracted or weak
inside quarter, and which also lames the horse. It also happens that one
or both quarters contract.... The fashion of paring the hoofs, and
especially the heels, within which are the bars, causes
contraction...."While Yale, PA, and others list this as being by Philippe
tienne Lafosse, Yale notes that it first appeared as part of
"Observations et d‚couvertes...", 1754, which was by tienne Guillaume
Lafosse, the father -- so I credit this book to him, though with some
doubt and confusion.


Year Published: 1758
Author: Mar‚chaux, Maitres
Title: Reponse … la Nouvelle Pratique de Ferrer du Sieur Lafosse. Par les
Maitres Mar‚chaux de Paris
Comments: "Response to the New Practice of Shoeing of Mr. Lafosse. by the
Master Farriers of Paris" Fleming say: "The farriers of Paris, indeed,
unanimously protested against the innovation [short shoes and frog
pressure] 2 years after Lafosse had published his treatise, and their
protest appears to have carried the mind of the crowd."Osmer, 1759
(pg.38), said trying Lafosse's method lamed his hunting horse in both
front legs, the first time out!


Year Published: 1758
Author: Bracken, Henry
Title: Des Heinrich Brackens verbesserte Rossarztneikunst, worinnen die
Natur und Beschaffenheit eines Pferdes, seine Krankheiten und Zuf„lle, wie
auch die Weise solchen abzuhelfen hinl„nglich gezeiget wird, ... etc.
Comments: "Henry Bracken's improved art of farriery, wherein the nature
and accomplishments of the horse, its diseases and accidents, as well as
methods how to prevent are shown at length..."


Year Published: 1759
Author: Lafosse, tienne Guillaume
Title: Anmerkungen und Entdeckungen an Pferden, sammt einer neuen Art,
Pferde zu beschlagen. A. d. Franz”s.
Comments: "Observations and Discoveries on Horses, with a new Method of
Shoeing" Translated from the French by D.G. Schreber.


Year Published: 1759
Author: Ronden,
Title: Observations sur des Articles Concernant la Mar‚chalerie
Comments: "Observations on Subjects Concerning Farriery"


Year Published: 1759
Author: Osmer, William
Title: A Treatise on the Diseases and Lameness of Horses, in which is laid
down a proper method of shoeing (in general) and treating the different
kinds of feet. ...some new observations in the Art of Farriery...etc.
Comments: From the 3rd ed.: "A very little reflection will teach us,
whence the custom arose of shoeing horses in one part of the world and not
in another: in Asia there is no such custom as that of shoeing horses at
all, because the feet acquire a very obdurate and firm texture from the
dryness of the climate and soil, and really want no defence." (pg 5) also,
"Greasing and stopping... feet... will render them more weak and more
spongy...." (pg 49)He recommended a grooving operation for laminitis (as
did Snape) and said it was of no use for contraction. Smith says he was
the first to use the terms crust and wall, and was the first English
writer to drawn attention to the ossification of the lateral cartilages.
Located the "sudden compression" disease Lafosse spoke of as being in the
navicular bone.


Year Published: 1759
Author: Reeves, John
Title: The Art of Farriery Both in Theory and Practice; containing the
causes, symptoms, and cure of all diseases incident to horses.
...Revised, corrected, and enlarged. A new method of curing strain in the
back sinews...
Comments: He like the "half-moon shoe" and Lafosse: "It is an established
fact that a horse...sooner tires if his frog does not bear upon the
ground, which is the only point of support to the tendon.... ...I have
often been surprised that this new method invented by La Fosse has not
been more universally adopted." (pg.370)Thank goodness it wasn't!


Year Published: 1759
Author: Wallis, Thomas
Title: The Farrier's and Horseman's Complete Dictionary: containing the
Art of Farriery in all its branches, with whatsoever relates to the manege
and to the knowledge of breeding, feeding, and dieting of Horses...by the
best....
Comments: Smith says: "The work is a compilation from previous writers.
...and presents a good synopsis of the veterinary practice of the time.
He quotes all his authorities; apparently he had no personal knowledge of
the matters dealt with." Huth lists the 1764 ed. as having to do with the
foot and shoeing.Prince-98, mentions a Thomas Wallis & Co. -- I wonder who
they were and what they sold.


Year Published: 1760
Author: Kersting, Joh. Adam
Title: Unterricht Pferde zu beschlagen und die an den Fszen der Pferde
vorgefallene Gebrechen zu heilen
Comments: "Instruction in Horseshoeing and Healing of Horses' Feet"


Year Published: 1760
Author: Kersting, Joh. Adam
Title: Der sichere und wohlerfahrne Huf- und Reitschmied
Comments: "The secure and experienced Horseshoer and Marshal"


Year Published: 1760
Author: Lafosse, tienne Guillaume
Title: Nueva practica de herrar los caballos de monte y de coche   fin de
precaverlos de muchas desgracias, y hacerlos firmes en todo tiempo sobre
el empedrado aunque sea de losas...etc. [Transl. by Pedro Pablo Pomar]
Comments: A Spanish translation of "Observations et decouvertes...",
1754-56


Year Published: 1761
Author: Herbert, Henry, 10th Earl of Pembroke
Title: A Method of Breaking Horses & Teaching Soldiers to Ride, Designed
for the Use of the Army
Comments: Pembroke seems to have had little good to say about farriers.
As Gamgee quotes him: "They completely destroy the inner part of the hoof
with their buttress...." and "Physic and the buttress, in well-informed
hands, would not be fatal; but in the manner we are now provided with
farriers, they must be quite prohibited." and "The utmost severity ought
to be inflicted upon all who clap shoes on hot; this unpardonable
laziness...."He apparently liked Bourgelat, James Clark, Newcastle, and
probably Osmer.


Year Published: 1763
Author: Herissant,
Title: M‚decine des Chevaux
Comments: "Horse Medicine"


Year Published: 1764
Author: Markham, Gervase
Title: The Citizen and Countryman's Experienced Farrier... To All Which is
Added, A Valuable and Fine Collection of the Surest and Best Receipts in
the Known World... by J. Markham, G. Jefferies, and Discreet Indians
Comments:


Year Published: 1764
Author: Markham, Gervase
Title: The Citizen and Countryman's Experienced Farrier... To All Which is
Added, A Valuable and Fine Collection of the Surest and Best Receipts in
the Known World... by J. Markham, G. Jefferies, and Discreet Indians
Comments: Smithcors says this was one of the first American veterinary
works with wide circulation. The DNLM online catalog has this note: "John
Millis, a farrier residing in Chester County...gathered a large number of
proved receipts from George Jefferies, of Bradford Township, a noted
farrier, and others, and included the whole, with his own experience, in
this publication.: Futhey & Cope, "Hist. of Chester Co., PA" 1881 p.
312."


Year Published: 1766
Author: Lafosse, Philippe tienne
Title: Guide du mar‚chal; ouvrage contenant une connoissance exacte du
cheval, & la maniŠre de distinguer & de gu‚rir les maladies, ensemble un
trait‚ de la ferrure gui lui est convenable. Par M. Lafosse
Comments: "Farrier's Guide;..." Incidently, La Fosse translates as "the
cesspool."


Year Published: 1766
Author: Stubbs, George
Title: The Anatomy of the Horse, including a particular description of the
Bones, Cartilages, Muscles, Fascias, Ligaments, Nerves, Arteries, Veins
and Glands, in eighteen tables all done from nature. by George Stubbs,
painter
Comments: Stubbs did an anatomical study of the horse for his own
education, and that of other painters and sculpters. He tried to position
the horse as in life, and take off layer after layer of muscles down to
the skeleton. His work was masterful and has been of great value to
anatomists and veterinarians as well as artists. His other paintings and
portraits of horses are some of the most accurate and life-like ever
seen.Stubbs did not call the hoof laminae a muscle as both Bridges and J.
Clark did after him (SmithII-111).


Year Published: 1766
Author: Sind, J. B. von
Title: Die Kunst Pferde zu z„umen und zu beschlagen
Comments: "The Art of Horse bridling and shoeing"


Year Published: 1766
Author: Sind, J. B. von
Title: Manuel du cavalier, qui renferme les connaissances n‚cessaires pour
conserver le cheval en sant‚, & pour le gu‚rir en cas de maladie. Seconde
‚dition, revue, corrig‚e, consid‚rablement augment‚e par M. le baron de
Sind
Comments: "Manual for horsemen, which includes the necessary knowledge to
keep the horse healthy, and cure it in case of illness."


Year Published: 1767
Author: Weyrother, Anton de
Title: L'utile … tout le monde; ou, Le parfait ‚cuyer militaire et de
campagne. Divis‚ en quatre livres. 1. De la connoissance du cheval. 2. De
la cure des chevaux. 3. De la ferrure. 4. Des qualit‚s & devoir du parfait
‚cyuer
Comments: "The benefit of the whole world; or, the perfect military
horsesman..."


Year Published: 1767
Author: Saunier, Jean de
Title: Vollst„ndige Erkenntniss von Pferden. šbersetzung von C. H.
Wilcken
Comments: "Complete Knowledge of Horses. Translated by C.H. Wilcken"


Year Published: 1768
Author: Sind, J. B. von
Title: Vollst„ndige Abhandlung von der Reh=Krankheit der Pferde,...
Comments: "Complete Listings of the Deer Horse Disease" [?]


Year Published: 1770
Author: Clark, James [Scot.]
Title: Observations upon the Shoeing of Horses, with an Anatomical
description of the Bones of the Foot of the Horse
Comments: Smith says in the 1st edition the anatomy is limited to naming
of the parts which are pictured. also "Clark was not the first to
present the subject of the shoeing of horses and the physiology of the
foot in its modern dress, La Fosse and Osmer preceded him, and his first
act is to acknowledge the priority of their work... The advantage which
Clark possessed over La Fosse, &...Osmer,was his practical knowledge of
the subject of shoeing."


Year Published: 1771
Author: Berenger, Richard
Title: The History and Art of Horsemanship.
Comments: The National Union Catalog notes that it includes translations
of Claude Bourgelat's "Elemens D'Hippatrique" and Xenophon's "Treatise on
Horsemanship" also Thomas Pownalls "Dissertation on the Ancient
Chariot."NUC - DLC; PU-V; PPULC; CtY;


Year Published: 1771
Author: Bourgelat, Claude G.
Title: Essai th‚orique et pratique sur la ferrure, … l'usage des ‚lŠves
des coles royales v‚t‚rinaires
Comments: Bourgelat was the founder and director of the French Royal
Veterinary Schools. He had studied both law and medicine and had been a
ridingintructor. Sainbel studied under Bourgelat before moving to
England and becoming the first head of the London Veterinary College.
Bourgelat chose M. Chabert, the best horseshoer in Paris, to teach
horseshoeing, and after Bourgelat's death, succeeded him as director of
the Veterinary Schools.First corrective shoeing? Fleming-491, quotes him
as speaking of corrective shoeing: "to prevent those false postions of the
limbs..."NUC--IU; PU; PPULC;


Year Published: 1772
Author: Lafosse, Philippe tienne
Title: Cours d'hippiatrique; ou, Trait‚ complet de m‚decine des chevaux,
orne de soixante & cinq planches gravees avec soin. Par M. LaFosse
Comments: Fleming says that Lafosse follows his father on shoeing--however
the quotation he gives suggests different ideas: "'After reasonably
shortening the foot with the corner of the boutoir, a groove is made
within the wall adjoining the horny sole; into this channel the hot shoe
is fitted. ...With this shoeing, the horse goes on the whole of the
crust...'"--the shoe is imbedded into, and presses against the
sole--OUCH!The frontispiece of this enormous (nearly 2 feet tall) book
shows very young students dissecting a horse's foot, with a few horseshoes
scattered on the floor. There are about 31 pages on shoeing, and forging,
although the bulk of this book is concerned with anatomy.


Year Published: 1772
Author: Bourgelat, Claude G.
Title: Anfangsgrnde der Vieharzneykunde, oder kurzer Begriff von der
Zergliederung des Pferdes.
Comments: "Origins of the veterianry art, or short description of the
dissection of horses"


Year Published: 1772
Author: Freeman, S.
Title: The Farrier's Vade-Mecum, or Gentleman's Pocket Companion, etc.
Comments: Smith says this is not Strickland Freeman (q.v.), and: "In the
treatment of splint we are advised to lay it open and chip it away with a
chisel! Among the directions for shoeing we are told that... the foot is
to be left higher at the heels than at the toe! ...The author introduces
some anatomy into his book, a compound extracted from Vegetius and
Markham."If his statement about leaving the heels higher than the toe is
interpreted as meaning not trimming away as much when dressing the hoof,
it is perfectly sensible.


Year Published: 1773
Author: Druts,
Title: L'Anti-Mar‚chal
Comments: "The Anti-Horseshoer" A very curious title.


Year Published: 1773
Author: Duts,
Title: L'Anti-Mar‚chal, ou le vrai miroir des maladies
Comments: Jauze says Duts follows Lafosse


Year Published: 1773
Author: Blount, James
Title: Practical Farriery, of the Complete Dictionary in whatever relates
to the Food, Management and Cure of Diseases incident to Horses
Comments: Smith says his name appeared differently on the 1st and 2nd
edition--once Blunt, and once Blount, also that there was nothing original
in it: "There is nothing good in this book which had not been said before,
and there is much which is bad. ...The portion of the dictionary dealing
with diseases is worthless. He copies La Fosse on shoeing, which is the
only good thing in the book [?]."


Year Published: 1775
Author: Solleysel, Jacques Labessie de
Title: Le Parfait Mar‚chal, [last ed. (20th?)]
Comments: Smith says: "The Art of Shoeing is a treatise in itself. He
says he studied the subject practically in the forge, as a man cannot
teach what he does not know....Solleysel urges that the heels of the
fore feet are not to be cut away, but left strong; this, he says will
prevent the feet from contracting." He recommends clips only for hind
shoes if they stomp at flies.Smith (I-354) says Solleysel complained "The
coachman and groom... are still more ignorant; they insist on instructing
the farrier, and having horses shod according to their notions." How
true!! Gamgee says: "Solleysel was sent by the French government to Italy
to study the subject [of farriery], and proved himself to have been wisely
chosen...."


Year Published: 1775
Author: Bartlet, John
Title: The Gentlemen's Farriery, a practical treatise on the Diseases of
Horses wherein the best writers on the subject have been consulted; and
LaFosse's Method... considered... etc. by J. Bartlet, Surgeon3rd ed.
Comments:


Year Published: 1775
Author: Clark, James [Scot.]
Title: Observations upon the Shoeing of Horses, together with a New
Inquiry into the Causes of Diseases in the Feet of Horses, in two parts.
Part I upon the Shoeing of Horses. Part II upon the Diseases of the Feet
Comments: Smith says: "In the preface he says there can be no greater
barrier to progress than the opinion that no room is left for further
improvement... He starts with a historical survey of shoeing and the care
of the feet, quoting Xenophon, Vegetius, and especially Berenger." Fleming
quotes him: "'Farriers in general are too desirous to excel one another in
making what is termed fine neat work; and that is no other than paring the
sole...'"Smith says: "There is a long article on Hoof-Bound of which 3
varieties are described, one a circular contraction of the crust
compressing the whole foot... He describes the symptoms of circular
contraction and the kind of animal most susceptible... This is navicular
disease..." He says it is due to paring out the sole and bars.


Year Published: 1776
Author: Lafosse, Philippe tienne
Title: Dictionnaire Raisonn‚ d'Hippiatrique, Cavalerie, ManŠge et
Mar‚chalerie
Comments: "Scientific Dictionary of Horsemanship, Cavalry, Training and
Horseshoeing"There are about 20 pages on shoes and shoeing.


Year Published: 1776
Author: Bourgelat, Claude G.
Title: Essai th‚orique et pratique sur la ferrure... [transl. into Italian
by Jac. Odardi]
Comments:


Year Published: 1776
Author: Weber, Christoph Friedrich
Title: Abhandlung von dem Bau und Nutzen des Hufs der Pferde und der
besten Art des Beschl„gs. 4te Aufl.
Comments: "Treatise on the Construction and Use of Horse Hoofs and the
best Way of Shoeing. 4th ed."


Year Published: 1777
Author: Clark, James [Scot.]
Title: Anmerkungen von der Hufbeschlage der Pferde und von den Krankheiten
an der Fssen der Pferde. [transl. from 2nd ed.]
Comments: "Observations on the Shoeing of Horses and on the Diseases of
Horses' Feet"


Year Published: 1777
Author: Mayer,
Title: Der Grndliche Hufschmied etc.
Comments: "The Fundamentals of Horseshoeing etc." Zundel, 1883, pg. 83
says: "Mayer has recommended a shoe whose internal border is thicker than
the external, in such a way that the plane of the plantar surface of the
shoe shall be inclined outwards,... and promotes... the dilation of the
foot. ...We have used it in almost complete contraction, an we think we
have noticed, with Hartmann, that the dilation once started by a
mechanical means,not too severely applied, nature continues it, with the
assistance of that style of shoe."


Year Published: 1778
Author: Bartlet, John
Title: Pharmacopie oder Apotheke eines Rossarztes; nach der dritten
Ausgabe mit einer Vorrede vom Rotze. [Translated from the English by W.H.
Seb. Bucholz]
Comments: A German translation of "The Gentlemen's Farriery..."


Year Published: 1778
Author: Herbert, Henry, 10th Earl of Pembroke
Title: Military Equitation: or a Method of Breaking Horses and Teaching
Soldiers to Ride, Designed for the Use of the Army, by Henry Earl of
Pembroke...3rd ed.
Comments: Pembroke seems to have nothing but contempt for the farrier--as
Fleming quotes him: "Whoever lets his farrier, groom, or coachman in
consideration of his having swept dung out of the stables...ever...
pretend to talk of the nature of feet, of the seat of lameness,... may be
certain to find himself... on foot." Pembroke was vehemently against the
use of the butteris, hot-fitting, and trimming of the frog. He promoted
frog pressure.Pugh, pg 38, says he was an admirer of James Clark and
Bourgelat.


Year Published: 1780
Author: Bouwinghausen, Franz Maximilien Friedrich
Title: Anweisung die Pferde besser und nsslicher als bisher zu
beschlagen, nebst den Krankheiten des Hufs und der Art solche zu heilen,
zum Gebrauch der gemeinen Schmiede, von F. M. F. Bouwinghausen von
Wallmerode ...
Comments: "Directions to Shoe Horses better...." Huth lists the author as
Wallmerode.


Year Published: 1780
Author: Gibson, William
Title: Abhandlung von den Krankheiten der Pferde und ihrer Heilung, etc.
šbersetzung von J. G. Ch. Koch
Comments: The original English edition was titled "A New Treatise on the
Diseases of Horses, etc."


Year Published: 1780
Author: Beckmann, Johann
Title: Beytr„ge zur Geschichte der Erfindungen
Comments: "Contributions to the History of Inventions" Huth notes "This
work contains an account of the origin of saddles, stirrups, and
horse-shoes." See also notes on Leo VI, 910.


Year Published: 1781
Author: Gesner, J. M.
Title: Vegetii Renati Artis Veterinariae Sive Mulomedicinae Libri Quatuor.
Comments:


Year Published: 1781
Author: Weber, Christoph Friedrich
Title: Om hast-hofwens bestands delar och dess nytta: jemte det basta och
naturligaste skoningssatt: afhandladt och til forelasningar ofwer samma
amne upsatt. af C. F. Weber; men nu pa swanska spraket efter den fierde
tyska.....
Comments: "On horse-shoe stock parts and its use: together with the best
and most natural shoeing method:..."


Year Published: 1782
Author: Chabert, [Philibert ?]
Title: Ferrure des Chevaux
Comments: "Shoeing Horses."Zundel says: "So little progress...and so
many false ideas were admitted [on canker], that Chabert in despair has
called canker the opprobrium of veterinary medicine." Gamgee says: "The
art of shoeing was presided over by Monsieur Chabert...best
horse-shoer.... Chabert became known afterwards as the professor who
succeeded to the directorship of the schools after Bourgelat's death; and
also the author of many works."Zundel also mentions Chabert's as one of
the voluminous works on the horse's foot.


Year Published: 1783
Author: Clater, Francis
Title: Every Man His Own Farrier, or the whole art of Farriery laid open,
containing the causes, symptoms and most approved methods of cure of the
Diseases of Horses and Dogs. by Francis Clater
Comments: Smith says: "The 1st edition of "Farrier", issued with so many
flourishes to the public, was merely a condensation of Gibson. The
chapters on Diseases of the Foot and Lameness are very weak... [as] this
was the case in the work he copied." Smith also says that the first 20
editions are without changes or revisions, due to an arrangement with the
publisher. The 21st ed. through the 24th ed. were revised by Clater; the
24th probably best.


Year Published: 1784
Author: Herbert, Henry, 10th Earl of Pembroke
Title: Military Equitation... [transl. into French by Bergeret de
Trouville]
Comments: Smith says that Pembroke's early life was greatly influenced by
his friendship with Bourgelat.


Year Published: 1785
Author: Lafosse, Philippe tienne
Title: Handbuch zum Gebrauch der Pferde„rzte bei Regimenten
Comments: A German translation of "Dictionnaire raisonn‚..." 1776.


Year Published: 1785
Author: Catalonia, Protoalbeitar
Title: Tarifa, hecha por Diego Albarez y Calderon de la Barca, protho-
albeytar por S.M. del pricipado de Cathaluna &c. Para el buen gobierno de
maestros herradores, lo que deben llebar, y percibir por cada una de
las....
Comments: Apparently this lists the allowable prices for veterinary and
shoeing services.


Year Published: 1786
Author: Rumpelt, Geo. Ludw.
Title: Unterricht fr die Churf. S„chs. Fahnenschmiede, vom vernnftigen
und zweckm„ssigen Beschl„ge der Pferde, sowohl bei gesunden als
fehlerhaften und kranken Fssen
Comments: "Lessons for the farriers of Churf. S„chs...." Was this for
their farrier school?


Year Published: 1786
Author: Bonsi, Francesco
Title: Istituzione di Mascalcia
Comments: "Institution of Farriery"Robin Bledsoe says: "In volume 2
(1787), pp. 327-343 treat `De' Piedi' and `Della Ferratura.' There are no
related illustrations."


Year Published: 1787
Author: Lafosse, Philippe tienne
Title: Lehrbegriff der Pferdearzney. Aus dem Franz”sischen bersetzt von
J. Knobloch.
Comments: "Course in Horse Medicine. Translated from the French by J.
Knobloch." A German translation of "Cours d'hippiatrique..." 1772.


Year Published: 1788
Author: Lorenz, Andr.
Title: Von den Ursachen der Viehseuche und den n”thigen Vorbauungsmitteln
nebst einem Anhang vom Beschlagen der Pferde und den Folgen welche daraus
entstehen k”nnen
Comments: "About the causes... including an appendix about Horseshoeing
and its effects"


Year Published: 1788
Author: Clark, James [Scot.]
Title: A Treatise on the Prevention of Diseases incidental to Horses from
bad management in regard to Stables, Food, Water, Air, Exercise, to which
are subjoined observations on... the Surgical and Medical Branches of
Farriery
Comments: Smith says: "He opens the book with an account of stables and
ventilation, a subject which no previous veterinary writer had ever
associated with the health and well-being of animals. ...[He objects to
horses being] reared as hot-house plants, standing on litter saturated
with their own excreta, both to the ruin of their feet and general
health."He recommends that all bedding be removed during the day to allow
the floors to air dry.


Year Published: 1788
Author: Herbert, Henry, 10th Earl of Pembroke
Title: Equitazione Militare, o sia metodo di scozzonare i Cavalli
Comments: "Military Equitation..." Smith notes that Pembroke had traveled
to France and Italy, and that he was friends with Bourgelat, Newcastle,
and James Clark, of whom he spoke highly, and with whom he is known to
have corresponded.


Year Published: 1788
Author: Merrick, William
Title: The Classical Farrier exhibiting the whole anatomy of that noble
animal the Horse... together with the signs, causes and methods of curing
every Disease incident to Horses... management of Running Horses, etc.
Comments: Merrick recommends grooving to treat contracted hoof. Smith
says: "The Merricks, father and son, were well-known London practioners.
The father ...[was] 'Marshall Farrier to His Majesty.' The son was one of
the 5 supporters of Wood's scheme to provide London with a Hospital for
Horses; the father furnished Brindley with the horse-shoes which
illustrate the 1743 ed. of Newcastle's work [see Cavendish, 1657]."he
recommends grooving to treat contracted hoof and laminitis (SmithII-157).
William Merrick was Master of the W.C.F. 1794-95 (Prince 91).


Year Published: 1789
Author: Oehlmann, Karl Aug.
Title: Versuch eines chirugisches Handbuchs fr neu angehende Hufschmiede
und Pferde„rzte 2 parts
Comments: "Surgical Handbook for new Horseshoers and Veterinarians"


Year Published: 1790
Author: Vial de Saint Bel, BenoŒt (Charles)
Title: Plan for Establishing an Institution to Cultivate and Teach
Veterinary Medicine
Comments: Although Smith thought no copy of this still existed, Pugh
(1962), was able to find a copy and had it reprinted as an appendix to
"FromFarriery to Veterinary Medicine, 1785-1795". Pugh notes that
the schooloriginally consisted of a 3 year course, but that Sainbel
died before the first student graduated--a Mr. Bond, who had attended only
18 months. The course became still shorter, and remained that way many
years.


Year Published: 1790
Author: Rodriguez, Bernardo
Title: Catalogo de algunos autores espag¤oles que han escrito de
veterinaria, ed equitacion, y de agricultura, contiene por orden
cronologico el a¤o y lugar de su impresion, las ediciones que se han
hecho... etc.
Comments: "Catalog of some Spanish authors that have written on veterinary
medicine, equitation, and agriculture...etc."


Year Published: 1791
Author: Clark, James [Scot.]
Title: A Treatise on the Prevention of Diseases Incidental to Horses... To
Which are Subjoined Observations on some of the Surgical and Medical
Branches of Farriery[from the 2nd Edinburgh edition]
Comments: See Clark, 1788.


Year Published: 1791
Author: Taplin, William
Title: The Gentleman's Stable Directory or Modern System of Farriery, Vol.
II, containing Experimental Remarks upon Breeding, Breaking, Shoeing,
Stabling, Exercise and Rowelling...the present state of the Turf.
Comments: Smith takes a dim view of Taplin, I think because he criticizes
Osmer and LaFosse. I don't share Smith's view--in the American edition he
says little of shoeing (2p in Vol.I and 30p in Vol.II) but what he says is
accurate. He remarks that short shoes with narrow heels are likely to
cause strained tendons, and takes Osmer and LaFosse to task for
recommending them. He also notes that contact of the frog with the ground
can cause bruises.


Year Published: 1791
Author: Snape, Edward
Title: A Practical Treatise on Farriery. Including remarks on all diseases
incident to horses, the symptoms by which they are severally known, and
the most approved mode of cure...
Comments: Smith says: " He follows La Fosse on the physiology of the foot
and shoeing, but without acknowledgement." also "It is obvious that, like
his talented ancestor [Andrew Snape], he was a man of ideas; he improved
some surgical instruments, devised a rough and ready method of slinging a
horse in a stable, and constructed an ambulance for conveying sick and
lame animals. ...a portion of it [his infirmary] was isolated for...
infectious.."He says 15/20 cases of lameness are in the foot. The title
page of the second edition, of 1805 goes on: "From the manuscripts of the
late Edward Snape..."

Year Published: 1792
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: Der Deutsche Rossarzt, fr Verwalter, Schmiedemeister, und fr
Bauersleute.
Comments: "The German Horsedoctor, for Administrators, Master Smiths, and
Farmers"


Year Published: 1793
Author: Vial de Saint Bel, BenoŒt (Charles)
Title: Lectures on the Elements of Farriery or the Art of Shoeing Horses,
and on the Diseases of the Feet, designed chiefly for the use of the
pupils of the Veterinary College, London
Comments: Smith says: "He gives praise to the Earl of Pembroke, James
Clark, La Fosse, and Bourgelat for their work on the subject. Blaine says
these lectures can claim no originality, as they are frequently a literal
translation from La Fosse." "John Lawrence.... tells us Sainbel lamed
many horses by lowering the heels too suddenly, and committed other errors
in shoeing..." He was the first to use the term laminae, at least in
English.He still believed in unsoling. The 3 beautiful plates of shoes
and horse's feet are by Richard Lawrence.


Year Published: 1795
Author: Jewett, Paul
Title: The New-England Farrier; or a Compendium of earriery [sic], in four
parts: wherein most of the diseases to which horses, neat cattle, sheep
and swine are incident... Intended for the use of Private Gentlemen and
Farmers.
Comments: I looked at the 2nd edition. It contains nothing on shoeing,
and very little on the horse's foot, but this on hoof bound: "To cure it,
take a fleam lancet, and open the hoof at the edge of the hair, to give it
liberty of spreading. Then grease it daily with woodchuck's, skunk's, or
dog's grease, that it may grow." (pg. 41). Crude and dangerous.


Year Published: 1795
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: The Cheap and Famous Farrier
Comments: Just what everybody wants: a cheap and famous farrier! This
booklet does not deal with shoeing, and has very little regarding the
horse's feet, however, for foundering due to overeating he directs: "Take
a piece of soap and make him swallow it." (pg. 16)


Year Published: 1796
Author: Lawrence, John
Title: The Sportsman, Farrier, and Shoeing Smith Guide, being the
substance of the works of the late Charles Vial de St. Bell, etc.
Comments: Smith says: "This is an abridgement of the 'Posthumous Works of
Charles Vial de Sainbel', published in 1795.... Lawrence's apology for
abridging the work is that the expense of the original book prevented it
from finding a wider circulation. He adds an account of Sainbel's life and
little other matter from old authors [Pembroke, J. Clark, and Osmer]."


Year Published: 1796
Author: Xenophon, the Historian
Title: Buch ber die Pferdewissenschaft
Comments: A German translation of "De Re Equestri"


Year Published: 1796
Author: Taplin, William
Title: A Compendium of Practical and Experimental Farriery originally
suggested by Reason and confirmed by Practice... adapted to the
convenience of the Gentleman, the Farrier, the Groom, and the Smith.
Comments: Smith says: "There is... a long article on shoeing. He tells us
that all the improvement in the art [of shoeing] dates from the
publication of his work. He refers to a professor 'since dead' (Sainbel),
who died just in time to save his reputation from the fallacies he was
promulgating on the subject of shoeing!" I think there is more truth to
this last statement than Smith cares to admit.Huth says this is identical
to "Stable Directory".


Year Published: 1796
Author: Lawrence, John
Title: A Philosophical and Practical Treatise on Horses, and on the moral
duties of Man towards the Brute creation, comprehending the choice,
manage- ment... the improved method of Shoeing, medical prescriptions...
etc.
Comments: Smith says: "The Veterinary College comes in for a severe
handling: there are no less than 83 pages devoted to past and present
veterinary writers. Gibson is his favorite... ...Clater and Taplin suffer
severely." Smith also counts 138 pages on the Rights of Animals, 94 pages
on stable economy, and notes: "Lawrence appears to have been the first to
suggest loose-boxes and wide stalls."


Year Published: 1796
Author: Coleman, Edward
Title: Instructions for the Use of Farriers Attached to the British
Cavalry and to the Honourable Board of Ordnance
Comments: Magner says he recommended paring the sole until it sprang under
thumb pressure. Smith notes: "Perhaps in nothing was his ignorant
self-confidence more evident than in the subject of shoeing. He was not
long installed as Professor before he discovered things in his study of
the foot which did not exist, and at a time when his knowledge was
rudimentary he produced shoes intended to combat evils which were only
imaginary."


Year Published: 1796
Author: Freeman, Strickland
Title: Observations on the Mechanism of the Horse's Foot, its natural
spring explained and a mode of Shoeing recommended, by which the Foot is
defended from external injury with the least impediment to its spring
Comments: Here, apparently, is the first description of "expansion of the
heels" during weight-bearing and the idea that it should be encouraged.
"When the feet strike the ground the elasticity of the bars aids the
pressure of the bones in the expansion of the heels, which are immediately
contracted by the quarters the moment the heels are again in the air."
OK, so the Tower of Pizza leans--should we encourage all buildings
to do the same?


Year Published: 1796
Author: Hunter, James
Title: A Complete Dictionary of Farriery and Horsemanship, Containing the
Art of Farriery in all its Branches, with an explanation of the terms, and
a description of the various particulars ... and to knowledge of horses...
etc.
Comments: Smith describes this as worthless on veterinary matters, as well
as not original. Although Hunter calls himself a veterinarian on the
title page, Smith says he was not. There is very little on shoeing, and
what little there is simply emphasizes neatness as being the most
important feature. It is worthless regarding the horse's foot and
shoeing.


Year Published: 1797
Author: B., K. F.
Title: Taschenbuch fr Pferdefrnde, Pferde„rzte und Beschlagschmiede,
Eine grndliche Anweisung zur richtigen Kenntniss, Behandlung. etc.
Comments: "Pocketbook for Horselovers, Horsedoctors, and Horseshoers...."


Year Published: 1797
Author: Freeman, Strickland
Title: Abhandlung ber den Bau und Mechanismus des Pferdefusses, nebst
Beschreibung einer neuen, der Natur und Construction des Pferdefusses
angemesseneren methode des Beschlagens. [transl. by R. F. Buschendorf]
Comments: "Observations on the Mechanism of the Horse's Foot...."NUC-DNAL


Year Published: 1797
Author: Beckmann, Johann
Title: A History of Inventions and Discoveries, translated from the German
by William Johnston
Comments: Fleming lists volume ii as dealing with the origins of shoes.
See also Leo VI, 910.


Year Published: 1797
Author: Tennecker, Chr. E. Seifert Ritter von
Title: Der Fahnenschmidt im Kriege; oder Unterricht ber die Heilung der
Wunden die den Pferden durch Waffen zugefgt werden
Comments: "The Farrier in War; or Instruction in Healing the Wounds of
Horses...."


Year Published: 1797
Author: Vial de Saint Bel, BenoŒt (Charles)
Title: Elements of the veterinary art containing an essay on the
proportions of the celebrated Eclipse; six lectures on farriery, or the
art of horse shoeing and on the diseases of the foot... a short account of
his life 3d ed.
Comments: R. H. Budd (1831) tells us: "Those who recollect the work of St.
Bel, the first Professor of the Veterinary College on this subject [which
said that we are hampered by not knowing the natural or normal shape of
the hoof], will readily agree with us in this opinion, as even the plate
which he sent forth with it, as the pattern of a healthy foot, was
certainly the delineation of one in a considerably advanced stage of
contraction."Gamgee, Sr. Says that 70 years later, he had in his posession
the skeleton of Eclipse and that Sainbel's measurements were wrong and had
been misleading people for all that time. Smith also notes that Percivall,
20 years earlier had also noted some discrepancies (SmithII-197)


Year Published: 1797
Author: Buschendorf, Carl Friedrich
Title: Diction„r fr Pferdeliebhaber, Pferdeh„ndler, Bereiter, Cur und
Hufsmiede, oder vollst„ndiges Handw”rterbuch der s„mmtlichen Rosskunde,
fortgesetzt von v. Arnim.
Comments: "Dictionary for horseowners, handlers, riders, farriers and
horseshoers...etc."


Year Published: 1797
Author: Taplin, William
Title: A Compendium of practical and experimental farriery, originally
suggested by reason and confirmed by practice. Equally adapted for the
convenience of the gentleman, the farmer, the groom, and the smith...
Comments:


Year Published: 1798
Author: Taplin, William
Title: Stallmeister, oder neuere Rossarzneikunde. nebst einem Anhang ber
die Hundseuche. [transl. from English by S. Hahnemann]
Comments: Translation of "The Gentleman's Stable Directory, etc."--see
1791.


Year Published: 1798
Author: Coleman, Edward
Title: Observations on the structure, economy and diseases of the foot of
the horse and on the principles and practice of shoeing [2v. same title]
Comments: After reading so much about Coleman's lack of preparation, his
wrong theories, and the damage he caused, I was unprepared to find so many
sharp insights: "Without a knowledge of... the natural hoof, we shall be
liable to mistake disease for health...Most writers have given plates and
descriptions of diseased and contracted feet when they intended to
describe a natural foot." & "Men have attended chiefly to the shoe, and
not to its application."


Year Published: 1800
Author: Vierordt, Er. Jac.
Title: Praktisches Handbuch fr Thierarzte und Curschmiede; nebst einer
besondere Vorschrift fr Viehbeschauer.
Comments: "Practical Handbook for Veterianians and Farriers."


Year Published: 1800
Author: Diversi,
Title: (Delle) ferrature secondo la conformazione diversa de' piedi.
Comments:


Year Published: 1800
Author: Moorcroft, William
Title: Cursory Account of the Various Methods of Shoeing Horses, hitherto
Practised, with Incidental Observations
Comments: Moorcroft condemned Coleman's shoeing system and said the sole
must not be pared as it "...ties the lower edge of the crust [wall]
together, ...and by its strength it defends the sensitive parts within the
hoof." And he offers his machine made seated shoes. After the death of
Sainbel, Moorcroft and Coleman were jointly appointed to head the Royal
Veterinary College in 1794, unfortunately after 2 months Moorcroft
left--Coleman stayed.Smith notes that Moorcroft did an experiment with a
narrow chested horse on a soft track and found that raising the shoe on
the inside made it go closer, and raising it on the outside spread the
feet apart by 1 1/2 inches. (SmithIII-8)
The first machine made shoes! made from maleable cast iron, however, they
did not become popular and were discontinued.


Year Published: 1800
Author: Naumann, Johann Georg
Title: šber die vorzglichsten Theile der Pferdewissenschaft; ein Handbuch
fr Offiziere, Bereiter und Oekonomen, von Johann Georg Naumann, besonders
zum Gebrauch bei seinen Vorlesungen
Comments: "About the delicate parts in Horse Science...." MSU lists this
under the subject of horseshoeing, and Gross, 1869, lists it in his
bibliography.


Year Published: 1800
Author: Coleman, Edward
Title: Observations on the Formation and Uses of the Natural Frog of the
Horse, with a Description of a Patent Artificial Frog to prevent and cure
Contracted Hoofs, Thrushes, Cankers, and Sand Cracks
Comments: Smith says; "Nothing brought more ridicule on Coleman than this
invention. ...Bransby Cooper [a friend of Coleman's] tells us he took a
new purchase to the College to show Coleman, who remarked that, as the
feet showed a tendancy to contraction, a pair of his shoes would prevent
all further mischief. Cooper... adds that on leaving the College the
horse went so lame that he could not get home until they [the shoes] were
taken off."Coleman's ideas on the supposed necessity of frog pressure were
also expressed in his earlier Observations...., (1798, pg. 98): "The
common bar shoe is applied purposely to guard the frog from pressure, but
if the bar cannot be made to rest on the frog, it is productive of
mischief." Actually, the reverse is true: the frog is damaged by excess
pressure.


Year Published: 1800
Author: Lane, John
Title: The Principles of English Farriery Vindicated
Comments: Smith says: "The book is an attack on Coleman, especially
directed against his 'Instructions for the Use of Farriers, etc.' 1796.
The work is well written.... The criticisms are severe but just, and will
be found dealt with in the History of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, pp.
23, 49. This work is of value as evidence of the knowledge possessed by
the best type of Farrier in the 18th century." Smith comments that
because thisattack was well written it "suggests the use of an
amenuensis." Farriers, of course, can't write well. -- Are we, let's say
a little predjudiced maybe?The NUC lists the publication in 1856 of the
catalog of the library of the late John Lane, which was to be sold, and it
was also in London... this might be worth investigating!


Year Published: 1801
Author: Lehmann,
Title: Taschenbuch fr Pferdeliebhaber, Ross„rzte und Hufschmiede
Comments: "Pocketbook for Horseowners, Horsedoctors, and Horseshoers"


Year Published: 1801
Author: Lawrence, Richard
Title: An Enquiry into the Structure and Animal economy of the Horse,
comprehending the diseases to which his limbs and feet are subject, with
proper directions for shoeing ... laws of his progressive motion...etc.
Comments: SmithII-199, says that Richard Lawrence did the excellent
drawings of shoes, feet, and limbs for Sainbel's "Lectures", and he was
among the first pupils to enter the Veterinary College, graduating in
1794. Smith also says his drawings are "accurate and most artistic."
but, "He accepts the absurd view that the flexor tendons are rarely
sprained, but it is the sheath which suffers. This nonsense, which began
with Coleman, was still taught [recently]"


Year Published: 1801
Author: White, James
Title: The Anatomy and Physiology of the Horse's Foot concisely described,
with practicable observations on Shoeing
Comments: Smith notes: "...graduated at the London School in 1797. It
would not appear that he served any previous apprenticeship, so that on
commencing practice the notions of disease and treatment he had were those
of his teacher, Coleman. ...He became an author 4 years from the date of
qualifiying, at a time when he should have contented himself with study.
His early work is worthless, but it sold, and this encouraged him...."


Year Published: 1802
Author: Peall, Thomas
Title: Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on the Veterinary Art for the year
1802, by Thomas Peall, Veterinary Professor to the Dublin Society
Comments: Smith says that this consisted of 18 lectures, among them: 2 on
the Anatomy and Physiology of the Horse's Foot; Principles of Shoeing;
Diseases of the Feet; Lameness; Deformities and malformations of the Foot.
Peall had studied under Coleman, and praised his work on the horse's foot.


Year Published: 1802
Author: Moorcroft, William
Title: Beschreibung aller bisher gebrauchlichen Methoden des Hufbeschlags
der Pferde[transl. by F. Beck]
Comments: "A Cursory Account of the Various Methods of Shoeing Horses"
Smith dedicates Vol. II of his work to Moorcroft, noting that he was the
"first in the United Kingdom to qualify in veterinary medicine."


Year Published: 1802
Author: White, James
Title: A Compendium of the Veterinary Art, containing... all the Diseases
to which the Horse is liable ...and Anatomy and Physiology of the Horse's
Foot. Observations on the Principles and Practice of Shoeing, on
Feeding... etc.
Comments: Smith says: "On shoeing he differs from Coleman [only] in
advising that the sole of the foot should be untouched by the knife. He
does not recognize laminitis, confuses ringbone and sidebone, and repeats
the absurd Coleman doctrine that ligaments may rupture, but not tendons.
He gives the impression that he knows very little about lameness." "He
never published any book under the [often quoted] designation 'White's
Farriery'... "Screw caulks are illustrated, for the first time(?). A hoof
is illustrated superimposed on a protractor scale, with 45 degrees shown,
and specified as proper! And he blames the shoer: "Nearly half of the
horses that become unserviceable, are rendered so by some defect in the
feet... such defects are most commonly occassioned by a bad method of
shoeing...." (pg. 143)


Year Published: 1802
Author: Moorcroft, William
Title: šber die verschiedenen bisher blichen Methoden Pferde zu
beschlagen. aus dem Engl. M. Anm.
Comments: "About the various methods, used until now, of horseshoeing" A
second, independent, translation of Moorcroft's "Cursory Account...",
1800.


Year Published: 1802
Author: Blaine, Delabere Pritchett
Title: Outlines of the Veterinary Art, or the Principles of Medicine as
applied to a knowledge of the structure, function, and economy of the
horse, ox, sheep, and dog, and to a more scientific and successful
manner... etc.
Comments: At the age of 22, after a 7 year apprenticeship to a surgeon,
Blaine was employed at the Veterinary College as Sainbel's assistant,
translating his lectures and teaching anatomy, however, he corrected
Sainbel and was fired. Smith notes the later editions are better--the 1st
edition has some good history, the 3rd edition is strong on hoof diseases.
He studied Lafosse, Sainbel, Freeman, Coleman, Moorcroft, and Bracy
Clark.Smith notes that he did experiments on contracted feet. From 1812
to 1817 he had Youatt as a partner in his veterinary practice -- he had
taught him in 1811 or so.Haslam, 1832 (pg. 5) quotes Blaine:
"Vegetius... though he accurately enumerates every thing connected with an
army forge, makes no mention of any apparatus for shoeing horses, nor any
artificers for that purpose."


Year Published: 1803
Author: Franklin, Augustus
Title: The American farrier: adapted for the convenience of the farmer,
gentleman, and smith; being a sure guide to prevent and cure all maladies
and distempers that are incident to horses... etc.
Comments:


Year Published: 1803
Author: Taplin, William
Title: The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository of General Information
upon every subject appertaining to the Sports of the Field.
Comments: Smith says: "He describes 'Chest Founder' in terms which leave
no doubt as to its being the present navicular disease. ...Contraction of
the foot is referred to for the 1st time [by him], but his notions are
peculiar; he thought that it was due to 'the back-handed stroke of the
smith's rasp in shoeing.!' ...The articles on the 'Veterinary College' and
on 'Smiths and Farriers' are worth reading." Comben says 2 pl. of
"Demonstrative shoeing"


Year Published: 1803
Author: Kirtland, George
Title: The Anatomy of the Horse's Foot
Comments: George Kirtland also did the beautiful colored anatomical
illustrations for Freeman, 1796; and Coleman, 1798.


Year Published: 1803
Author: Feron, John
Title: A New System of Farriery, containing a systematic arrangement of
the internal structure of the Horse. Illustrated with copper-plates
representing the exact proportions of a blood horse...etc.
Comments: There are 18 pages on shoeing, which closely follow Coleman. To
treat or prevent overreaching he suggests trimming the heels of the front
feet (to lower the angle) and then applying (Coleman's) shoes which are
thinner in the heel than the toe. He says that this makes the horse work
harder and thus he responds by getting his front feet up and out of the
way. Coincidentally, he says that so-called strains of the tendons are
misnomers,as it is not possible to strain the tendons. Such was the
"knowledge" of veterinarians enlightened by Coleman at the new Veterinary
College.


Year Published: 1804
Author: Wilkins, J.
Title: A Practical Treatise on the Whole Art of Shoeing, etc.
Comments: Smith says: "This work by a layman [non-veterinarian] is based
on LaFosse and J. Clark; there is nothing original if we except the
reference to the nails restricting the natural width of the foot, an
anticipation of Bracy Clark's great [sic] theory."


Year Published: 1804
Author: Lafosse, Philippe tienne
Title: The Veterinarian's Pocket Manual; a Treatise on the Diseases of
Horses, particulary the glanders
Comments: An English translation of "Guide du Mar‚chal". Huth lists this
as being by tienne Guillaume LaFosse, however, he died in 1765 and MSU
(which has 2 editions in French) lists the author as Philippe tienne
LaFosse, his son. Smith does not list the book, and discusses only the
father, not the son. Both Huth and MSU list it as dealing with shoeing.


Year Published: 1805
Author: Grognier,
Title: Notice Historique et Raisonn‚e sur Bourgelat
Comments:


Year Published: 1805
Author: Coleman, Edward
Title: Grunds„tze des Hufbeschlages der Pferde.Aus dem Engl. durchaus
umgearb. von L. Bojanus
Comments: This is a German translation of "Observations on the Structure,
etc.". Smith (III-34) quotes Joseph Gamgee, Sr. on the subject of Coleman
as saying he was "a man who knew so much about the world and so little
about the subjects he was required to teach." Goodwin (1824) pg. 151
notes that Coleman had patents for: an artificial frog; a shoe with bar
clips; and an "anchor" or "T" shoe.


Year Published: 1807
Author: Binz, Gervas
Title: Hinterlassener Unterricht ber den Hufbeschlag der Pferde
Comments: "Inherited Lessons on Horseshoeing"


Year Published: 1809
Author: Lawrence, Richard
Title: Observations on the Causes which Constitute Unsoundness in Horses
considered in regard to the Sale and Purchase of those Animals
Comments: Smith says: "He...discusses abnormal conditions of the feet,
eyes, chest, and limbs, all of which may be the cause of unsoundness and
yet remain inactive, and...not affect the working capabilities of the
horse." also "The book is well written, and as a first attempt in
jurisprudence from a veterinary point of view is noteworthy."


Year Published: 1809
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: A Series of Original Experiments on the Foot of the Living Horse,
exhibiting the changes produced by shoeing and the causes of the apparent
mystery of this art. (Part I)
Comments: Clark announces his great discovery of the elasticity of the
foot--which had already been discovered by Strickland Freeman, and
Jeremiah Bridges. He took a cast of the same horse's hoof for a period of
6 years, and attributed the change in shape as due to shoeing, which he
felt prevented expansion and thereby caused contraction. Unfortunately,
he did not take casts of unshod hoofs over the same period to use for
comparison!He notes, pg. 95 -- "strange to tell, of so many books as have
been written on [horseshoeing]... none have [yet] given us the actual
process of making, applying, and fixing the horse's shoe to the foot."


Year Published: 1810
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: Directions to Farriers respecting cutting the Frog
Comments: Smith notes Clark was apprenticed to a surgeon for 7 years
before entering the Veterinary School under Sainbel, and graduating under
Coleman in 1794.The Nation Union Catalog lists a "Directions to
Farriers" published in 1837--probably a reprint or 2nd ed.?From the
similarity of the title and dates published I can't help thinking this may
be identical to "Recommendations...", 1810--yet I have 2 sources for each
title.


Year Published: 1810
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: A Treatise on the Foot and Shoeing, in which the obscurities of
this art are explained, and many new parts shewn; a Defect demonstrated in
the principle itself of Modern Shoeing, more mischievious to the Feet...
etc.
Comments: the rest of the title reads: "...than the abuses complained of.
To the above is added an important narrative of the consequences of
turning horses out to grass without shoes, in order to remedy contracted
feet. Also an Essay on the knowledge of the Ancients respecting shoeing,
originally published in 2 parts" Smith says: "Clark regarded contraction
as a primary disease... it was the cause and not the effect." An
unfortunate mistake.


Year Published: 1810
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: Recommendations to Farriers and Shoeing Smiths, throughout the
United Kingdom of Great Britain, In Respect to the Injurious Practice of
Slicing and Cutting Away the Horn From the Frogs of Horses' Feet...
Comments: Smith calls it "A large sheet of simple instructions, presumably
intended to be hung in the forge, teaching in simple language how the foot
should be preserved while shoeing." A 3rd ed. was published in 1837, a
2nd ed. was presumably published though the date is unknown.


Year Published: 1811
Author: Venturi, Ippolito Luigi Giovanni Galberto G.
Title: Miscellanee di veterinaria e d'ippotomia, del Senator Conte
Ippolito Venturi
Comments: MSU lists this as having 31 pages on the history of
horseshoeing.


Year Published: 1811
Author: Langenbacher, Joh.
Title: Unterricht ber das Beschlag und die Behandlung gesunder und
kranker Hufe der Pferde
Comments: "Instruction on the Shoeing and Management of healthy and
diseased Hoofs"


Year Published: 1812
Author: Taplin, William
Title: The Gentlemen's Stable Directory: or Modern System of Farriery. ...
With Occasional References to the Dangerous and Almost Obsolete Practice
of Gibson, Bracken, Bartlet, Osmer, and Others... 2 Vol. in 1 A New
Editon....
Comments: Taplin, pg.377 says:"I have never [in more than 20 years] had a
horse sustain the most trifling injury under the hands of the smith...."
He suggests that the safety of his horses and his reputation is insured by
his simple kindness and respect to the smith--"'doing as you would be
done,' is repaid with the most flattering interest...." He also notes
that the shoer's judgement, built on attention and experience surpasses
all theories.About 32 pages on the foot and shoeing.


Year Published: 1812
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: A Series of Original Experiments on the Foot of the Living Horse,
Part II
Comments: Smith comments: "Clark's verbosity was alarming.... In 'A
Series, etc.' he says in one place, 'What conclusions are to be drawn from
these experiments?' In order to find the experiments now in his mind, the
reader has to turn back 40 pages...." Despite his verbosity, he makes
some astute observations: "The hoof...is a cylinder, very obliquely
truncated with a small admixture of the cone in its lower parts...."
(pg.111)


Year Published: 1813
Author: White, James
Title: Handbuch der Pferde=Arzneikunde. A. d. Engl.
Comments: White's "A Compendium of the Veterinary Art, etc." translated
into German by Mller


Year Published: 1813
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: On the Nature and Cure of Running Frushes and Corns
Comments: Smith says: "This was one of Clark's favorite subjects; he
attached far more importance to the condition than we do to-day. He
believed Thrush was due to an imperfectly formed or ruptured frog-stay. He
retained the old English word 'Frush' in place of the 'barbarous' term
Thrush. The various editions of this paper do not all bear the same
designation." See also "frush" and "thrush" in the glossary.


Year Published: 1813
Author: Girard, Jean
Title: Trait‚ du pied considere dans les animaux domestiques.
Comments: Girard was professor of anatomy at the veterinary college in
Alfort. Zundel says "The study of the foot of the horse has been the
object of many voluminous works, such as those of Girard, Bouley, Bracy
Clark, Anker, Leisering & Hartmann, Lafosse, Gourdon, Reynal, Defays, and
many others, to which we refer for the more complete description of the
organization of the foot."


Year Published: 1813
Author: Powis, Richard
Title: An Examination of the Different Systems of Shoeing the Feet of
Horses: Particularly the thin heeled system of the college, and the system
now practiced in the Prince Regent's stables. ...with particular
directions...
Comments: Smith says: "The knowledge Powis exhibits of the foot and
shoeing is quite sound, but the man was an advertiser; he presents us with
an engraving of his hospital, and both in this and the title of his work
on diseases ["The Stable Dictionary..."], closely follows
Taplin."NUC-MH,BA,


Year Published: 1814
Author: Greve, Bern. Ant.
Title: Anleitung zum zweckm„ssigen Beschlagen und Behandlung der gesunden
und kranken Hufe der landwirthschaftliche Thiere aus dem Pferdegeschlechte
Comments: "Directions in useful shoeing and mangaging healthy and diseased
hoofs...."


Year Published: 1814
Author: Valois, Jean
Title: Cours d'hippiatrique ... … l'usage de MM. les Chevau-Legers de la
Garde du Roi ... Par M. Valois
Comments: MSU lists this under the subject of horseshoeing.


Year Published: 1814
Author: Feron, John
Title: Geometrische Ausmessungen des Pferdes. [transl. by Kr. L. Schwab]
Comments: A German translation of "A New System of Farriery..." 1803.


Year Published: 1814
Author: Schwab, Konrad Ludwig
Title: Katechismus der Hufbeschagkunst. Oder Theoretisch-Praktischer
Unterricht ber den Beschlag der Hufe und Klauen im gesunden und kranken
Zustande.
Comments: "Catechisms on the Art of Horseshoeing."


Year Published: 1814
Author: Peall, Thomas
Title: Observations, chiefly Practical, on some of the more Common
Diseases of Horses, together with remarks upon the General Articles of
Diet and the Ordinary Stable Management of that animal
Comments: Smith says: "In regard to the foot and shoeing, Peall says
Coleman has treated the subject in a way which has done him the greatest
honor. Coleman's thin-heeled shoe, he tells us, has been cast aside owing
to its inutility. Curiously enough, Peall did not believe in the porous
nature of horn nor of transpiration from the foot..."


Year Published: 1815
Author: Schwab, Konrad Ludwig
Title: Katechismus fr Beschlag-schmiede, oder kurzgefasster Unterricht
ber den Hufbeschlag [3rd. and later editions continue: "Praktische
Unterricht ber die gewohnlichen Krankheiten des Pferdes."]
Comments: "Catechism for the Shoeing Smith...."


Year Published: 1815
Author: Adancourt, Francis
Title: Taplin Improved; or A Complete Treatise on the Art of Farriery,
wherein are fully explained the nature and structure of that useful
creature, a horse; with the diseases and accidents he is liable to... etc.
Comments: DNLM says: "Published in York in 1790 under title: Taplin
improved... William Taplin had nothing to do with the work; his name was
used to help the sale. A York 1792 edition of apparently the same work is
listed in the Brit. Mus. Cat. as 'A new edition' of Henry Bracken's
Farriery improv'd; and American editions appeared in Baltimore in 1794 and
in Philadelphia in 1796 and 1798 under Bracken's name and with the title:
Farriery improved."It is not, however, the same work as Bracken's Farriery
improv'd, published in London in 2v., 1737-43....'On shoeing horses'
(extracted from a treatise lately published in England by James White): p.
119-128."


Year Published: 1815
Author: Powis, Richard
Title: A Concise Dissertation on the Anatomy, Physiology, and the most
Prominent Diseases of the Foot of the Horse; with the Method of Preventing
them, or Facilitating their cure by the... Levarian, or Easy Shoe... etc.
Comments: NUC-OrU,


Year Published: 1816
Author: Wagner, Chr. Gfr.
Title: Erfahrungen von und fr praktische Pferde„rzte, Cur- und Fahnen-
schmiede
Comments: "Experience by and for Practicing Horsedoctors and Farriers"


Year Published: 1816
Author: Tennecker, Chr. E. Seifert Ritter von
Title: Vorschl„ge zu einem Zweckm„ssigen Unterricht der Cur- und Fahnen-
schmiede
Comments: "Suggestions for Practical Lessons for Farriers"NUC-MB,


Year Published: 1816
Author: Lawrence, Richard
Title: The Complete Farrier, and British Sportsman: Containing a
Systematic Enquiry into the Structure and Animal Economy of the Horse, the
Causes, Symptoms, and Most Approved Methods of Prevention and Cure...etc.
Comments: The title page of the later edition continues: "Together with an
abstract of the Game Act of 1831, &c., &c." From this, it is obvious that
it was published in 1831 or later, but there is no publication date.
Smith says: "Lawrence must always be regarded as the first man to analyse
[correctly] with his eye the motion of the limbs in the gallop." Smith
also notes that he was bothered by people confusing him with John
Lawrence.


Year Published: 1816
Author: Budd, Richard Hayward
Title: A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Foot of the Horse:
containing a correct description of their nature, causes, and method of
prevention... also, rules of shoeing, by which the ordinary
evils...prevented
Comments: Smith says: "This man was a pupil with Bracy Clark, and adopted
his views on the physiology of the foot and the 'ruinous' effect of
confining the quarters of the foot by nails. Budd mixes up sidebone and
ringbone; though he follows Clark so closely, he differs from him in
quitter [sic], which Budd did not treat by operation. A study of Budd
expounds Clark's views in clearer and simpler language than... [Bracy
Clark] employed."


Year Published: 1817
Author: Carver, James
Title: Veterinary Science, Important to the Physician, the Student, and
the Gentleman of Philadelphia: ...an Account of the Royal Veterinary
College of London...Instructing City and Country Smiths...in the Shoeing
Art...
Comments: NUC-DLC; PPULC; CtY;


Year Published: 1817
Author: Jauze, Fr.
Title: Cours Th‚orique et Pratique de Mar‚chalerie V‚t‚rinaire 2 parts
Comments: Goodwin, 1824, page 190 says: "In the work of Monsieur Jauze
lately published on shoeing, the advantages of the French form
[particularly the rocker toe] are pointed out, and contrasted with the
English. His remarks upon the consequences likely to follow the use of
the common English shoe are certainly substantiated by the deplorable
state of our horses' feet."


Year Published: 1817
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: Recherches sur la construction du sabot du cheval, et suite
d'exp‚riences sur les effets de la ferrure, avec une Dissertation sur
quelques moyens que les anciens employoient pour prot‚ger les pieds...
Comments: Yale notes that this is a translation, largely by Jean-Baptiste
Huzard senior, of "A Series of Original Experiments of the foot of the
living horse..."


Year Published: 1817
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: Structure du Sabot du Cheval et Exp‚riences sur les Effets de la
Ferrure. par M. Bracy Clarke. Traduit de l'Anglais et revu par l'Auteur
2e ‚dition
Comments: A French translation of "The Foot of the Horse and Shoeing...",
1810, possibly? This was advertised by the publisher in the back of
Rodet, 1841, and cited in the text of Rodet.


Year Published: 1817
Author: Powis, Richard
Title: Der neuste Englischer Hufschmidt, oder Prfungen und Erfahrungen
ber die Zweckm„ssigkeit der neuesten und besten in England erfundenen und
daselbst blichen Hufeisen, nach Massgabe der verschiedene...etc. trnsl
L.L.H.
Comments: This was translated from the 3rd English edition, 1815. "An
Examination of the Different Systems of Shoeing Horses"


Year Published: 1817
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: Stereoplea, or the Artificial Defense of the Horse's Hoof
Considered by Bracy Clark, F.L.S. corresponding member of the Academy of
Sciences of Paris and the Natural History Society of Berlin
Comments: Clark describes the forging of shoes as practised then, and
notes that the principle reason for fullering was to enable the nail holes
to be placed nearer the rim of the shoe. He also describes the normal
hoof and various types of hoof deformities, then explains his motivation
to develop a removeable, nailless, shoe and the difficulties encountered.
He claims to have invented and tried 40 different types and depicts 5 of
the better ones.Apparently the first English book to describe how
horseshoes are made--describes forging as an observer would, not a
practitioner.


Year Published: 1817
Author: Birch, J.
Title: The Blacksmith's Guide: or, a new method of shoeing horses and
oxen, without the use of nails
Comments: Peddie does not list where the books are published, so I'm
unsure as to whether this is British or American -- I've guessed
American, because if he were British I would have expected Bracy Clark,
and/or Smith, to make some mention of him.


Year Published: 1818
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: Sandcrack and Quittor (Article published in Rees Cyclopedia)
Comments: Smith says this was the basis of Clark's later publications
"Cracked Hoofs and Running Frushes" in 1821, and "Quittor" in 1834.


Year Published: 1818
Author: Anonymous,
Title: The domestic animal's friend, or, the complete Virginia and
Maryland farrier
Comments:


Year Published: 1818
Author: Carver, James
Title: A Treatise on the Age of the Horse,... Instructions How to Tell His
Age, From a Foal to the Period of Sixteen Years...also an essay on
founder, contraction and running thrush
Comments: NUC-DLC; PPULC;


Year Published: 1818
Author: White, James
Title: A Complete System of Farriery, and Veterinary Medicine. Containing
a Compendium of the Veterinary Art... the Anatomy and Physiology of the
Foot and the Principles and Practice of Shoeing... 1st Am. ed. ...from
10th London
Comments: NUC-DLC, DNLM, CtY,


Year Published: 1818
Author: Sanfourche,
Title: Moyens de Conserver L'Aplomb du Cheval par la Ferrure
Comments: Fleming says: "M. Sanfarouche [sic] introduced a shoe which had
its brief day. Believing in the expansion of the foot to the same extent
as did Bracy Clark, this device was.... ...wider at the heels than
elsewhere, in order to facilitate the expansion of the hoof. It was also
narrow, to prevent slipping." Being wider webbed at the heels would help
prevent the heels from sinking in soft ground, and thereby help prevent
forging, etc.One entry in the NUC noted it as 50 pages in length.


Year Published: 1819
Author: Kegel, Karl
Title: šber den Umgang mit Pferden und neueste Art den wildesten und bei
der Behandlung, besonders beim Beschlagen b”sartigen, und beim Gebrauche
zum ziehen gef„hrlichst widersetzlichen Pferde in m”glichst kurzer Zeit
zahm...
Comments: "...Newest way of handling horses...especially while shoeing
malicious and dangerously resistant horses"


Year Published: 1819
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: Pharmacopaeia Equina, or New Pharmacopaeia for Horses
Comments: Smith says: "Gives a good picture of the old farrier's pharmacy,
and much interesting information on matters quite unconnected with the
subject. He has sections on food and dieting, and on medical dietetics.
Poisons are dealt with and several experiments quoted. ...This is a most
interesting work." 2nd ed. 1823, 3rd ed. 1833


Year Published: 1820
Author: K”nig, Jos.
Title: Hlfsbuch zur Erlernung der Anatomie fr angehende Hufschmiede
Comments: "Guide to Learning Anatomy for future Horseshoers"


Year Published: 1820
Author: Mason, Richard
Title: The Gentleman's New Pocket Farrier, 2nd ed.
Comments:


Year Published: 1820
Author: Goodwin, Joseph
Title: A new system of shoeing horses: with an account of the various
modes practiced by different nations, more particularly a comparison
between the French and English methods; and Observations on the Diseases
of the Feet..etc.
Comments: This is an interesting book. Goodwin not only compares the
shoeing methods, shoes and nails of various countries, but also of many of
his English contemporaries--he reviews the proposals of Coleman and B.
Clark, and others. It gives a good view of the state of the art in his
day. Apparently navicular disease affected most of the horses--both what
he calls "contraction" & "founder" (though not "fever in the feet") are
navicular.He manufactured his own maleable cast shoes; discusses the
nerving operation promoted by Sewell (p. 108); discusses various patents
by Coleman (p. 151-2); did an experiment concerning the amount of suction
required to pull off a shoe in mud (p. 259); and mentions "clubs" or
shoers' trade unions.


Year Published: 1820
Author: Cherry, Frederick Clifford
Title: On the Treatment of Horses' Feet
Comments: Smith says: "This is a six-page pamphlet giving an account of
the weight-bearing surface of the foot. The author believed that in the
stable the sole required support, and that in practice this was supplied
by the dirty method of 'stopping'. He thought something cleaner might be
devised."
Fortunately he thought cow-dung as "stopping" was not sanitary or
healthful for the horse, but why did he think the sole needed support?See
SmithIV-120, about his son, W. A. Cherry, his views on expansion and
attack on Gloag - Smith says Percivall intervened and Cherry stopped
writing for the Veterinarian.


Year Published: 1820
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: A Description of a New Horse-Shoe which Expands to the Foot:
invented by Bracy Clark...
Comments: This shoe, which was hinged, or jointed at the toe was not new,
having been illustrated in Fiaschi's book some 250 years earlier. Smith
says: "According to him, this jointed shoe was based on physiological
conceptions; it gave great relief in pumiced foot and ringbone; for
thrush, and for contraction the only rational treatment." But they would
not stay on unless fitted with bar clips and a "stretcher" screw to
immobilize them...


Year Published: 1820
Author: Tennecker, Chr. E. Seifert Ritter von
Title: Die Sicherste und zuverl„ssigste methode stallb”se und
widerspenstige Pferde in der m”glichst kurzesten Zeit mit Sicherheit und
gefahrl”ssigkeit an den Hufbeschlag und an den Zug zu gewohnen.
Comments: "The most Secure and dependable method to get mean and resistant
horses used to horseshoeing"


Year Published: 1820
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: A New Exposition of the Horse's Hoof
Comments: Smith says: "Describes the structure and function of the foot,
illustrated by means of a cardboard model which takes to pieces."


Year Published: 1820
Author: Daum, Ludwig
Title: Von den Hornspalten, der Ochsenklaue und Rehkrankheit der Pferde
Comments: "On Hornsplit, Ox-claw and Deer disease of Horses"--it is about
split hoofs in horses--the same author published another book in 1820
entitled Zaumkunst--"Bridle-Art".


Year Published: 1820
Author: Tennecker, Chr. E. Seifert Ritter von
Title: Anleitung zu der Einrichtung einer Feld- und Hausapotheke fr
Oekonomen, Thierarzte, Cur- und Fahnenschmiede, etc.
Comments: "Directions for the establishment of a medical kit for field or
home, for Farmers, Veterinarians, and Farriers"


Year Published: 1820
Author: Carver, William
Title: Practical horse farrier: or, The traveller's pocket companion.
Shewing the best method to preserve the horse in health; and likewise the
cure of the most prominent diseases...in the United States of
America...2nd ed
Comments: "A shoe should never be fullered too fine, or near the outside
edge or rim, as this will have a tendancy to leave the wall, or crust of
the foot thin. Likewise, the foot should never be rasped above the
clinches, as nature has formed the outside crust tough and hard, and the
inside of hoof soft and flexible, the rasping away the outside crust of
the hoof may be compared to cutting away the outside bark of a tree...."
(pg. 112).


Year Published: 1820
Author: Gohier,
Title: Tableau Synoptique des Fers les plus usit‚s ou employ‚s pour la
ferrure des animaux monodactyles ou solipŠdes
Comments: Fleming (1869) mentions this as one of the excellent works on
farriery during the 19th century.


Year Published: 1821
Author: Teast, Richard Buckle
Title: A Few Practical Observations on a New Method of Shoeing Horses
Comments: Badcock (1830) pg188, says: "Mr. R.B. Teast recommends a
construction of the foot surface [of the shoe]... [for] preventing
contraction... by raising a ridge along the whole extent of the shoe...
making an inclined plane outwards of the the thickness of the wall or
crust of the hoof. ...At least this is what I understand... none of my
connexions [sic] have seen it in actual use, notwithstanding I called at
his forge for that purpose."


Year Published: 1821
Author: Feuring, G. L.
Title: Kurzer Unterricht fr Beschlagschmiede ber dem Hufbeschlag der
Pferde.
Comments: "Short Lessons for Shoeing Smiths on the Shoeing of Horses"


Year Published: 1821
Author: Tscheulin, Geo. Fr.
Title: Polizeiliche Thierarzneikunde fr officielle Thier„rzte und Fahnen-
schmiede
Comments: "Police Animal Care for official Veterinarians and Farriers"


Year Published: 1821
Author: France, Ministere de l'interieur
Title: Programme du concours pour la chaire de mar‚challerie et de
jurisprudence v‚t‚rinaire, vacante … l'cole royale d'economie rurale et
v‚t‚rinaire de Lyon.
Comments: "Program of the contest for the chairs of horseshoeing and
veterinary jurisprudence, vacant at the Royal School of Agriculture and
Veterinary Medicine at Lyon"The first horseshoeing contest rules??


Year Published: 1821
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: Cracked Hoofs and Running Frushes
Comments: Apparently this material was a combination of "On Running
Frushes.." and part of "Sandcrack and Quittor".


Year Published: 1821
Author: Tennecker, Chr. E. Seifert Ritter von
Title: Pracktisches Lehrbuch der Hufbeschlagungskunst und der Erkenntniss
und Heilung der Hufkrankheiten
Comments: "Practical Textbook on the Art of Horseshoeing and the Diagnosis
and Treatment of Hoof Diseases"


Year Published: 1821
Author: Goodwin, Joseph
Title: A new system of shoeing horses, abridged etc. .... To which are
added, observations on bleeding and the pulse, a concise view of the
anatomy of the foot, notes, remarks, &c. by John B. Brown
Comments: About the unabridged version (Goodwin, 1820), Fleming, page 530
says: "The best work produced at this period was undoubtedly that of Mr.
Goodwin, veterinary surgeon to King George IV. It is written in a fair and
scientific spirit, and gives an excellent resum‚ of the merits and
demerits of the various systems of shoeing then in vogue. ...The French
mode of shoeing, which was Bourgelat's, came nearest to his standard of
superiority...."


Year Published: 1822
Author: Fusco, Raffaele
Title: Trattato in compendio sull' unga organizzata e sulla ferratura del
cavallo
Comments:


Year Published: 1822
Author: H”rdt, Sigm.
Title: Unterricht ober die Pferdehufbeschlagkunst, und die Behandlung der
Kranken und fehlerhaften Hufe; nebst einer Abhandlung ber die Castration
der Pferde.
Comments: "Lessons on the Art of Horseshoeing and Management of Diseased
and Damaged Hoofs; with an appendix on Castrating Horses"


Year Published: 1822
Author: Tscheulin, Geo. Fr.
Title: Kriegspferdekunde fr Officiere, Thier„rzte und Fahnenschmiede
Comments: "War Horse Knowledge for Officers, Veterinarians, and Farriers"


Year Published: 1822
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: An Essay on the Canker and Corns of Horses' Feet
Comments: Smith said Clark calls this the 2nd edition when he refers to it
in "Hippodonomia" and "Stereoplea" and it may have appeared earlier in
Rees Cyclopedia. Smith also notes that Clark believed that canker was not
due to "a specific poison" but to the paring of the sole. Corns he
believed were due to pressure on the bars of the foot. Today, both views
seem peculiar. Zundel notes Clark used wood tar to treat canker, and said
it was effective.


Year Published: 1822
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: On Canker and Ring Bone
Comments: Here, as in Clark, 1810, Huth and Smith give different, but
confusingly similar titles with the same publication date. Zundel says:
"Let us glance at the drugs which have proved most successful in the
treatment of canker: First we have the different pyrogenous preparations,
especially wood tar, recommended by Bracy Clark, Reynal, and Bouley, and
which gives astonishing results."


Year Published: 1823
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: Treatise on Shoeing
Comments: This is in Spanish.


Year Published: 1823
Author: Mayo, Herbert
Title: Anatomical & Physiological Commentaries: No.2 On the Structure of
Horn, Hoof & Cuticle
Comments: Smith says: "He describes the difference in structure of horn
and hoof. Hoof is tubular as well as fibrous. He describes the villi
from the coronet entering the substance of the wall.... He describes the
vascular laminae as being 'delicately fluted' on their sides; of this a
drawing is given. Mayo, therefore, discovered the secondary laminae, and
his account of the minute structure of the hoof is a notable
contribution...."


Year Published: 1823
Author: Clater, Francis
Title: Der Hauspferdearzt oder die Kunst seine Pferde selbst zu heilen.
By S. von Tennecker.
Comments: A German translation of "Every man his own farrier..." 1783.


Year Published: 1823
Author: Dieterichs, Joachim Friedrich Christian
Title: Die Hufbeschlagskunst oder Anleitung sowohl die gesunden, als auch
fehlerhaften Hufe der Pferde zweckm„ssig zu behandeln und zu beschlagen
Comments: "The Art of Horseshoeing...."


Year Published: 1824
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: A Short History of the Horse and Progress of Horse Knowledge
Comments: Smith says: "He gives the first account in our language of the
Early History of the Veterinary Art, a notable contribution to
scholarship. So sound indeed was his classical knowledge, that he was
invited by the authorities of the British Museum to examine an ancient
clay tablet, containing some figures of horses, which had defeated all
experts. Clark at once recognized that the horses were wearing
sandals...." How foolish--see also Fleming, 1869.


Year Published: 1824
Author: White, James
Title: Trattato di Medicina Veterinaria di Giacomo White, chirurgo
veterinario de'Reali Dragoni d'Inghilterra. Prima Edizione Italiana
tradotta dall'Originale Inglese della XIII Ediz.
Comments: "James White's Treatise on Veterinary Medicine..."


Year Published: 1824
Author: Hodgson, J. Thomas
Title: The Art of Preserving and Defending the Foot of the Horse, deduced
mathematically from the structure and function of the hoof; and
observations on the different states of Horses Feet without and under
various...defences
Comments: Smith says: "This work is hopelessly obscure; the plates give
some little insight into the author's meaning, though not sufficient.
This is probably intentional, as a patent was pending. Preserve us from
any more mathematicians dealing with shoeing!"


Year Published: 1825
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: A Disclosure of the Apparatus for Making the New Tablet Shoe of
Expansion
Comments:


Year Published: 1825
Author: Brunn, Adolf Friedrich
Title: Praktische Hufbeschlagskunde
Comments: "Practical Horseshoeing"


Year Published: 1825
Author: Cherry, Frederick Clifford
Title: On the Treatment of Horses' Feet in the Stable
Comments: Smith says: "This is a very brief pamphlet describing a felt pad
which when sturated with water, was pressed into the sole and took the
place of 'stopping'. This pamphlet is complementary to the above [On the
Treatment of Horses' Feet 1820], and answers the question which is there
raised." Cherry was a friend of Bracy Clark, and with him, in 1828,
started publication of the "Farrier and Naturalist" magazine.


Year Published: 1825
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: Some Account of a New Instrument called the Clavidux, for Boring
the Hoof to any depth for the nails, by which individuals may shoe their
own Horses
Comments: Apparently this was to be used in conjunction with his hinged,
or "tablet" shoe, which would not need to be shaped on an anvil to match
the width of the hoof. I suppose he thought owners, without training,
would feel more comfortable drilling holes in their horses' hoofs than
driving nails in them.


Year Published: 1825
Author: Budd, Richard Hayward
Title: A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Foot of the Horse:
Containing a Correct Description of their Nature, Causes, and Methods of
Prevention...Rules of Shoeing, by which the ordinary evils... prevented.
Comments: There are 15 pages on canker: "The appearance is truly
disgusting... from the great obstinacy of its nature, and the constant
re-production of the fungus as often as it is destroyed... a nature
specifically poisonous. The discharge which takes place from the sore is
of a milky appearance; it appears to consist of flakes of imperfectly
formed horn mixed with a a fluid of a hightly fetid nature, in which it
seems partially dissolved..."


Year Published: 1826
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: šber Hufeisen und Pferde-Beschl„ge. Aus franz”sishen Schriften
gezogen.
Comments: "About horseshoes and horse-shoeing. Extracted from French
writings"


Year Published: 1826
Author: Beck, C. Ch.
Title: Erz„hlungen, Anecdoten und Biographien fr Freunde des
Milit„rstandes und der Milit„rgeschichte, auch interessante Notizen und
Belehrungen fr Pferdeliebhaber. Nebst einem Anhang ber das Beschl„g der
Pferde....etc.
Comments: "Stories, Anecdotes, and Biographies for friends of military
rank... also an appendix on shoeing the horse"


Year Published: 1826
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: Praktischer Unterricht ber die Wartung der Pferde, das Catteln,
Packen und Zaumen, sowie ber die gemeinsten Regeln des Hufbeschlags und
der Verpflegung und Abwartung kranker Pferde. Von einen
Cavallerieoffizier...
Comments: "Practical Instruction on the Maintenance of Horses...as well as
the most common rules of Horseshoeing..."


Year Published: 1827
Author: Kertitschka, J.
Title: Anleitung ber das Beschlagen der Pferdehufe, ein kurzer leicht
fasslicher Unterricht fr Hufschmiede und Pferdebesitzer.
Comments: "Directions on shoeing the horse's hoof, a short and easy to
understand lesson for horseshoers and horseowners"


Year Published: 1827
Author: Goodwin, Joseph
Title: Guide du V‚t‚rinaire et du Mar‚chal, pour le ferrage des chevaux et
le traitement des pieds malades; traduit de l'Anglais de Goodwin... par
MM. O. et B. ... avec des notes de M. Berger... etc.
Comments: "Guide to Veterinarians and Farriers, on the shoeing of horses
and the treatment of foot diseases..."I can only assume this is a
translation of "A new system of shoeing horses" 1820.


Year Published: 1827
Author: Lessona, Carlo
Title: Delle arte della Ferratura del Cavallo
Comments: "The Art of Horseshoeing"


Year Published: 1827
Author: Rydge, John
Title: The Veterinary Surgeon's Vade Mecum: A Complete Guide to the Cure
of All Diseases Incident to Horses, Cattle, Sheep, and Dogs, with Rules
for the Management of the Healthy Horse; Feeding, Stabling, Grooming,
Shoeing, &c....
Comments: Smith says: "In the 4th edition [The Veterinary Surgeon's
Manual, 1832]... there are some rare plates of Coleman's shoes."


Year Published: 1827
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: The Foot of the Horse; Its true nature, structure, laws, and
economy explained. To which are added observations on the ruinous effects
of the principle involved in the ordinary shoe... etc. [1st edition of
Hippodonomia?]
Comments: Although Smith doesn't say from which book or books the
following quotes of Clark come from, they are worth noting: He said Clark
described frog pressure as "that absurd doctrine which has proved such a
pitfall and produced such a train of misconception and evil." Smith also
quotes Clark saying: "The frog is a bow string, and not a wedge."
"...this bow string permits the expansion of the hoof and restrains undue
action." Nicely put.Smith calls the 1870 reprint of "The Foot of the
Horse..." merely a reprint of "Hippodonomia", unaware that it had
originally been published before "Hippodonomia".


Year Published: 1827
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: Description of the Distender used in putting on the Expansion Shoe
Comments: See: 1820 A Description of a New Horse-Shoe which Expands to the
Foot. Apparently, after 7 years, he discovered the moveable expansion
shoe could be kept on only if it was immobilized by pressing outward
against the hoof wall, and preventing any "expansion" or contraction.


Year Published: 1827
Author: Badcock, John
Title: The Veterinary Surgeon, or Farriery taught on a new and easy plan,
being a treatise on all the diseases and accidents to which the horse is
liable.... by John Hinds, Veterinary Surgeon
Comments: Smith says: "This is an extraordinary book, full of hideous
mistakes, yet attractive, making us feel that something lies behind it.
"John Hinds" was the pseudonym of Badcock the publisher. What induced
this man to dabble in veterinary matters we do not know, but he evidently
fancied himself, and succeeded in obtaining from the "Annals of Sporting"
a prize for the articles which now form the subject of this volume."


Year Published: 1827
Author: Peterka, Joh.
Title: Grndliche und Kerzgefasste Darstellung der verschiedener Arten von
Knochenbrchen Hufkrankheiten unserer landwithschaftliche Hausthiere, um
sie mittels einer Schwebe-Maschine leicht zu heilen.
Comments: "Thorough and Short Description of different kinds of bone
fractures, hoof diseases...etc."


Year Published: 1827
Author: Huzard, Jean Baptiste
Title: Conjectures sur l'origine ou l'etymologie du nom de la maladie
connue dans les chevaux sous le nom de fourbure, auxquelles on a ajout‚
des notes bibliographiques sur quelques anciens ouvrages de v‚t‚rinaire.
Comments: "Conjectures on the origin or etymology of the name of the
disease in horses under the name of founder, to which one has added
bibliographic notes on some ancient veterinary works."


Year Published: 1828
Author: Nsken, Friedrich
Title: Handbuch fr Cavallerie-Offiziere, etc. sowie berhaupt fr alle
Pferdebesitzer. Enthalt: das Ganze der Schmiedekunst und des
Hufbeschlags... neuerfundene Hufmesser (Podometer) und ein neue
zweckm„ssige Hufnagelart.
Comments: "Handbook for Cavalry Officers, etc. as well as for Horseowners.
Containing all of the art of blacksmithing and horseshoeing...newly
invented podometer, and a useful new way of hoof nailing."


Year Published: 1828
Author: Lpke, Joh. Chr. Gottfr.
Title: Handbchlein der Hufbeschlags-Lehre, fr Cavalleristen,
Pferdebesitzer und Beschlags schmiede
Comments: "Little Handbook on Horseshoeing, for Cavalrymen, Horseowners
and Shoeing smiths"


Year Published: 1828
Author: Nsken, Friedrich
Title: Beschlags-Katechismus, oder fassliches Unterricht in der beste
Methode die Pferde zu beschlagen
Comments: "Shoers Catechism, or Lesson summaries of the best Method of
shoeing Horses"


Year Published: 1828
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: Testimonies communicated by Various Persons in Favor of the
Expansion Shoe, 1828
Comments:


Year Published: 1828
Author: Rienecker, Gotthold
Title: Der Hufschmied, oder die Pferde auf richtige Art zu beschlagen
Comments: "The Horseshoer, or the Horse with the proper way of shoeing"


Year Published: 1828
Author: Balassa, Constantin
Title: Trait‚ de la Ferrure sans contrainte, ou moyen de ferrer les
chevaux les plus vicieux en moins d'une heure, et de les corriger pour
tonjours de leurs d‚fauts. SystŠme puise dans les principes de la
physiologie du cheval
Comments: "Shoeing without force..."


Year Published: 1828
Author: Klatte, Eph.
Title: Beleuchtungen und Bemerkungen ber die vom Rittmeister C. Balassa
erfundene neue psychologische methode, b”se Pferde in einer Stunde zum
Hufbeschlagen ohne Zwang abzurichten
Comments: "Clarification and Comments on Balassa's newly invented
psychological method to shoe mean horses without force, within an hour"
--a commentary on Balassa's "Shoeing without force".


Year Published: 1828
Author: Vatel, P.
Title: El‚mens de Pathologie V‚t‚rinaire, ou, Pr‚cis de la M‚dicine et de
la Chirurgie des principaux animaux
Comments: see notes under the German translation 1839.


Year Published: 1828
Author: Balassa, Constantin
Title: Der Hufbeschlag ohne Zwang. Eine Abhandlung ber die Art
reitzbare... Pferde... dahin zu bringen, dasz sie sich willig beshlagen
lassen.
Comments: "Shoeing without force..." a book on horse psychology.
Karasszon, 1988, details some of Balassa's life: "Balassa's great success
attracted the interest of the crown-prince Ferdinand, who wished to see
how Vienna's most prankish horse was shoed without any restraint. The
trial succeeded and emperor Francis immediately promoted Balassa to
captain's rank and granted him a lifelong personal allowance of an annual
300 gouldens. ...Subsequently,Balassa's book was edited at the request of
the Imperial and Royal Ministry of War in every language widely spoken in
the Hapsburg Monarchy." (Karasszon, pg. 330) Karasszon also notes that
there were 2 more German, one Hungarian, and 2 Polish editions of the
book.


Year Published: 1829
Author: Bach, Chr. de
Title: Hufbeschlag ohne Zwang oder die Abrichtung des Pferdes, sowohl die
noch ganz rohen, als die widerspenstigen. Nach den Gesetzen der Natur und
den besonderen Eigenthumlichkeiten eines jeden Pferdes
Comments: "Shoeing without Force, or the Training of the Horse, also the
most resistant and the wildest..."


Year Published: 1829
Author: Schreiner, Frz. Xav. Jos.
Title: Die Behandlung des Pferdes. Enthaltend: Die Beshaffenheit der
Pferde-Racen, die Charaktere der Pferde... den Beschlag der Pfedehufe und
die Behandlung der Pferde bei vershiedenen Ereignissen.
Comments: "Horse Management..."


Year Published: 1829
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: Hippodonomia, or the True Structure, Laws, and Economy of the
Horse's Foot; also Podophthora, or a Ruinous Defect in the Principles of
the Common Shoe detected and demonstrated by Experiments: with a
proposition... 2nd ed.
Comments: Although this title had not been published before, Clark calls
this the 2nd ed.Smith notes that it is a revision and enlargement of "A
Series of Original Experiments" published in 1809, but was unaware of the
earlier edition of "The Foot of the Horse...", 1827, which is apparently
most similiar in title and content.Smith says: "One significant paragraph
occurs at the end of Podophthora to the effect that, in spite of all his
work, only two people in the 'Great City of London' profess to shoe on the
principles of expansion, one of these was his nephew."


Year Published: 1829
Author: White, James
Title: Manual del Alb‚itartransl. by Nicolas Casas de Mendoza
Comments: "Veterinary Manual"


Year Published: 1830
Author: Skeavington, George
Title: The Horseman's Monitor, Being a Treatise on the True Formation of
the Horse... by George Skeavington... to which is added Advice on Shoeing
Horses, by Bracy Clark... 2nd ed.
Comments:


Year Published: 1830
Author: Teller, Fried. Aug.
Title: Kurzgefasster Unterricht in der Pferdewissenschaft, etc. Nebst ein
Anleitung den gesunden und kranken Hufen der Pferde, Esel, und des
Rindviehes zweckm„ssig zu behandeln und zu beschlagen. Ein
Hlfsbuch...etc.
Comments: "Short Lessons in Horse Science, etc. With an appendix on
healthy and diseased hoofs of Horses, Asses, and Cattle..."


Year Published: 1830
Author: Balassa, Constantin
Title: Kunsten at skoe Heste uden Tvang [transl. by Tydske]
Comments: "The Art of Horseshoeing without Force"


Year Published: 1830
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: Guide to the Shoeing Forge, or Plain directions to gentlemen going
to have their horses shod, and what they should observe in seeing it
properly executed...
Comments: Smith says: "It is in this communication that he tells us he has
erected several forges in different parts of the kingdom."


Year Published: 1830
Author: Badcock, John
Title: The Veterinary Surgeon: or, Farriery taught on a new and easy plan;
... With Instructions to the Shoeing-Smith, Farrier, and Groom, ... by
John Hinds, Veterinary Surgeon. ... adapted to this country by Thomas M.
Smith
Comments: Badcock, pg181 says: "Iron is the only material proper [for
shoes], and the toughest is the best defence, as it affords a small degree
of elasticity in action, is least likely to crack, and is capable of being
hardened at the wearing points at will." He has some interesting
historical points: shows 3 designs of Coleman's frog pressure shoes, and
gives details of the Goldfinch shoe--a patented modification of B. Clark's
jointed shoe.


Year Published: 1830
Author: Badcock, John
Title: A Treatise on the Horse, its Diseases, Lameness and Improvement...
Shoeing ... Farriery ... breeds of speedy horses ... by William Osmer.
5th ed. newly rewritten by J. Hinds, V.S.
Comments: Smith says: "'John Hinds' was the pseudonym of Badcock the
publisher." and "Youatt [described] Hinds' work as the 'most abominable
and bare-faced attempt at literary imposition which we remember to have
seen.' Nevertheless a great deal of what Hinds says is true, though it is
not necessarily original." On this particular book Smith says: "This is
not a trustworthy account of Osmer's work."


Year Published: 1831
Author: Youatt, William
Title: The Horse
Comments: Fleming (1869) says: "The principles of shoeing enumerated by
Mr. Youatt were entirely founded upon the supposed elastic properties of
certain parts of the foot--expansion at the quarters, flattening of the
frog laterally, and descent of the sole. Grave errors certainly,
resulting from imperfect study or mal-application of the anatomy and
physiology of the foot; and which were simply destruction to [the
foot]..when ...applied."


Year Published: 1831
Author: Renault, EugŠne
Title: Trait‚ du Javart Cartilagineux, par M. Renault
Comments: Fleming notes an experiment done on dead feet by Renault
comparing the effectiveness of hot and cold shoeing. That may or may not
be included in this book on the hoof disease quittor. Zundel notes that
treatment of quittor by removal of the lateral cartilage was first
recommended by Lafosse, Sr., "one of the most valuable results of
the application ofanatomical knowledge.... ...principally studied
and described by Renault."


Year Published: 1831
Author: Outrepont, Th‚odore Gustave d'
Title: Moyen pour Empˆcher les Chevaux de se blesser par la selle, avant
de se mettre en route ou en campagne; m‚moire envoy‚ … monsieur le
mar‚chal Soult...
Comments: "Methods of Preventing Horses from hurting themselves by the
saddle, before taking to the road or field..."


Year Published: 1831
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: An Essay on the Knowledge of the Ancients respecting the art of
shoeing the horse and of the probable period of the commencement of this
art. 2nd ed. With a treatise on ancient horse-shoes... and french shoeing.
Comments: This first appeared about 20 years earlier at the end of "A
Series of Original Experiments.." Clark notes that the earliest writers,
among them Columella, insist that in buying a horse, one look for "hard
hoofs, upright, (opposed to flat,) hollow beneath..." he also notes "on
the iron nailed shoe being brought into use... the smiths occupied with
this practice became the only doctors of the horse, under the title of
Ferrers..."


Year Published: 1832
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: Remarks on French Shoeing by the English Smith Menalcas [pseud.]
Comments: Smith says: "This is an attack on Joseph Goodwin's work on
Shoeing. Though Goodwin's name is not mentioned, his work is described as
'a miserable performance' and the unnamed author as a 'miserable writer.'
In the copy in my possession, Bracy Clark notes, in his own writing, that
it is a review on Goodwin's book." See also Goodwin, 1820.


Year Published: 1832
Author: Goodwin, Joseph
Title: The Art of Shoeing Without the Application of Force, by Const.
Balassa, rev. by Goodwin
Comments: Smith says: "This book has nothing to do with the Art of
Shoeing. It is a description of the methods by which intractable horses
may by kindness quietly submit to the operation of shoeing. It is a short
and not uninteresting study of equine psychology. There are several
plates."


Year Published: 1832
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: Der Bau und die Verrichtungen des Pferdes Hufes, nebst einer durch
Erfahrung bew„hrt gefundenen neuen Beschlag-Methodetransl. by F. S.
Rhode
Comments: Another one of 2 independent German translations of Clark's
"Hippodonomia" 1829.


Year Published: 1832
Author: Barnum, H. L.
Title: The American Farrier: Containing a Minute Account of the Formation
of Every Part of the Horse, from the Extremity of the Head to the Hoof.
Accompanied with a Copious Alphabetical List of Medicines...
Comments: This is a curious book, and title. The title page says it is
"Compiled chiefly from the celebrated 'Library of Useful Knowledge,'
just published by a committee of one hundred and fifty eminent
Agriculturists..." With only 8 pages devoted to shoeing, as done by the
"shoeing smith". He uses the term farrier not to denote horseshoers, or
veterinarians, but rather as "the proprietor of the horse." (p215)


Year Published: 1832
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: Hippodonomia, oder der wahre Bau, die Naturgesetze und Einrichtung
des Pferdefusses; und Podophthora, oder die durch angestellte Versuche
erwiesene sch„dliche Behandlungen der bisher gew”hnliche Hufeisen etc.
Comments: A German translation of "Hippodonomia" by Rhode.


Year Published: 1832
Author: Haslam, John
Title: A Few Brief Observations on the Foot of the Horse and Shoeing
Comments: This is not the John Haslam who wrote: "Observations on madness
and melancholy", "Considerations on the moral management of insane
persons.", "Illustrations of madness....", etc. Although DNLM lists
these as the same John Haslam, I doubt it. The writer of this booklet
says he graduated from the London Veterinary College in 1800 and has lived
and practiced veterinary in Baltimore for 30 years. The famous
psychiatrist John Haslam was writingabout his cases while this John Haslam
was attending veterinary school.After going through a thumbnail history
of veterinary medicine and farriery (see Blaine, 1802), Haslam goes on to
promote his veterinary forge, and says there is "...evidence that servants
are at other shops bribed to condemn us to owners...." and thereby
destroying his business.


Year Published: 1832
Author: Percivall, William
Title: The Anatomy of the Horse, reduced to a systematic Form, embracing
new and enlarged views of the structure of the Foot.
Comments: Smith says: "This work originally appeared in parts in the
Veterinarian... It was the first systematic equine anatomy published in
this country [England].... The nomenclature adopted is partly his own and
partly from the French. It served its purpose in the training of several
generations of students, being in use down to 1873." It seems strange to
have an anatomy text with absolutely no illustrations.


Year Published: 1832
Author: Turner, James
Title: A Treatise on the Foot of the Horse, and a New System of Shoeing by
One-Sided Nailing, and the Nature, Origin and Symptoms of the Navicular
Joint Lameness, with Preventive and Curative Treatment
Comments: This is mostly a collection of his articles on the subject as
they appeared earlier in the Veterinarian magazine, with some changes and
additional comments. Previously referred to as "Groggy Lameness", "Chest
Founder" etc. Turner, following Lafosse, Osmer, and Moorcroft, identified
the seat of the disease in the navicular joint. He felt primarily caused
by long toes, lack of exercise, and lack of frog pressure. [2 out of 3
ain't bad]He seems pushed to accept the views of Coleman on frog pressure,
and B. Clark on contraction caused by shoeing and incorporates them in his
plan, however, although he proposes one-sided nailing, he does not list
the shoe's contraction as a cause of navicular, nor does he seem to
believe that frog pressure is important in preventing contraction -- he
simply accepts these.


Year Published: 1832
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: Leichtfasslicher Unterricht ber Pferdekenntniss, Hufbeschlag und
die Erkennung und Heilung der Krankheiten der Pferde. Ein Noth- und
Hlfsbchlein fr Pferdebesitzer, etc.
Comments: "Easy Lessons on Horse Knowledge, Horseshoeing and the Diagnosis
and Treatment of Horse Diseases."


Year Published: 1832
Author: Mller, Johann Gottlieb
Title: Handbuch der Hufbeschlagkunst, in besonderer Beziehung auf den
Regeln und Anweisungen zum Anfertigen der Hufeisen fr die der
Thierheilkunde sich widmenden, fr Huffschmiede und
Schmiedelehrlinge....etc.
Comments: "Handbook of Horseshoeing, especially refering to the rules and
instructions for making the horseshoes...."


Year Published: 1834
Author: Vix, Karl Wilhm.
Title: Praktische Beschlaglehre, oder die Lehre der Kunst, die Hufe der
Pferde, Maulthiere, Esel und die Klauen des Rindviehes durch Eisen am
zweckm„ssigsten vor dem zu starken Abnutzen zu sichern, ... etc.
Comments: "Practical Shoeing...."


Year Published: 1834
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: Quittor
Comments: Smith says: "His treatment is surgical; lifting up the coronary
substance so as to expose the sinuses, he opens these up and injects them
with a solution of sulphate zinc. He had great experience of these
[quittor] cases, and is opposed to the caustic dressings so frequently
employed."


Year Published: 1834
Author: Delacroix,
Title: Le nouveau Mar‚chal expert, ou le guide du Mar‚chal-ferrant, du
V‚t‚rinaire, de l'‚cuyer, etc., avec un pr‚cis de la connaissance des
chevaux des ƒnes et des mulets, de leur education et conservation
Comments: "The new Farrier, or the guide for Horseshoer, Veterinarian, and
riding-master, etc." Huth notes that Delacroix is a pseudonym for an
anonymous author.


Year Published: 1834
Author: Hartung, W. Friedr.
Title: Der Wohlunterrichteter Hufbeschlagschmied, nebst Belehrungen ber
den Castration oder dem Wallachen der Hengste. Ein ntzliches Hlfsbuch
fr jeden Kur- und Huffschmied
Comments: "The Well-educated Horseshoer, with Suggestions on Castration,
or Gelding the Stallion. A useful guidebook for every Farrier and
Horseshoer"


Year Published: 1834
Author: Jauze, Fr.
Title: Die Vollst„ndige Hufbeschlagkunst, oder Anweisung jede Gattung von
Arbeitsthieren zu beschlagen, ihre Hufkrankheiten zu verhten, und
dieselben zweckm„ssig zu behandeln und zu heilen... etc. transl. J.G.
Mller
Comments: "The Complete Art of Horseshoeing..."


Year Published: 1834
Author: Clater, Francis
Title: Pferde Hausarzt, nach den 25 Original Ausgabe herausgegeben von
J.C.F. Lentin. Nebst ein Veterin„r Pharmacopie als Anhang.
Comments: Another German translation of "Every man his own farrier..."
1783.


Year Published: 1834
Author: Wstefeld, Hei. Andr.
Title: šber den Beschlag und die Behandlung gesunder und kranker Fsse der
Pferde.
Comments: "On the Shoeing and Handling of healthy and diseased Hoofs of
Horses"


Year Published: 1834
Author: Percivall, William
Title: Hippopathology: A Systematic Treatise on the Disorders and Lameness
of the Horse, with their modern and most approved methods of cure,
embracing the doctrines of the English and French Veterinary Schools,
...Dr. Coleman,etc
Comments: Smith has high praise: "These works are couched in language
which is always attractive and frequently charming. He never leaves one
in doubt as to his meaning; if he does not know he says so. He draws
widely on the experience of others, and quotes his authority. When he
makes a statement it is definite; there is exident striving for meticulous
accuracy. This style of veterinary literature was new, and it was
intended only for theprofessional." Smith also notes that Percival was
the first to describe the suspensory ligament as elastic.


Year Published: 1835
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: A Brief Description of the Foot of the Horse
Comments: Smith says: "This acccount is extracted from B. Clark, Freeman,
and Coleman."


Year Published: 1835
Author: Kennedy, John Pendleton
Title: Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency
Comments: Although this classic is a fictionalized account of the
Revolutionary War, as it dragged on towards the end in Virginia and the
Carolinas with neighbors fighting neighbors, the main character is
described as a "blacksmith-sergeant" and from his name and service in
place of a physician, probably also a farrier. Kennedy was a contemporary
and friend of Edgar Allen Poe, and also was in politics.


Year Published: 1835
Author: Balassa, Constantin
Title: L'Art de Ferrer les Chevaux sans faire usage de la force, selon les
moyens rationnels d‚duits de la Psicologie du Cheval. Traduit par Fortun‚
de Brack ... Avec Six Planches.
Comments: Apparently a second French translation of Balassa's "Shoeing
without Force."


Year Published: 1835
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: A description of two ancient horse-shoes, found near Silbury Hill,
in Wiltshire
Comments: Fleming says: "This hill, which is situated on the road from
London to Bath, is nothing more than a mound of large size, and is
believed to be of great antiquity; by some it has even been supposed to be
the appendage of a Druidical temple...." Fleming goes on to quote Clark:
"The nails [still in the shoes] were not pointed, as now-a-days; and
appear to have been driven only a short distance in the hoof, and the end
that had passed throughwas bent round and lay close to the side of the
foot for safety." Fleming elsewhere (page 219) notes the Moors did
likewise: "Their scarcity of iron obliges them to... hammering the
nail-points close to the face of the hoof... so as to preserve them in a
state fit for use a second time, by making a new head." Similar shoes are
in the Museum at Cirencester, Gloucestershire.


Year Published: 1835
Author: Santos, Antonio
Title: Terapeutica mecanica con obstetricia y arte de herrar.
Comments: "Mechanical therapeutics with obstetrics and the art of shoeing"


Year Published: 1835
Author: Stephen, George, Sir
Title: The Adventures of a Gentleman in Search of a Horse. by Caveat
Emptor
Comments: Huth notes that Caveat Emptor was the pen name of Sir George
Stephen. From the title, and the fact that the RCVS has a copy, I would
guess it gives some good advice on identifying foot and leg problems.


Year Published: 1835
Author: Perrier, Bernard
Title: Des Moyens d'Avoir les Meilleurs Chevaux; ou, de l'Importance de la
Forme et de l'Aplomb Naturels du Sabot du Cheval pour la Conservation de
ses Qualites
Comments: Fleming says: "M. Perrier, believing that the ordinary expansion
theory was a fallacy, and that the supposed movement took place at the
anterior part of the foot, introduced a method of shoeing.... ...in many
respects, almost exactly the reverse of that in every-day use." It is bad
enough to think the hoof should move at the heel, but even worse at the
toe! Although his preferred shoe--narrow at the toe and wide at the heels
is good.


Year Published: 1836
Author: Balassa, Constantin
Title: The Art of Shoeing, Without the Application of Force... Transl.
from German by Frederic Shoberl...
Comments:


Year Published: 1837
Author: Youatt, William
Title: Das Pferd seine Zucht, Behandlung, Structur, Mangel und
Krankheiten, mit einer Abhandlung ber den Fuhrwessen und ein
vollst„ndiger-Register. Unter der Leitung der Londoner Gesellschaft zur
verbreitung nutzlicher Kennt.
Comments: A German translation by C. Hering of "The Horse" 1831.


Year Published: 1837
Author: Viborg, Carl
Title: Beslaglaere eller kunsten at besl† hesten, aeslet, muulaeslet og
oxsen
Comments: Farriery or the art of shoeing horse, donkey, mule, and oxen.


Year Published: 1838
Author: Ritchie, Thomas
Title: Observations on the Functions of the Foot
Comments: Smith says: "I have been unable to trace any copy of this book.
Ritchie, who graduated in 1830, had very original and interesting views on
the foot, if we may judge by his brief paper on the subject communicated
to the Veterinary Medical Society on 1st May, 1838."


Year Published: 1838
Author: Skeavington, George
Title: The Modern System of Farriery, as practised at the present time at
the Royal Veterinary College and from twenty years' practice of the author
Comments: Smith notes the book was written for the general public, and "It
did not enhance the reputation of the profession."


Year Published: 1838
Author: D'Arboval, Hurtrel
Title: Dictionnaire de M‚decine, de Chirurgerie et de HygŠine V‚t‚rinaire.
Comments: Zundel, 1883, speaks of D'Arboval as one who had success with
treatment of quittor by surgical removal of the lateral cartilage.


Year Published: 1839
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: Disorders of the Foot of the Horse
Comments: This was a compilation of many of his earlier papers and short
works.
Clark highly recommends hoof section for treating sidebones; blames
excessive trimming of hoof and wet for causing canker; he also blames wet
clay or poultices as a cause of disorganized hoof; and he attacks
Coleman's patented frog-pressure shoe for possibly producing navicular
disease. Smith says: "he's given a first-class account of the macroscopic
[navicular]changes"


Year Published: 1839
Author: Vatel, P.
Title: Handbuch d. Thierarzneikunde 2e. Ausg.
Comments: Vatel is mentioned by Zundel, 1883, as being one of several
inventors of a hinged shoe to treat contraction, also as one who
sucessfully treated quittor by surgical removal of the lateral cartilage.


Year Published: 1840
Author: Merk, Theodore
Title: Anleitung zum praktischen Hufbeschlag der Pferde, so wie zur
Kenntniss und Kur der vorzglichsten Hufkrankheiten; ein grundlicher aber
leichtfasslicher Unterricht fr Beschlagschmiede, Landwirthe, etc. ....
Comments: "Instructions on Practical Horseshoeing, as well as Diagnosis
and Cure of Hoof Diseases...."


Year Published: 1840
Author: Rodet, Jean Baptiste Claude
Title: De la Ferrure sous le point de vue de l'hygiŠne, ou de son
influence sur la conservation tant des animaux que de leur aptitude au
travail, suiveie des moyens d'agir sur la corne dans l'intention
d'entretenir...etc.
Comments: "On horseshoeing from the point of view of hygiene" Rodet was a
professor at the Royal Veterinary School at Alfort. Among the
illustrations is a 6-jointed shoe! He critiques a wide range of authors,
including: Bracy Clark, Moorcroft, Coleman, Freeman, White, Pembroke,
Blaine, etc.


Year Published: 1840
Author: Spooner, William Charles
Title: A Treatise on the Structure, Functions, and Diseases of the Foot
and Leg of the Horse: comprehending the comparative anatomy of these parts
in other animals...
Comments: Smith says: "This is a well-written book. The anatomical and
physiological account is good. He is particularly insistent on
Percivall's theory of the elasticity of the suspensory ligament, and its
supposed function as a spring in flexing the leg and preventing early
exhaustion.... He clearly describes the secondary laminae of the foot....
[discovered by Mayo] ...Shoeing is simple and sensible.... drawings of
ancient shoes..."


Year Published: 1840
Author: Riquet, Antoine Joseph Augustin
Title: Mar‚chalerie. Expos‚ de la m‚thode de ferrure podom‚trique … froid
et … domicile, par M. Riquet
Comments: "Podometers"--tools used to measure the size and shape of the
hoof as a pattern for the shoe, became popular in France about this
time--this was a promotion of one of them. They also had brief popularity
in Germany but not elsewhere. Riquet's podometer was a metal chain-like
devise, and is pictured and described on p.188 in Peuch, 1896 (q.v.). The
purpose was to facilitate shoeing at the stable instead of the forge, and
avoid hot shoeing.Here, even before the advent of automobiles, they were
trying to get the farrier to do the work at the stable instead of taking
the horse to the forge!


Year Published: 1841
Author: Mercier,
Title: Du crapaud ou podoparenchydermite chronique du cheval, suivie du
pi‚tin, ou podoparenchydermite du mouton.
Comments: "On canker of the horse... and sheep"


Year Published: 1841
Author: Dabrigeon, C. A.
Title: Essai sur la ferrure podom‚trique, ou la maniŠre de ferrer les
chevaux … froid et … domicile
Comments: I don't know if this is a critique of Riquet's method, or a
competitor. See also Riquet, 1840.


Year Published: 1841
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: Anleitung zum zweckm„ssigen Beschlagen sowohl fehlerfreier als
fehlerhafter Hufe. Entw. von den Lehrern an der Thierarzneischule in
Carlsruhe
Comments: "Instructions for practical shoeing as well as shoeing normal
and faulty hoofs. Developed by the teachers at the veterinary school in
Carlsruhe."


Year Published: 1841
Author: Hekmeijer, F. C.
Title: Handleiding tot de leer van het Hoefbeslag ... Voorgedragen in 10
Lessen
Comments: "Handbook for the learning of Horseshoeing ... Treated in 10
Lessons"
See also Hekmeyer, 1862.


Year Published: 1841
Author: Zerrener, Theodor Ferdinand
Title: Der Wohlunterrichtete Cur- und Hufschmied oder grndliche anweisung
zu einem natur- und vernunftgem„ssen beschlage gesunder und fehlerhafter
hufe, sowie zu den gew”hnlichsten, bei pferden vorkommenden operationen
...etc
Comments: "The well-educated Farrier and Horseshoer, or thorough
instructions for shoeing according to nature and reason shoeing healthy
and damaged hoofs as well as the most common operations on horses...etc."


Year Published: 1842
Author: Clater, Francis
Title: M‚decine V‚t‚rinaire. By Duvome.
Comments: A French translation of "Every man his own farrier..." 1783.


Year Published: 1842
Author: Spooner, William Charles
Title: [White's] A Compendium of the Veterinary Art. 17th ed. "Entirely
reconstructed... bringing the work up to the present state of veterinary
science." by W.C. Spooner
Comments:


Year Published: 1842
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: Manuel de mar‚chalerie … l'usage des ‚lŠves mar‚chaux de l'‚cole
royale de cavalerie.
Comments: "Manual of horseshoeing for the use of student horseshoers of
the royal cavalry school"


Year Published: 1842
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: Some Account of the Circulation of the Blood in the Foot of the
Horse
Comments: Smith says: "...gives a minute account of the arrangements of
the vessels of the foot, extracted mainly from his previous publications.
One, he says, is struck by the disproportion which the venous bears to the
arterial vessels. 'The foot, in fact, is reposing, as it were, on a nest
of veins,' which he compares to a water-bed. Strangely enough, he does
not mention that these veins are valveless."


Year Published: 1842
Author: Cherry, Frederick Clifford
Title: Art of Shoeing Horses by the Sieur de Solleysel, with notes on his
practice.
Comments: Smith says: "This is a translation of Solleysell's work. Cherry
says that it gives more information than any modern account with which he
is acquainted."


Year Published: 1842
Author: Leblanc, P.
Title: Catalogue des Livres, Dessins et Estampes de la Bibliotheque de feu
M. J. B. Huzzard...mis en Ordre et R‚dig‚ par P. LeBlanc
Comments: Smith says:"Library catalogues are an unfailing source of
information especially those indexed by subjects. The celebrated
Professor Huzard, Inspector-General of French Veterinary Schools, formed a
private library containing some 40,000 volumes. ...there were very few
veterinary works missing from it, while it contained many rare and
priceless MSS. ...Part of the Huzard Collection is now in the Veterinary
School of Alfort."


Year Published: 1842
Author: Gross, Johann Christoph.
Title: Theorie und Praxis der Hufbeschlagskunst. Eine Anleitung zum
Beschlag, zur Erkenntniss, Beurtheilung und Behandlung gesunde und kranke
Hufe der Pferde, etc.
Comments: "Theory and Practise of Horseshoeing. An Introduction to
Shoeing, with Diagnosis, Evaluation and Treatment of healthy and diseased
Horse Hoofs, etc."


Year Published: 1843
Author: Papin, Mathurin
Title: Guide du Mar‚chal-ferrant.
Comments: "Horseshoer's Guide"


Year Published: 1843
Author: Delwart, L. V.
Title: Du carcinome du pied du cheval (crapaud) et de ses moyens curatifs.
Comments: "On cancer of the foot of the horse (canker) and the means of
cure."


Year Published: 1843
Author: Youatt, William
Title: The Horse, By William Youatt. A New Edition, with Numerous
Illustra- tions. Together with a General History of the Horse; A
Dissertation on the American Trotting Horse... An Essay on the Ass and the
Mule, by J. S. Skinner
Comments: 6 pages on hoof anatomy, 21 pages of diseases of the hoof, 11
pages on shoeing. Youatt recommended paring the sole until it gave to
thumb pressure, and unilateral (one sided) nailing of the shoe to the
hoof--he believed that contraction of the hoof and numerous other diseases
were due to inability of the hoof to expand, and lack of moisture--very
destructive misinformation...J.S. Skinner was Assistant Post Master
General & Editor of the Turf Register.


Year Published: 1843
Author: Clarendon, Thomas
Title: An Examination into the True Seat and Extent of the Powers of the
Horse
Comments: Smith says it is "A booklet based on the belief that the body
was propelled by the hind-legs and not by the fore-legs."--an erroneous,
but still widely held belief.


Year Published: 1843
Author: Rosser, W. H.
Title: The Improved Art of Farriery, Containing a Complete View of the
Structure and Economy of the Horse, Directions for Feeding, Grooming,
Shoeing, Etc....Completed to the Present State of Veterinary Science
Comments: Smith notes he follows the lines of B. Clark, Percivall, and
Blaine, and lists him as W. H. Rosser, as does the National Union
Catalog--however Huth and Grimshaw list it as W. H. Prosser. There was a
Thomas Prosser who was Sainbel's assistant after Blaine (Pugh, 1962 pg.
60). It seems possible that Prosser is correct and that he might be a
descendant of Thomas Prosser.
DNLM lists the 1857 ed. as by J. White, compiled by W. H. Rosser.


Year Published: 1844
Author: Strauss,
Title: Handbuch des Huf= und Klauenbeschlags.
Comments:


Year Published: 1845
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: Every Man His Own Farrier
Comments: Pady says: "Attributed to William Burdon; possibly a re-issue of
an undated 19th century London edition, said to be by Henry Bracken, of
Burden's Gentlemen's Pocket Farrier..." ???


Year Published: 1845
Author: Clater, Francis
Title: Every Man His Own Farrier: Containing the Causes, Symptoms, and
Most Approved Methods of Cure, of the Diseases of Horses. by Francis
Clater... and his son John Clater 1st American from the 28th London
Edition
Comments: See notes on the English editons.


Year Published: 1845
Author: Miles, William
Title: The Horse's Foot and How to Keep it Sound, with illustrations
Comments: Nice anatomical drawings. The principles are along the lines of
Turner, 1832 (q.v.)--promoting paring of the sole, expansion of the hoof,
moistening of the hoof (packing it with cow dung at night). He recommends
shoes similar to Turner's with "unilateral nailing"--4 nails on the
outside and 1 or 2 at the toe of the inside, with a toe clip.Mostly draws
from Turner, who is mentioned (pg. 30) and probably Bracy Clark.


Year Published: 1845
Author: Auzoux, Louis
Title: Tableau synoptique du pied du cheval. Anatomie Classique.
Comments: "Overview of the foot of the horse. Classic Anatomy."


Year Published: 1845
Author: Berthelot,
Title: Pratique de l'art du Mar‚chal-ferrant
Comments: "The Practice of the art of Horseshoeing"


Year Published: 1846
Author: Wannovius, Alex.
Title: Hufbeschlags-Catechismus fr praktische Hufschmiede...
Comments: "Horseshoeing-Catechism for practical Horseshoers..."


Year Published: 1846
Author: Moorcroft, William
Title: "Navicular Disease" article in The Veterinarian magazine 1846
Comments: This is the publication of a letter by Moorcroft written in
1804. Moorcroft apparently preceded both Turner and Sewell in knowledge
of navicular disease and in surgical neurectomy for treatment as early as
1794. He was aware that the various manifestations of navicular
disease--injury to the flexor tendon, and/or growths or excavations of the
navicular bone leading to pointing of the foot, contraction and
lameness.First neurectomy -- see also Goodwin, 1820, for an account of
Sewell's operation, and Anonymous, 1701, for an earlier claim.


Year Published: 1846
Author: Barthelemy,
Title: Bulletin de la Society V‚t‚rinaire, 1846
Comments: In response to Riquet's booklet, 1840 (q.v.), the French
Minister of War in 1845 issued an order to stop hot-fitting of shoes. The
army then designed a test comparing hot and cold fitting, by shoeing the
near side cold and the off side hot. The result (reported in this
bulletin) was that 1 per 58 shoes was lost of those cold fitted, and only
1 per 183 shoes lost of the hot fitted. (Fleming, 1869, pg.561)


Year Published: 1847
Author: Mariage, P. F.
Title: Gu‚rison Infailliable dan tous les cas du Javart Cartilagineux
(Vulgairement Applele Javart, Encorne) en Quinze Jours sans Operation; 42
Observations Consecutives par le mˆme procede
Comments: An infallible treatment for quittor?


Year Published: 1847
Author: Clarendon, Thomas
Title: The Horse's Foot
Comments: Huth says it has to do with the the foot and shoeing, Smith does
not list it, but lists "An Examination into the True Seat and Extent of
the Powers of the Horse".


Year Published: 1847
Author: Farriers, Worshipful Company of
Title: A List of the Master, Wardens, Assistants and Livery of the
Worshipful Company of Farriers...
Comments:


Year Published: 1847
Author: Miles, William
Title: The Horse's Foot and How to Keep it Sound. From the 3rd London
edition.
Comments: In the preface to the 2nd ed. he says: "I have been induced, at
the solicitation of several friends, who have deplored to me their total
want of anything like useful, or practical knowledge upon the subject of
shoeing, to embody for their guidance some rough notes which I had made
upon the soundness of the horse's foot in general, and on shoeing in
particular. ...I disclaim all pretension.... amateurs' discoveries are...
of small value."


Year Published: 1847
Author: Clater, Francis
Title: Le Nouveau v‚t‚rinaire domestique, ou L'art de guerir soi-mˆme ses
chevaux et autres animaux domestiques. By P.L. Pr‚tot.
Comments: Another French translation of "Every man his own farrier..."


Year Published: 1848
Author: Leyon, Mathias
Title: H„stens fot och b„sta s„ttetatt varda densamma med synnerligt
afseende pa Skoningen
Comments: "Horse's foot..."


Year Published: 1848
Author: Shaw, Austin C.
Title: Observations on the Expansion of the Foot
Comments: Smith says: "The writer was only recently qualified [graduated],
but he had the courage of his convictions, and denied all the then
accepted physiology of the horse's foot. The only movement which he
admits occurs is one which is backward and downward at the front [top] of
the foot; this, he says, acts as a powerful spring and wards off
concussion."


Year Published: 1848
Author: Falke, Johann Ernst Ludwig
Title: Lehrbuch ber den Hufbeschlag und die Hufkrankheiten
Comments: "Textbook on Horseshoeing and Hoof Diseases"


Year Published: 1848
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: The Anatomy of the Horse's Foot, representing the blood vessels,
ligaments, bones, and The Hoof Prepared for Shoeing.
Comments: Comben notes: "Chart 50 x 37 cms, divided and mounted on
linen.... The chart depicts 2 large and 17 smaller Figures, mostly highly
coloured, of the Horse's Foot, with explanatory text...."


Year Published: 1848
Author: Hartmann, H. Moritz
Title: Der geschickte Grob- und Hufschmied, oder vollst„ndige Anweisung
zur Verfertigung aller Arten regul„rer und irregul„rer Hufbeschl„ge der
verschiedenen Wagen und Chaisebeschl„ge...etc. by Friedrich Harzer
[pseud.]
Comments: Huth notes that Friedrich Harzer was a pseudonym used by Dr.
Hartmann. Zundel quotes Hartmann: "As long as horses will have corns,
horse shoeing can not pass as an art.... Without shoeing there would be no
corns...." Simply not true: a) the most common cause of corns is the hoof
overgrowing the shoe and allowing the heel of the shoe to rest on the sole
--which is due to neglect, not shoeing, and b) even barefoot horses get
corns.


Year Published: 1848
Author: Janne, Auguste Jacques
Title: Bijdrage tot de Kennis en de Behandling von de Ziekte der Hoeven
bij het Paard, bekend onder den naam van Straal- or Hoefkanker.
Comments: "Addition to the Knowledge and Handling of the Disease of Hoofs
of Horses, known by the name of frog- or hoofcanker."


Year Published: 1849
Author: Gloag, John William
Title: Experiments on the Expansion of the Horse's Foot
Comments: Smith says: "His experiments went to show that there was no
lateral expansion either above or below, but that a bulging of the elastic
tissue around the coronet and a swelling of the tissues at the heels
occurred when weight came on the foot... ...There was also a downward and
backward movement of the whole hoof, the frog descending at its anterior
part, and the sole descending in the vicinity of the navicular bursa."


Year Published: 1849
Author: Knowlson, John C.
Title: The Complete Farrier, or Horse-Doctor: a Treatise on the Diseases
of Horses
Comments: Huth lists it as having to do with the foot and shoeing. Pady
says: "Written from experiences which spanned over 90 years of age, the
book presents an explanation of the disorders, and safe and easy medicines
for horse cures."


Year Published: 1849
Author: Hodgson, J. Thomas
Title: Illustrative Farriery: A series of Lithographs of the different
Varieties of Horses' Feet, the states Unshod and Shod by different
Methods; with explanations of practical utility.
Comments: Smith says: "He wrote largely on shoeing, and was a believer in
'manufactured' shoes." also "The book consists of about 50 plates
from Hodgson's pencil, showing from scientific principles to what height
nails should be driven, by what scale of dimensions shoes of all sizes may
be cast or made, adapted with nail holes in their proper place, and fit
for immediate application."Smith,IV-2, notes that Hodgson ascertained
[mathematically?] the angle to be 45 degrees, but 43 degrees when bearing
weight....


Year Published: 1849
Author: Renault, EugŠne
Title: BibliothŠque V‚t‚rinaire, ou Collection des Principaux M‚moires
Publi‚s sur les Diff‚rentes Branches de la M‚decine V‚t‚rinaire...
Recueillis par M.M. Renault...Delafond...H. Bouley...Reynal...VerHeyen...
Comments: "Veterinary Library, or Collection of the Principle Papers
Published in the Different Branches of Veterinary Medicine... Collected
by Renault... Delafond... H. Bouley... Reynal... VerHeyen..."


Year Published: 1849
Author: Cochet de Savigny, P. C. M.
Title: Cours ‚l‚mentaire d'hippiatrique et de mar‚chalerie, a l'usage de
la gendarmerie.
Comments: "Elementary course of horsestudy and horseshoeing..."


Year Published: 1850
Author: Dadd, George H.
Title: The Advocate of Veterinary Reform and Outlines of Anatomy and
Physiology of the Horse; also A General History of... Veterinary Science
in England, w/ Practical Observations on Feeding, Watering, Grooming,
Shoeing, &c
Comments:


Year Published: 1850
Author: Jacquemin, Fran‡ois Maxime
Title: Petite Monographie des boiteries du cheval
Comments: "Short Monograph on the Lameness of Horses"


Year Published: 1850
Author: Skeavington, George
Title: The Modern System of Farriery, as practised at the present time at
the Royal Veterinary College and from twenty years' practice of the author
Comments:


Year Published: 1850
Author: Brogniez, Andr‚ J.
Title: Manuel du mar‚chal ferrant
Comments: "Manual of Horseshoeing"NUC--NN,


Year Published: 1850
Author: Haycock, William
Title: The Gentleman's Stable Manual, or a Treatise on the construction of
the Stable; also on the feeding and grooming of Horses, on the hygienic
treatment of the sick horse, on shoeing... on Equine diseases and
accidents...
Comments: 3rd edition has 28 pages on the foot and shoeing. "It is too
much the practice with many authors who treat upon the subject of horses,
to speak of shoeing as "a great but necessary evil." So far, however, from
this being the case, it will be found to be a decided advantage.
...Writers, therefore, who so dolorously lament the necessity... may be
severally suspected of ability to write a considerable amount of
nonsense." (3rd pg 80)On pg 98, he explains the procedure and
advantages of using gutta percha, as an artificial sole.See also
gutta-percha in the Glossary.


Year Published: 1850
Author: Hertwig, Carl Heinrich
Title: Praktisches Handbuch der Chirurgie fr Thier„rzte
Comments: Zundel, 1883, page 155, mentions him as one of the German
veterinarians who used surgical removal of the lateral cartilage as
treatment for quittor.


Year Published: 1850
Author: Youatt, William
Title: Youatt on the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse, with their
Remedies; also Practical Rules to Buyers, Breeders, Breakers, Smiths, &c.
Being the Most Important Parts of the English Edition of "Youatt on the
Horse"
Comments: The title page continues: Somewhat Simplified. Brought Down to
1849, by W.C. Spooner, M.R.C.V.S. Author of Several Veterinarian Works...
etc. Spooner improves Youatt: "There is nothing in the appearance of the
feet which would enable us to decide when contraction is or is not
destructive to the usefulness of the horse.... Lameness usually
accompanies the beginning of contraction... but it does not always exist
when...longstanding."About 55 pages on the foot and shoeing.


Year Published: 1851
Author: Brogniez, Andr‚ J.
Title: Handboek voor den hoefsmid
Comments: "Handbook for the Horseshoer"


Year Published: 1851
Author: Dombale, Henri de
Title: Le Mar‚chal expert fran‡ais, contenant une connaissance exacte du
cheval, etc.
Comments: "The French Farrier...."


Year Published: 1851
Author: Sloan, Walter B.
Title: The Complete Farrier, or Horse Doctor, 4th ed. enlarged and
improved
Comments: Pady says: Containing full and complete directions for choosing,
breeding, rearing, and general management, it also has accurate
descriptions, causes, and peculiar symptoms and approved methods of curing
all diseases to which horses are subject."


Year Published: 1851
Author: Youatt, William
Title: Le Cheval. par William Youatt Traduit de l'Anglais par H.
Cluseret
Comments: "The Horse"


Year Published: 1851
Author: Ercolani, Count
Title: Historico-Analytical Researches on the Writers on Veterinary
Science
Comments: Smith says: "A learned and critical writer, whose examination of
the documents in the birthplace of modern veterinary science is especially
valuable."


Year Published: 1851
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: Nuevo manual completo de veterinaria, que contiene el conocimiento
general de los caballos, el modo de criarlos, de cudarlos y de
adiestrarlos; ... los preceptos sobre el herrage, etc.
Comments: "New complete manual of veterinary medicine... the rules of
horseshoeing, etc."


Year Published: 1851
Author: Bouley, Henri Marie
Title: Trait‚ de l'organisation du pied du cheval, comprennant l'‚tude de
la structure, des fonctions, et des maladies, de cet organe. Avec un
Atlas
Comments: Hunting refers to Bouley's "Atlas of the Foot", I assume that
Hunting was referring to this French edition. Peuch (1896 q.v.) is
dedicated "A la Memoire de H. Bouley"Fleming (p576), quotes Bouley:
"The art of the farrier ought to be to preserve the hoof the integrity of
its form,... its functions; and this result can only be obtained in
leaving to the bars, the buttresses, and the frog and sole all their power
of resistance...."NUC--DNLM, PPULC, DLC,


Year Published: 1852
Author: Hamm, Wilhelm Ritter von
Title: Beknopte Handleiding tot de Kennis, het doelmatige Opfokken in
Verzorgen van het Paard: de Behandeling van den Hoef, het Hoefbeschlag en
het Aanbrengen .... etc. [transl. by A. J. de Bruijn] .
Comments: "...Handling of the Hoof, Horseshoeing...."


Year Published: 1852
Author: Miles, William
Title: Der Huf des Pferdes und dessen fehlerfreie Erhaltung. Nebst einem
Anhange ber den Beschlag im Allgemeinen und den der Jagdpferde
insbesondere Aus dem Englischen nach der siebenten Auflage ins Deutsche...
von Guitard
Comments: "The Horse's Foot and How to Keep it Sound... translated by
Guitard"


Year Published: 1852
Author: Einsiedel, Curt Heinrich Ernst, Graf von
Title: Einige Worte zu William Miles' "Huf des Pferdes und dessen
fehlerfreie Erhaltung"
Comments: A commentary on Miles' "The Horse's Foot.."


Year Published: 1852
Author: Hamm, Wilhelm Ritter von
Title: Anviisning at uppf”da. Ofwers„ttning.
Comments: "Directions for Feeding. Translations"


Year Published: 1852
Author: Defays, Fran‡ois Joseph
Title: Manuel de m‚decine v‚t‚rinaire Exterieur, Anatomie, Physiologie,
Ferrure et Parturitionpar Defays & Husson
Comments: "Manual of veterinary medicine...Shoeing and Birthing"Zundel
mentions Defays as the author of one of the volumious reference works on
the horse's foot--I assume this is the one to which he refers (or maybe it
is Defays, 1861).


Year Published: 1852
Author: Rienecker, Gotthold
Title: Der Hufschmied, oder grndliche Anweisung, die Pferde auf die
volkommenste Art zu beschlagen
Comments: "The Horseshoer, or thorough instructions to shoe horses in the
most perfect way"This may be a later edition of 1828 book by Rienecker,
although Huth does not indicate this.


Year Published: 1852
Author: Hamm, Wilhelm Ritter von
Title: Anleitung zur richtigen Zucht und Behandlung der Pferde. Inhaltend
Aufzucht; Paarung der Pferde; Eigenschaften des Hengstes und der Stte;...
šber die Behandlung des Hufs... etc.
Comments: "Instructions for the correct breeding and handling of horses.
...On the handling of hoofs... etc." Other books listed in the National
Union Catalog by Dr. Hamm include ones on puppet plays, winemaking, and
other agricultural topics.NUC-CtY;


Year Published: 1852
Author: Bekr Ibn Bedr, Abou
Title: Le Nƒc‚rŒ. La Perfection des deux Arts [Horsemanship and
Veterinary], ou Trait‚ Complet d'Hippologie et Hippiatrie Arabes, par Abou
Bekr Ibn Bedr. Traduit de l'Arabe par M. Perron
Comments: The original was published in the 13th century (q.v.).


Year Published: 1852
Author: Rey, Alfred Augustin
Title: Trait‚ de mar‚chalerie v‚t‚rinaire; comprenant l'‚tude de la
ferrure du cheval et des autres animaux domestiques, sous le rapport des
d‚fauts d'aplomb, des d‚fectuosit‚s et des maladies du pied
Comments: Peuch (1896) uses some of Rey's illustrations of foriegn shoes.
Fleming, page 564, quotes Rey: "Advantages of hot shoeing. ...The shoeing
is more solid, because the nails are not broken by the displacement of the
shoe; there is a better adaption of the clip at the toe, and intimate
adhesion... Hot shoeing endows the hoof with more resistance; the horn,
heated by the iron is less hygrometrical, and less permeable by fluids."


Year Published: 1853
Author: Fuchs, Christian Joseph
Title: Neuer Katechismus der deutschen Hufbeschlagkunst. Ein Handbuch fr
den Schulunterricht und die Selbstbelehrung
Comments: "New Catechism on German Horseshoeing. A Handbook for School
Classes and Self-instruction"


Year Published: 1853
Author: Hoffmeister, Friedrich Wilhelm
Title: Kritische Beleuchtung des Miles' schen Hufbeschlags und
Vergleichung desselben mit dem deutschen
Comments: "Critical Clarification of Miles' Horseshoeing and Comparison
with the German "Another comment on Miles'.


Year Published: 1853
Author: Flemming, Gustav Johann Georg Friedrich
Title: Hufbeschlags-Katechismus zum Unterricht und zur Selbstbelehrung fr
Hufschmiede, zunachst in den Grossherzogthumern. Auf Veranlassung des
Mecklenburgischen patriotischen Vereins abgefasst von Flemming
Comments: "Horseshoers-Catechism with Lessons and Self-instruction for
Horseshoers..." Although this book's title is written in German, Laag is
a Dutch word, and so would seem to be a town in the Netherlands.


Year Published: 1853
Author: Spooner, William Charles
Title: The Structure and Diseases of the Horse, with their Remedies; also
Practical Rules to Buyers, Breeders, Breakers, Smiths.... To which is
prefixed an Account of the Breeds of the U.S. Compiled by Henry S.
Randall
Comments:


Year Published: 1853
Author: Ellerbrock, Ignatz Joseph
Title: Zoogtijd en bij het Spenen van het Veulen; Berplefing der Veulens
tot op hunnen vollen Wasdom als Paard; Hoef-Beslag bij jonge Paarden, en
het Geshickt Maken tot den Arbeid en den Verkoop.... etc.
Comments: "Feeding the foal until he's a full-grown horse; Shoeing the
young horse to go to work, or to sale..."


Year Published: 1853
Author: Boje, Hans Peter
Title: Die Nothwendigsten Huf- und Klaueneisen, und die Hauptregeln beim
Hufbeschlage. Als Erl„uterung zu der von dem stellvertretenden
Lehrschmied Carl Friedrich Arndt angefertigten Sammlung von
Muster-Hufeisen / P. Jessen
Comments: "The most necessary horse and ox shoes, and the main rules of
horseshoeing. As commentary to Carl Friedrich Arndt sample shoes."


Year Published: 1854
Author: Anker, Matthias
Title: Die Fusskrankheiten der Pferde und des Rindviehes
Comments: "The Foot Diseases of Horses and Cattle" Zundel mentions this
as one of the voluminous reference works on the subject of the horse's
foot.NUC - DNAL; PU-V; PPULC;


Year Published: 1854
Author: Cuming, A.
Title: Horse-shoeing as it is done, and as it ought to be. A letter
addressed to the President and Members of the Saint John Agricultural
Society
Comments:


Year Published: 1854
Author: Jones, John O.
Title: Patent Elastic Horse-Shoe
Comments: This is an advertisement in the RCVS collection.


Year Published: 1854
Author: Dadd, George H.
Title: The Modern Horse Doctor: Containing Practical Observations on the
Causes, Nature, and Treatment of Disease and Lameness in Horses.
Embracing the Most Recent and Approved Methods According to an Enlightened
System...etc.
Comments: Smithcors says he was probably the first to routinely use
anesthesia. He came from England to Boston in 1845, started the American
Veterinary Journal magazine, and started the Boston Veterinary Institute:
"The school was to be conducted at his place of business. One session of
three to four months, at a tuition fee of $100, or two sessions:
'...occupying a period of from eight to tweleve months,' for $200 were
offered...."There is no discussion of shoeing in this book, and only a
little in the way of hoof diseases.


Year Published: 1854
Author: Gourdon, Jean
Title: l‚ments de chirurgie v‚t‚rinaire
Comments: Zundel, page 1, lists as one of the writers of one of the
voluminous
works on the horse's foot.


Year Published: 1855
Author: Casas, Nicolas
Title: Arte de Herrar. / Nicolas Casas de Mendoza
Comments: "The Art of Shoeing"


Year Published: 1855
Author: Pillwax, Johann
Title: Lehrbuch der Hufbeschlagslehre mit Inbegriff der Lehre vom
Klauenbeschlage
Comments: "Textbook of Horseshoeing, including Cattle shoeing"


Year Published: 1855
Author: Clark, Bracy
Title: Description of a New Horse-Shoe Removable at Pleasure invented by
Bracy Clark
Comments: Smith says: "This is only a notice of his final pattern of
nailless shoe." also "Of these he invented some 40 different patterns,
and the question occupied his mind for 50 years." See also "Stereoplea"
(1817)


Year Published: 1855
Author: Dubourdieu, Charles
Title: Simple observations sur la ferrure
Comments: "Simple observations on horseshoeing"


Year Published: 1855
Author: Brogniez, Andr‚ J.
Title: Brogniez Ciruj¡a veterinaria, compendidda, arreglada y adicionada
con una Zoologia veterinaria aplicada a la Zootechnia, el Arte de herrar
en frio y a fuego, y nociones sobre el forjado, etc. [transl. by Nicolas
Casas]
Comments: "Brogniez Veterinary Surgery..., the Art of shoeing cold and
hot, and notions about forging, etc."


Year Published: 1855
Author: Rarey, John Solomon
Title: The Modern Art of Taming Wild Horses
Comments: Karasszon, 1988 pg. 332, describes Rarey's "art" as hucksterism:
"Rarey... presented as a horse-trainer and thus earned much money. On the
occasion of a demonstration in London (1858) he collected œ 20,000.
Rarey's method was studied by the famous Hungarian horse-trainer Captain
Balassa, who proved that Rarey and his partner Buntig shoed
chloroform-anaesthetized horses."


Year Published: 1855
Author: Going, J. A.
Title: Veterinary dictionary and horseman's guide.
Comments: The last 4 pages of the book are it's "Treatise on shoeing".
Apparently he agreed with Roberge/Bonner, as Magner quotes from this book:
"I can safely say that the nearest approach [to perfection] which has ever
been made in this connection (horse-shoeing and the study of the horse's
foot) has been made by Robert Bonner, Esq.(q.v.), of New York... through
his almost superhuman knowledge in this department."


Year Published: 1855
Author: Miles, William
Title: A Plain Treatise on Horse Shoeing, with illustrations
Comments: Unfortunately, there are very few things in this book worth
quoting, but this is accurate: "I have said you should round off the back
edge of the web at the toe [of the hind shoe], to prevent an 'over-reach.'
It is commonly supposed, that this also is done by the front of the toe;
whereas it is always done by the back edge [of the web at the toe]." In
the 7th ed., p. 39 he notes that the available gutta-percha is now
adulterated andworthless.


Year Published: 1856
Author: Hitzinger, Georg
Title: Precetti elementari di ferratura teorico-pratica.
Comments:


Year Published: 1856
Author: Mussgnug, Christoph
Title: Der praktische Hufbeschlag nach einer neuen und „usserst
vortheilhaften Methode. Das Resultat vieljahriger und vielseitiger
Erfahrungen und Erfindungen auf dem Gebiete der Hufbeschlagkunst. ...etc.
Comments: "The Practice of Horseshoeing according to a new and most
advantageous method."


Year Published: 1856
Author: Peters, Anton Heinrich Fritz
Title: Katechismus der Hufbeschlagskunst. Anleitung zum Selbstunterricht
im Hufbeschlag
Comments: "Catechism of Horseshoeing. Instructions for self-teaching
shoeing"


Year Published: 1856
Author: Tayleure, Clifton W.
Title: Horseshoe Robinson; or the Battle of Kings Mountain. A Legendary
Patriotic Drama in Three Acts.
Comments: This is an odd mistake for Huth, who lists the book as "The
Robinson Horseshoe" on the subject of horse's feet. According to the
National Union Catalog, the correct title is "Horseshoe Robinson; or the
Battle of Kings Mountain. A Legendary Patriotic Drama in Three Acts."
This is based on Kennedy's "Horse-Shoe Robinson" 1835 (q.v.)--nothing to
do with shoes and shoeing, but at least the protagonist would appear to
have been a farrier.


Year Published: 1856
Author: Brogniez, Andr‚ J.
Title: Der fertige Hufschmied oder Kunst des Hufbeschlages. Nach der
Anleitung von M. Brogniez, Ritter des belg. Leop. Ordens und Professor au
der Staatsveterin„rschule. Ein Hand- und Hulfsbuch fr Hufschmiede...etc.
Comments: "The Complete Horseshoer, or Knowledge of Horseshoeing.
According to instructions by M. Brogniez...."


Year Published: 1856
Author: Miles, William
Title: A Plain Treatise on Horse-Shoeing [1st Am. edition]
Comments: This is a short book written as directions to an apprentice, or
inexperienced horseshoer. Unfortunately, the author had never shod a
horse, and knew less than he thought he did about anatomy and hoof
function. It is generally a poor practise to tell someone how to do the
job for which they were hired -- whether they are expert or not -- if they
are expert they don't need the directions, and if they are not expert,
probably can't followthe directions.


Year Published: 1856
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: Manuel de Mar‚chalerie, R‚dig‚ par le Conseil d'Instruction de
l'cole de Cavalerie, et approuv‚ par d‚cision de M. le ministre de la
guerre, en date du 31 octobre 1849, pour l'usage des ‚lŠves
mar‚chaux...etc.
Comments: "Manual of Horseshoeing, Edited by the Council of Instruction of
the Cavalry School"


Year Published: 1857
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: Petit Manuel du mar‚chal expert contenant: la maniŠre de nourrir,
pauser et gouverner les chevaux
Comments: "Little farrier's manual containing: the methods of feeding,
resting, and training horses"


Year Published: 1857
Author: Defays, Fran‡ois Joseph
Title: De la ferrure des chevaux panards et cagneux.
Comments: "Shoeing crooked-legged and splay-footed horses"


Year Published: 1857
Author: Defays, Fran‡ois Joseph
Title: Notice sur une nouvelle ferrure … glace
Comments: "Notice of a new ice shoe"


Year Published: 1857
Author: White, James
Title: The Improved Art of Farriery: a Complete View of the Structure and
Economy of the Horse... The Nature, Symptoms and Treatment of All Diseases
Incidental to Horses... and a Treatise on Racers, Hunters, and Dogs...
etc.
Comments:


Year Published: 1857
Author: Defays, Fran‡ois Joseph
Title: Notice additionelle sur la nouvelle ferrure … glace
Comments: "Additional notice for the new ice shoe"


Year Published: 1857
Author: Boje, Hans Peter
Title: Neu Zusammengestellter Hufbeschlagkasten von Peter Jessen [pseud.]
Comments: "Newly revised Horseshoeing box" Is this just an advertisement
for a shoeing tool box?


Year Published: 1857
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: Praktische Anleitung zum Ankauf oder zur Abnahme von Pferden; zur
Behandlung des Pferdehufs und dessen Beschlages, nebst Ansicht ber
Pferdezchtung, fr jngere Kavalleristen Landwirthe und Pferdeliebhaber,
etc.
Comments: "...Treatment of Horse hoofs and their shoes..."


Year Published: 1857
Author: Defays, Fran‡ois Joseph
Title: M‚moire sur l'Encastelure
Comments: "Notes on Hoof-bound" Defays patented a shoe spreader -- a sort
of handheld reverse screw-vise which was used on a shoe with bar clips to
spread a contracted hoof a little bit every couple of days. It is
pictured in Dollar, Lungwitz, and others, but is no longer used -- if the
foot was spread just a little too much the horse would be made severely
lame, and shoe metal being somewhat elastic would not stay as wide as it
was spread.


Year Published: 1857
Author: Raabe, Charles
Title: Locomotion du Cheval. Examen des Allures, Selon M. H. Bouley
Comments: "Locomotion of the Horse. Examination of the Gaits"


Year Published: 1858
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: Ledetraad ved Underviisn i skolen for Militare Beslagsmede.
Comments: "...school for Military Horseshoers"


Year Published: 1858
Author: Klemm, J. H. G.
Title: Belehrung (Vollst„ndige) ber die... neue Construction der Hufeisen
mit abnehmbaren Einsatz-Stollen sowie ber die neuerfundenen
Noth-Hufeisen. Vom Verfasser des "Kleinen Stallmeisters"
Comments: "Teachings (complete) about the ... new construction of the
horseshoes with removeable insert-caulks as well as newly invented
Noth-horseshoes. by the author of the 'Little Stall Masters'"


Year Published: 1858
Author: Wppermann, L. Ph.
Title: Het theoretische en praktische hoefbeslag. Handleiding tot het
doelmatig beslaan en behandelen van gezonde en zieke hoeven.
Comments: "The theory and practice of horseshoeing."


Year Published: 1859
Author: Sainz y Rozas, Juan Antonio
Title: Tratado Completo del Arte de herrar y forjar, etc.
Comments: "The Complete Book of the Art of shoeing and forging"Dollar
gives the 1879 date, probably the 2nd edition, but he lists the author as
Juan A. S. y Rozas.


Year Published: 1859
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: The Horseshoer's Manual
Comments:


Year Published: 1859
Author: Herbert, Henry William
Title: Hints to Horsekeepers. A Complete Manual for Horsemen; Embracing
Chapters on Mules and Ponies. By the late Henry William Herbert. (Frank
Forrester.) With Additions, Including "Baucher's System of
Horsemanship"...etc
Comments: Chapter XV is "How to Shoe a Horse"--it is 12 pages in length
and follows Miles, 1843 and Turner, 1831--after trying the "one-sided
nailing" for 6 months he recommends it for everything: "Where thrush has
appeared it may sometimes be cured by the adoption of the 'one-sided
nailing.'" (pg 212) Chapter XIV is "Farriery, etc." and gives that
period's definition: "...the performance of those common operations which
do not require... a Veterinary.."Although he says "steeper than this [45
degrees] it is very liable to contract...", the reverse is true. And he
calls most shoers and farriers quacks!!!


Year Published: 1859
Author: Prosch, V.
Title: H†ndbog i beslaglaere
Comments: Handbook of farriery


Year Published: 1860
Author: Mayhew, Edward
Title: Illustrated Horse Doctor: being an account of the various diseases
incident to the equine race with the latest mode of treatment and
requisite prescriptions
Comments: Grimshaw says: "This was, at the time, considered to be a
'Bible' and its author held in high regard, hence it went through many
editions and revisions during the next 40 to 50 years." I find it
interesting, and commendable, that Mayhew referred to the horse 'race' not
'species', and he treated them with the respect of an equal--in "Horse
Management" he describes stalls as being identical to prisons.


Year Published: 1860
Author: Klemm, J. H. G.
Title: Die Hufbeschlagskunst nach den neuesten Grunds„tzen... Vom
Verfasser des "Kleinen Stallmeisters" etc.
Comments: "The art of horseshoeing according to the latest principles...
by the author of the 'Little Stall Masters' etc."


Year Published: 1860
Author: Jensen, M.
Title: Ledetraad ved Undervisningen i Beslagkunsten
Comments: Instruction in the art of farriery


Year Published: 1860
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: Every Man His Own Farrier, containing ten minutes advice how to buy
a horse[running title: The New Pocket Farrier]
Comments: Little on the horse's foot, but he says: "Dealers... never fail
to rasp round their hoofs, in order to make them smooth; and to conceal
the rasping... they black the hoofs all over...." He wisely suggests not
buying such horses.


Year Published: 1860
Author: Jennings, Robert
Title: The Horse and his Diseases: Embracing His History and Varieties,
Breeding and Management...etc. by Robert Jennings, V.S. Professor of
Pathology and Operative Surgery in the Veterinary College of
Philadelphia,etc.
Comments: Smithcors says Jennings started the first veterinary school in
the U.S. in 1852, but didn't get any students until 1859, when he got 2:
"Jacob Dilts, of Lambertsville, NJ, a graduate of the Boston Veterinary
Institute, and W. Wisdom, of Wilmington, DE, who had been practicing
Veterinary Medicine and Surgery for nearly thirty years.... ...the course
of lectures had scarcely begun when... [2 professors] tendered their
resignation..."about 15 pages on hoof diseases and about 20 pages on
shoeing, which closely follow Bracy Clark's ideas: the nails are the
problem as they restrict "expansion"; and the sole must be trimmed enough
to render it flexible and yielding to the weight of the horse. Jennings
passes along these mistakes without thought.


Year Published: 1861
Author: Miles, William
Title: Petit Trait‚ de la Ferrure du Cheval, par William Miles 2e Edit.
Traduite de l'Anglais par Guyton
Comments: French translation of "A Plain Treatise..."


Year Published: 1861
Author: Dyer, R. H.
Title: A Few Plain Words about Horses
Comments: Smiths says it contains "hints on hygiene, feeding, shoeing, and
examination of horses as to soundness."


Year Published: 1861
Author: Defays, Fran‡ois Joseph
Title: Les Ferrures pathologiques, ou application raisonn‚e de la ferrure
au traitement des affections du pied et des membres
Comments: "Pathological shoeing, or the application of reason to the
shoeing and treatment of diseases of the feet and legs"Dollar, 1898,
page 328 says: "DeFay's hoof cement was the first material introduced for
the treatment of cracks, etc. in the wall. It consists of purified
gutta-percha [2 parts] and gum ammoniacum [1 part]. ...It can readily be
softened and moulded, is insoluable in water, and adheres very firmly to
the hoof."


Year Published: 1861
Author: Gamgee, John
Title: General Descriptive Anatomy of the Domestic Animals / John Gamgee
& James Law
Comments: Smith says: "The first volume dealt with osteology and the
second with the muscular system. One notable feature of this work is the
excellence of the drawings, and above all of the frontispiece, the
skeleton of 'Eclipse.' No effort has been spared to make this drawing
anatomically correct, and I believe it to be the best drawing of a
[horse's] skeleton in existence."


Year Published: 1861
Author: Leisering, August Gottlob Theodor
Title: Der Fuss des Pferdes in Rcksicht auf Bau, Verrichtungen und
Hufbeschlage. Gemeinfasslich in Wort und Bild dargestellt / A. G. T.
Leisering & H. M. Hartmann
Comments: "The Foot of the Horse in regards to structure, function, and
shoeing." Most of Dollar's Handbook of Horse-Shoeing (1898) is from "Der
Fuss des Pferdes", and apparently that is the first opportunity most
English speaking farriers had to make use of the information--37 years
after it was first published!!!Dollar seems to purposely obscure other
resources (see notes also under Sainz y Rozas, and Gamgee).Leisering wrote
on anatomy and physiology, Hartmann on the shoeing.


Year Published: 1861
Author: Mayhew, Edward
Title: The Illustrated Horse Doctor: being an accurate and detailed
account of the various diseases to which the equine race are subjected...
illustrated with more than 400 pictorial representations
Comments: Pady says: "Addressing two opposite groups of readers who view
veterinary facts as singular remedies [only for qualified practitioners]
on the one hand, and as an integrated philosophy for efficient horse care
on the other, the author makes an emotional appeal for diagnostic
hospitals. Mayhew felt that humanity toward animals should be more
commonly practiced."


Year Published: 1861
Author: Denny, J. T.
Title: Horses and Roads: or How to Keep a Horse Sound on His Legs.by
Free-Lance [pseud.] being a series of papers reprinted from "The Farm
Journal"
Comments: Pady says: "Because large numbers of horses were worn out in the
feet and legs at a premature age... these papers were published to affirm
the old saying, 'No Foot, no horse'."


Year Published: 1861
Author: Fitzwygram, Frederick Wellington John
Title: Notes on Shoeing Horses
Comments: He recommended a shoe with an outer rim, rocker toe, and 5 nail
holes.


Year Published: 1861
Author: Gross, Johann Christoph.
Title: Lehr- und Handbuch der Hufbeschlagskunst, 3rd ed.
Comments: Fleming notes that he describes 3 types of shoes being found in
excavations, belonging to earlier periods: the most numerous being like
what Sparkes, 1976 (q.v.) terms the "Guildhall" pattern--a wide web at the
toe, an arch to the inside edge, tapering to the heels, and fullered; the
2nd most numerous resembling Spanish shoes, but with caulks; and the least
numerous, what Sparkes terms the "wavy rim" type. The 4th edition has 4
pages of bibliography in chronological order. See also Gross, 1842.


Year Published: 1862
Author: Haas von Bilgen, Fra.
Title: Gedanken ber den Huf und dessen Beschl„ge.
Comments: "Thoughts on the Hoof and it's Shoeing."


Year Published: 1862
Author: Ravitsch, M.
Title: šber den feineren Bau und das Wachsthum des hufhorns
Comments: "On the finer construction and growth of hoof horn"


Year Published: 1862
Author: Merche,
Title: M‚moire sur les Principaux SystŠmes de Ferrure
Comments: "Notes on the Principle Systems of Horseshoeing"Fleming notes
that in this book is mentioned a similar experiment to Turner's "one sided
nailing"--Algerians having tried it by nailing only to the inside of hind
feet, without success.


Year Published: 1862
Author: Miles, William
Title: Le Pied du Cheval et la maniŠre de la conserver sain, par William
Miles. Traduite de l'Anglais par Guyton
Comments: The Horse's Foot and How to Keep it Sound translated into
French. It is interesting that Huth lists the author as William J. Miles,
so he must have thought they were the same person. However, Smith
correctly lists them as two different authors. William Miles was from
Exeter, and not a veterinarian--William J. Miles was a veterinarian, and
since Henry Downes Miles (q.v.) edited and published some of his work, may
have already died.


Year Published: 1862
Author: Varenkamp, Fri.
Title: Der Huf des Pferdes oder die Behandlung des Hufes in der Schmiede.
2te Aufl.
Comments: "The Hoof of Horses or the Handling of the Hoofs in the Smithy."


Year Published: 1862
Author: Nolan, Lewis Edward
Title: Nolan's System for Training Cavalry Horses by Kennner Garrard
Comments: There are 18 pages on shoeing, derived from William Miles.


Year Published: 1862
Author: France, MinistŠre de la guerre
Title: Instructions sur le travail individuel dans la cavalerie, le tir du
fusil et du pistolet. Trait‚ sur la ferrure
Comments: "Instructions on individual work in the cavalry, the firing of
rifles and pistols. Treatise on shoeing."


Year Published: 1862
Author: Hekmeyer, F. C.
Title: Beschrijving van de verschillende wijzen van winterbeslag bij het
paard of van het zoogen. op scherpzetten. 2e dr.
Comments: "Describing the different ways of winter shoeing..." See also
Hekmeijer, 1841.


Year Published: 1863
Author: Elluin, J. B. S.
Title: Trait‚ de mar‚chalerie par le mouveau systŠme de ferrure en
caoutchouc durci, et les accessoires p‚dicuraux
Comments: "Treatise on farriery by the the new system of shoeing with hard
India-rubber..."


Year Published: 1863
Author: Dadd, George H.
Title: A Practical Treatise on the Most Obvious Diseases Peculiar to
Horses, Together With Directions for Their Most Rational Treatment;
Containing Also, Some Valuable Information on the Art of Shoeing Horses
Comments:


Year Published: 1863
Author: Gueudeville, Captain
Title: Trait‚ de la Ferrure des Chevaux, ou Moyens d'Eviter le
Resserrement et Autres Alt‚rations du Pied, … l'Usage des leveurs et de
Toute Personne s'Occupant de Chevaux. par le Capitaine Gueudeville
Comments: "Treatise on Horseshoeing"


Year Published: 1863
Author: Guyton, Marie
Title: Expos‚ analytique de la ferrure de Miles
Comments:


Year Published: 1863
Author: AlasoniŠre, L.
Title: Nouvelle m‚thode de ferrer les chevaux pour pr‚venir l'encastelure
et les autres maladies de leurs pieds en ajoutant au fer ordinaire le
frog-stay (arrˆte-fourchette).
Comments: Pictured is a thin metal bar which was to be riveted to the hoof
side of each heel of the shoe.


Year Published: 1863
Author: Einsiedel, Curt Heinrich Ernst, Graf von
Title: Gedankenzettel zu Ausbung des englischen Huf-Beschlages in
Verbindung mit fnf Steindruck-Tafeln. 3te. revidirte Aufl.
Comments: "Notes for the english Horseshoes in connection with 5 stone
tablets" Einsiedel had a slipper type shoe like La Broue, but with bar
clips.


Year Published: 1863
Author: Miles, Henry Downes
Title: Miles' Modern Practical Farrier, containing a complete system of
the Veterinary Art, etc.
Comments: Huth lists this as having to do with the foot and shoeing. The
British Museum catalog lists a great many books by Henry Downes Miles, but
the only other one to do with horses, "The Book of Field Sports & Library
of Veterinary Knowledge" (1860), notes that the veterinary part is written
by W. J. Miles [his brother?]--and, undoubtedly, this must also have been
largely from W. J. Miles.See also William J. Miles, 1868.


Year Published: 1863
Author: Delacroix, [mile ?]
Title: M‚moires de la Soci‚t‚ d'Emulation du Doubs
Comments: Fleming quotes from Delacroix's description of horseshoes found
while excavating 2 meters below 4th century debris at Besan‡on (many of
which have been saved in a museum there): "'The metal is extremely
ductile, like that of all antique horse-shoes, and very white. ...The
number of shoes collected has been one hundred.... ...their width varies
from 3 1/3 to 4 1/3 inches.'"
Fleming also notes (page 299) that Delacroix is among those experts who
thinkthat so-called "hipposandals" could never have been intended for, or
worn as hoof protection. Fleming (p. 324) quotes him: "There are in the
Archaeological Museum of Besan‡on hippo-sandals provided with long hooks
before and behind, and even on the sides. A horse furnished with such a
chaussure could not walk four steps without mutilating himself and
falling."


Year Published: 1864
Author: Rff, Gottlob Adolf
Title: Zur Geschichte der Hufbeschlagkunde. Ein Programm ausgegeben bei
Gelegenheit der Jahresprfung an der Kgl. Wrttembergischen land- und
forstwirthschaftlichen Academie Hohenheim, im August 1864.
Comments: "The History of Horseshoeing Knowledge" Cornell lists this
under horseshoeing bibliographies.


Year Published: 1864
Author: Rockwell, Andrew H.
Title: A new system of training horses; on a practical and improved basis
of control, including a treatise on shoeing. As practiced and taught by
A. H. Rockwell.
Comments:


Year Published: 1864
Author: Wilder, W. E.
Title: A new system of horse training, including a treatise on shoeing,
and 32 recipes for diseases.
Comments:


Year Published: 1864
Author: Ibn-al-Awam,
Title: The Book of Agriculture, 2 vols. - transl. by J. J. Clement-Mullet
Comments: The original was published in the 12th century.


Year Published: 1864
Author: Trautvetter, J. S.
Title: Das Pferd. Erfahrungen aus meinem Leben ber den Einkauf, die
Pflege, den Hufbeschlag, das Reiten das Pferdes und die Fahrkunst. Fr
alle Pferdefreunde in gereimten Versen... etc.
Comments: "The Horse. Experiences of my life on the purchase, care,
shoeing, riding and driving. For all horselovers, in verse...etc."


Year Published: 1864
Author: Mayhew, Edward
Title: Illustrated Horse Management. Containing Descriptive Remarks upon
Anatomy, Medicine, Shoeing, Teeth, Food, Vices, Stables;...
Comments:


Year Published: 1864
Author: M‚gnin, Jean Pierre
Title: M‚moire sur le crapaud du cheval, sa nature, et son traitement
Comments: "Notes on canker of the horse, its nature and treatment"
The dictionary definition of crapaud is "toad" however, Fleming(1869),
pg. 475, tranlates it as "canker." Interesting that the English word frog
is a corruption of the French fourchette, and that their word for canker
is also their word for toad.


Year Published: 1864
Author: Mayhew, Edward
Title: Illustrated Horse Management, containing descriptive remarks upon
Anatomy, Medicine, Shoeing, Teeth, Food, Vices, Stables; likewise a plain
account of the situation, nature, and value of different points... etc.
Comments: Smith notes that although Mayhew did not enter the veterinary
field until mid-life, he rapidly distinguished himself. Upon graduation
he was appointed Demonstrater of Anatomy, but a year later Spooner forced
him to resign. He advanced the profession with his studies of tendons,
and of the effects of age on the form of horses' teeth. He devised the
method of passing a stomach tube in the horse by way of the nostrils.


Year Published: 1865
Author: Walther, E. Th.
Title: Der Hufschmidt. Anleitung zum Selbstunterricht im Hufbeschlag
Comments: "The Horseshoer. Instructions on Self-taught Horseshoeing"


Year Published: 1865
Author: Clapp, S. R.
Title: A New System of Horse Training including a Treatise on Shoeing
Comments: See also Anonymous, 1865; and Wilder, 1864.


Year Published: 1865
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: A new system of horse training, including a treatise on shoeing.
Comments: Could this be the same as Clapp, 1865? Also see Wilder, 1864,
for a nearly identical title by the same publisher.


Year Published: 1865
Author: M‚gnin, Jean Pierre
Title: De l'Origine de la Ferrure du Cheval
Comments: "On the origin of horseshoeing"Fleming (page 338) quotes
M‚gnin: "We place the invention of horse-shoeing about the fifth or sixth
century before our era--that is, at the period when Druidism was most
flourishing ... The Druids, taught the structure of the horse's foot by
the numerous sacrifices they made of this animal, accustomed to the
manipulation of metals, and their intelligence continually cultivated by
study, weremarvelously disposed to be the inventors of shoeing by nails."


Year Published: 1865
Author: Brackett, Albert Gallatin
Title: History of the United States Cavalry, From the Formation of the
Federal Government to the 1st of June, 1863. To Which is Ammended a List
of All of the Cavalry Regiments, with the Names of Their Commanders...
etc.
Comments: According to an act of Congress 30th March, 1814 each dragoon
[cavalry] toop "was to consist of a captain, one 1st lieutenant, 1 cornet,
5 sergeants, 8 corporals, 1 ridingmaster, 1 master of the sword, 2
trumpeters, one farrier, one blacksmith, one saddler, & 96 pvt.." also
"When starting on a march each horse ought to have two shoes at least
fitted, so that the farrier will have nothing to do but nail them on in
case any are lost...."See also Farrier and Blacksmith in the Glossary.


Year Published: 1865
Author: Dyer,
Title: Few Observations on Shoeing
Comments: I don't know, but would guess this is the same Dyer (R.H.) with
the similarly titled book "A Few Plain Words About Horses" 1861. I was
not able to find confirmation of this book from any other source,
however,I found another Dyer: Alfred Stace Dyer, who wrote "Plain Words to
Young Men on an Avoided Subject", and it was published by the Dyer Bros.
in London, and sold at least 145,000!, but it was written later: 1880 or
so. The same Dyer also wrote "A Hero From the Forge: A Biographical
Sketch of Elihu Burritt" the 3rd edition of which was published in 1879.


Year Published: 1866
Author: Schmelz, P.
Title: Der Hufbeschlag des Pferdes. Fr Landwirthe und Hufschmiede
bearbeitet
Comments: "The shoeing of horses."


Year Published: 1866
Author: Lindqvist, C. A.
Title: Husdjersskotselns hufoudgrunder / C. A. Lindqvist & J. Arrhenius
Comments: "Principles of shoeing domestic animals"


Year Published: 1866
Author: Jennings, Robert
Title: Horse training made easy; being a new and practical system of
teach-
ing and educating the Horse. To which is appended an essay on shoeing;
also, the symptoms and treatment of the various diseases of the horse.
Comments: Jennings seems to have been a plagiarizer. While his earlier
book has a longer section on shoeing and follows B. Clark, this one is
only 10 pages long and is very similar to Rockwell, 1864!


Year Published: 1866
Author: Rogers, James Edwin Thorold
Title: Agriculture and Prices in England From the Year After the Oxford
Parliment, 1259, to the Commencement of the Continental War, 1793.
Compiled Entirely From Original and Contemporaneous Records by J. E.
Thorold Rogers
Comments: Fleming 1869, page 402 says: "Iron horse-shoes were at this
period, according to Mr. Rogers, sold by the hundred, and nails by the
thousand, as at present. In 1265, we find the former articles selling at
Dover 225 for 5s. 5 1/4d. per hundred, and nails at 1s. 3d. a thousand....
In the accounts and annals of farm and estates during the 13th and 14th
centuries, it is shown that the chief expenditure ...in the keep of horses
was ...shoeing."


Year Published: 1866
Author: Tyrell,
Title: Tyrell's Patent Hoof Expanding Horse Shoe for Contracted Feet and
Corns and All Diseases of the Foot; Patented ... 1864-1865 / Tyrell &
Ferren
Comments:


Year Published: 1866
Author: Westring, Gustav Frederik
Title: Om dyrlaegerne og beslagsmedene i London. Ved G. Westring...
Comments:


Year Published: 1866
Author: Benjamin, Henri
Title: Quelques Considerations sur la Mar‚chalerie Rationelle; Ferrure
Am‚lior‚e, Facilitant la Marche de Chevaux; et mise … la port‚e de tous
les ouvriers mar‚chaux par la simplicit‚ et sa facilit‚ d'application.
Comments: Fleming says: "M. Benjamin introduced a shoe which may be said
to be the same as that proposed by Sanfarouche [i.e. Sanfouche]... The
entire sole and frog were left in their natural condition, and the crust
only was diminished to its natural proportions." However, this booklet
appears to be concerned entirely with the Charlier shoe.NUC-PPULC; PU-V;


Year Published: 1866
Author: Peillard, Charles
Title: Le Fer lastique. Nouveau systŠme de ferrure. par Capitaine C.
Peillard
Comments: "The Elastic Shoe. New system of shoeing" The shoe was made in
2 pieces, joined at the toe like parts of a jig-saw puzzle, to allow for
some movement of the halves.Zundel says: "The half-shoe of...Peillard,
also possess but a doubtful utility. Practice has not confirmed the hopes
of their inventors. They are difficult to make, easily injured, and of
small solidity, and their advantages are wholly of the problematic order."


Year Published: 1866
Author: Wheeler Horse Shoe Co.,
Title: The Wheeler Horse Shoe. Corrugated wrought iron and its uses...
Comments: Seeing how valuable the contract to supply horseshoes to the
U.S. Army was, Wheeler Co. hoped to do just that. "We propose to present
a few considerations in favor of the adoption of a newly invented, or
rather a newly perfected, shoe for the cavalry and draft animals used in
the United States service..." They then go on to compare their grooved
and patterned bar iron with ready-made shoes -- they call themselves a
horse shoe company, but what they really sell is bar stock that can be
made into horseshoes. Apparently they fooled very few, as I have heard
nothing else of the company.


Year Published: 1867
Author: Ableitner, J. K.
Title: Kurz- und leichtfasslicher Unterricht ber den Hufbeschlag der
Pferdes.
Comments: "Short and easy lessons on Horseshoeing"


Year Published: 1867
Author: Renner, E.
Title: Das di„tetische Heilverfahren bei Pferden und der engl.
Hufbeschlag.
Comments: "The dietary treatment of Horses and the english horseshoeing"


Year Published: 1867
Author: Morin, Alphonse
Title: De la Ferrure du cheval. Examen pratique du mode de ferrure
inaugure par M. Charlier. Response … la critique de M. Leblanc
Comments: "On the Shoeing of Horses. Examination of the method of shoeing
begun by Mr. Charlier"


Year Published: 1867
Author: Duplessis, Ch. Alph.
Title: tude sur l'origine de la ferrure du cheval chez les Gaulois.
R‚sum‚ du m‚moire lu... … la soci‚t‚ arch‚ologique de Rennes. 1865-1866
Comments: "Study on the origin of horseshoeing by the Gauls. Resume of
the paper... at the archeological society of Rennes. 1865-1866"


Year Published: 1867
Author: Starke, C. C.
Title: Der Hufbeschlage. Mit Erfahrungen aus dem letzten Feldzuge
beschrieben.
Comments: "Horseshoeing. with Experiences of the last War described."


Year Published: 1867
Author: Strombeck, Frhr. von
Title: Auszug aus der Reit Instruktion fr Unteroffiziere und die 2.
Reitklasse. Nebst einer Anhang ber Stallpflege und Behandlung des Hufes.
Comments: "...With an appendix on Stall care and handling of hoofs."


Year Published: 1867
Author: M‚gnin, Jean Pierre
Title: La Mar‚chalerie Fran‡aise son histoire depuis son origine, jusqu'…
nos jours, ses principes et ses regles d‚duits de cette histoire
Comments: "French Farriery its history from its beginning until today"
Fleming says: "M‚gnin's [book] is remarkable for the great research and
ability displayed in investigating the history of Fench farriery.


Year Published: 1867
Author: Goodenough, R. A.
Title: The horse's foot: how to shoe it and what kind of shoe to use...
Comments: Fleming, page 604, remarks on the Goodenough system: "The most
absurd statements were, of course, circulated with regard to the merits of
this method. In quoting from the newspaper article, we have noticed some
of these pretentious claims, for which there was not the slightest
foundation in fact. It was advertised as the 'humane horse-shoe'; and
these advertisements asserted that it was 'the only horse-shoe which obeys
the laws of nature in its construction, and is shaped as nearly in
conformity with the natural foot as scientific knowledge and skilful
labour can produce!'" Also: "'The work of the farrier will, indeed, be so
much simplified that in large stables it will probably be desirable to
have a groom instructed (!)....'"


Year Published: 1868
Author: Erdt, W. E. A.
Title: Die rationelle Hufbeschlagslehre nach den Grunds„tzen der
Wissenschaft und Kunst
Comments: "Rational Horseshoeing according to the basics of Science and
Art"


Year Published: 1868
Author: Sanson, Andr‚
Title: La Mar‚chalerie, ou la Ferrure des animaux domestiques
Comments: "Farriery, or the Shoeing of domestic animals"


Year Published: 1868
Author: Unterberger, Aleksandr Semenovich
Title: ...Kurzer rckblick auf die geschichte des hufbeschlages und die
Charliersche methode.
Comments:


Year Published: 1868
Author: Miles, William J.
Title: Modern Practical Farriery: A Complete Guide to all that Relates to
the Horse...With...Illustrations and a Series of Anatomical Plates...by B.
Herring...Diseases and Management of Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs by J.I.
Lupton.
Comments: Smith (IV-55), briefly mentions a W. Miles who was a veterinary
student in London in 1836, and a friend of B. Clark. (SmithIV-55 &
III-147) I suppose this is that Miles, and not the same one who wrote "The
Horse's Foot..." who Smith says is not a veterinarian--Huth, however,
seems to think they are one and the same. The publisher may have been
trying to cash in on that confusion--see also Henry Downes Miles, 1863.


Year Published: 1868
Author: Charlier, P.
Title: Principes de la ferrure p‚riplantaire dite ferrure Charlier Bt‚e.
... appliqu‚e au cheval et au boeuf de travail
Comments: "Principles of periplantar shoeing called Charlier patented
shoeing ... applied to the work horse and oxen"Charlier shoes for oxen?
This I gotta see to believe! By taking away wall just outside the
junction of the wall and sole (to be replaced by the shoe) this type of
shoeing must have greatly weakened the foot and exposed it to harm.


Year Published: 1868
Author: Charlier, Henri
Title: Du Pied du Cheval, de sa Conservation Physiologique et de sa
R‚g‚n‚ration par la Ferrure P‚riplantaire, Dite Ferrure Charlier (ThŠse
inaug.)
Comments: There were several books written about the Charlier system of
shoeing--see also: Morin, 1867; Charlier, 1869; Pallin, 1872; Gillon,
1884; and South, 1889c. Zundel, 1883, recommends it for use in treating
navicular disease. Apparently the Charlier Shoe was not popular enough in
America to have any books written about it, but Holmstr”m mentions it as
the Chartier [sic] shoe. See also Charlier, 1869.Fleming, in a footnote
on page 594, notes: "For the original papers of M. Charlier, and the
numerous letters and discussions resulting from this system, see the
'Bulletin de la Soci‚t‚ Imp‚riale et Central de M‚d. V‚t‚rinaire', for
1865, 1866, and 1867. For reports of the experiments in Italy, see the
journal 'Il Medico V‚t‚rinario', for 1867."


Year Published: 1868
Author: Rff, Gottlob Adolf
Title: Manuscript, Als grundlage fr den unterricht in der
hufbeschlagkunde und fr nachtr„ge aus den vorlesungen von Professor Dr.
Rueff an der Landwithschaftlichen Academie Huhenheim
Comments:


Year Published: 1869
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: Normen fr den Hufbeschlag in der k.k. Armee
Comments: "Standards for horseshoeing in the army"


Year Published: 1869
Author: Goyau, Louis Pierre
Title: Ferrure du cheval. Organization, Maladies, HygiŠne du Pied. 88
Figures Intercalees dans le Texte
Comments: "Horseshoeing. Structure, diseases, and hygiene of the foot."
Fleming (1869), says of this book: "M. Goyau's little treatise is,
perhaps, the best practical work on shoeing that has appeared in France."


Year Published: 1869
Author: Haycock, William
Title: Horses, How They Ought to be Shod: Being a Plain and Practical
Treatise on the Principles and Practice of the Farrier's Art...etc.
Comments: Smith says: "There are 4 cardinal principles which Haycock says
should be enforced by Act of Parliment: 1) The shoe should be seated in
the manner illustrated and described; 2) The toe of the foot and toe of
the shoe should be curved in a manner to fit each other exactly; 3) The
frog of the foot should not when healthy be pared, but only the
exfoliating parts of the sole; 4) The sole of the foot should not be
rasped."


Year Published: 1869
Author: Cottam, Edward
Title: No Frog, No Foot: Observations on the "Goodenough" System of
Shoeing Horses With Sound or Defective Feet
Comments: I wonder if he is related to the Richmond, VA publisher Peter
Cottam, (see Mason, 1820)?Fleming (1869, p. 599) notes from a newspaper
article on the Goodenough, 1868, that "As a guide to the use of the rasp,
the surface of the shoe is ruddled, so that any portion of horn not
touched by it is left uncolored."--to give the advantages of the exact fit
of hot fitting without any "damage" from heat.


Year Published: 1869
Author: Charlier, Henri
Title: Advantages of the Charlier Shoe and Rules for Applying it
Comments: The Charlier shoe, introduced in 1865, was a square sectioned
metal shoe imbedded into the outer wall, in order to encourage contact of
the sole and frog with the ground. Dollar, 1898 (pg. 254), points out
that "As the shoe surrounds the foot like a ring... the shoe must totally
prevent expansion of the heels.... which is largely responsible for the
low, shooting action which horses thus shod soon acquire." Interestingly,
however, Dollar also says the shoe cures early contraction, and
forging. Fleming, on pages 575-88, quotes from Charlier's 10 August 1865
communication to the Soci‚t‚ Imp‚riale et Centrale de M‚decine
V‚t‚rinaire: "That which... makes my method of shoeing superior to all
the other known methods is, I repeat, the fact of the foot being
allowed... lateral elasticity, however trifiling...."


Year Published: 1869
Author: Haney, Jesse, & Co.
Title: Haney's Horse Shoer's Manual, A Practical Guide to Horse Shoeing in
its Different Varieties ...Derived from "Mills' Treatise on Horse
Shoeing". To which is added Youatt's Treatise on the Diseases of the
Horse's Foot.
Comments:


Year Published: 1869
Author: Westring, G. F.
Title: Beslaglaere
Comments: Farriery


Year Published: 1869
Author: Dick, William
Title: Occasional Papers on Veterinary Subjects, with a Memoir by R. O.
Pringle
Comments: William Dick was the son of a shoer, and after learning his
father's profession went to the London Veterinary College, and recieved
his diploma from Coleman, in 1817, after 3 months attendance. Upon
returning to Edinburgh he attempted to start a veterinary school, and in
1820 succeeded. I have not seen this book, but considering his beginings,
and his reputation for diagnosing lameness, I expect it contains some
pertinent information.Dick was the first editor of "The Veterinarian"
magazine, 1828 (q.v.). The National Union Catalog lists some interesting
reprints of articles by Dick: "On the Mechanism of the Limbs by Means of
which the horse is enabled to sleep standing" "On the accidental injuries
of the foot of the horse arising from shoeing..." and "On the disease of
the horse termed navicular"


Year Published: 1869
Author: Priam,
Title: Horse Shoeing and the Cause of Foot-Lameness
Comments: "No owner of a lame horse objects to paying the fees of a
veterinary surgeon for services which are calculated to make him sound
again; why should he not be willing to pay for having him shod properly,
so as to prevent disease? ...No...job is ever so cheap and economical in
the end as one that is thoroughly and correctly performed." (pg.12)


Year Published: 1869
Author: Fleming, George
Title: 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,
etc.
Comments: This is a fabulous book, with many astute observations i.e. "The
false doctrine of lateral expansion and sole descent propounded by Bracy
Clark and Professor Coleman, has had a most serious and pernicious
influence on farriery, not only in this country, but on the continent; and
has largely tended to the production and perpetuation of foot diseases
that are torturing to the animal, and baffling to the veterinary surgeon."
(pg.529)pages 649 and 650 mentions theimportance of lateral balance to
within fractions of an inch - credit Guyon with noting it --- the first
I've seen, other than in Goodwin's complaining about farriers wanting to
keep both sides the same... He makes a very convincing case against the
so-called "hipposandals."


Year Published: 1869
Author: Rockwell, Andrew H.
Title: Improved Practical System of Educating the Horse. by Rockwell and
Hurlburt, originators of the mode of driving without reins... Also a
Treatise on Shoeing... together with the rules of the Union Course
Comments: There are only about 12 pages on shoeing.


Year Published: 1869
Author: Prudden, Henry
Title: The Horse: A Treatise on the education and management of horses,
their diseases and remedies. To which is added a treatise on the
management of cattle and dogs. by Prof. H. Prudden
Comments: The Library of Congress notes that it is based on "Magner's New
System of Training Horses" 1863.


Year Published: 1870
Author: Hofling, G. V.
Title: Kort afh. om h„stens fot, Hofbeslaget f”r h„star o. oxar samt
sjuksdomarne hos husdjuren
Comments: "Short Treatise on the Horse's Foot, Shoeing for horses and oxen
with diseases domestic animals"


Year Published: 1870
Author: Brambilla, L.
Title: Ferrure du Cheval. Th‚ories sur les D‚fauts du Pied, Enseign‚es
par le Dr. L. Brambilla, traduites en Fran‡ais par le Dr. A. Lemoigne
Comments: "Shoeing the Horse."


Year Published: 1870
Author: Dominick, Fr.
Title: Theoretisch-practische Anleitung zur Ausbung den rationellen
Hufbeschlags
Comments: "Theoretical-practical instructions for Rational Horseshoeing"
see also Dominik, 1879--presumably the same author, possibly a later
edition of the same book.


Year Published: 1870
Author: Brambilla, L.
Title: Horse-Shoeing
Comments: Another one of Dollar's references that I have not been able to
confirm.


Year Published: 1870
Author: Forrest, Christopher
Title: Dewitt's Complete American Farrier and Horse Doctor: an American
Book for American Horsemen...
Comments: Both the Ontario Veterinary School, and Book-in-Print list this
under the subject heading of horseshoeing.


Year Published: 1870
Author: Wehrli, Hans Heinrich
Title: Aide-m‚moire … l'usage des officiers d'artillerie suisses. VIII.
chapitre. Connaissance du cheval. Entretien, ferrure et maladies des
chevaux. Par le colonel H. Wehrli et le major-v‚t‚rinaire d'‚tat-major
BiŠler
Comments: "Notes for the use of the Swiss artillery officers. 8th
Chapter. Knowledge of the Horse. Upkeep, shoeing, and diseases of
horses."


Year Published: 1870
Author: Stewart, Robert
Title: The American Farmer's Horse Book; Embracing in Addition to the
Subjects Usually Treated of in Similar Works; A Full Description... etc.
by Robert Stewart, M.D., V.S. Embodying the Results of 20 Years...
Practice
Comments: Fully 90% of the 16 or so pages on the foot and shoeing is
quoted from Youatt (q.v.) and therefore erroneous. He takes the
"necessary evil" theme to extremes: "Perhaps no greater curse has ever
been inflicted upon the horse than this of shoeing. ...Horses, if used at
all on our present roads, must be shod." (p.534) He does correctly
recommend turpentine to "heal and harden the hoof." (p.550)


Year Published: 1870
Author: Mussgnug, Christoph
Title: Neueste, dauerhafteste und billigste Beschlagsmethode fr den
gesunden und kranken Huf...
Comments: "Newest, most durable, and cheapest Shoeing method for healthy
and diseased Hoofs..."


Year Published: 1870
Author: M‚gnin, Jean Pierre
Title: Tableau de la Ferrure du Cheval, du Mulet, et du Boeuf
Comments: "Overview of Shoeing the Horse, Mule, and Ox"


Year Published: 1871
Author: Gamgee, Joseph Sampson
Title: A Treatise on Horse-shoeing and Lameness. by Joseph Gamgee,
veterinary surgeon, formerly lecturer on the principles and practice of
farriery in the New Veterinary College, Edinburgh; copiously illustrated
Comments: As the title might suggest, the book is divided into two parts,
Part I is on Shoeing, and Part II is on Lameness--both parts are
excellent. There is also an excellent history of farriery especially in
relation to the veterinary schools. The entire book is worth quoting:
"Nothing impairs hoofs more than, or deprives them of their strength and
elasticity so much as, wet...." He had actual experience shoeing horses,
and it shows.A comparison of different types and styles of nails and holes
- pg 96; a real statistical comparison of the numbers of lame horses in GB
and France pg 182-197--he says that there are many more lame horses in GB
than France--due to shoeing; he has a couple pages about Bourgelat pp17;
much good history concerning vet schools and farriers pp20;ONE OF
THE BEST BOOKS


Year Published: 1871
Author: Kiernan, John
Title: Hints on Horseshoeing: Being an Exposition of the Dunbar System,
Taught to the Farriers of the United States Army, Under the Authority of
the Joint Resolution of Congress...1866Prepared by John Kiernan...
Comments: A Training School for Farriers and Blacksmiths was started at
Ft. Riley, KS in 1903 with veterinary surgeon John Kiernan appointed to
instruct in horseshoeing. Grimshaw, page 36 lists the same (short) title
by a Kienman in 1781--I assume she misspelled the name, and transposed the
numbers in the date of publication. The cover and title page list John
Kiernan as "Chief Farrier of the Cavalry Depot, Carlisle, PA."He later
became a veterinarian? It shows and describes clinching tongs, this is
the earliest I have seen them. He insists on 2 very detrimental
practices: "The sides of the frog should never be cut...." and "The bars
should be cut away entirely...."!The second edition, 1894, with the
help of his son Dr. P. F. Kiernan, is greatly enlarged (126p.).


Year Published: 1871
Author: Pratt, O. S.
Title: The horse educator: introducing a new and practical system of
educating horses and breaking up vicious habits: containing many valuable
recipes...also, remarks on shoeing and the rules of the Union Course.. 7th
ed.
Comments:


Year Published: 1871
Author: Dunbar, Alexander
Title: Treatise on the Diseases Incident to the Horse, Especially those of
the Foot;... by Alexander Dunbar originator of the celebrated "Dunbar
System" for the prevention and cure of contraction.
Comments: In this self-promotional book Dunbar boasts of the $25,000 the
U.S. government paid him for one year of instructing the army farriers,
and he gives no details of his "system" saying that if it were easily
explainable in words then it would be easy enough for someone to learn it
just by observing--so I wonder how he managed to teach? The book
primarily contains his correspondence with his contemporaries--Bonner,
Gamgee, L. Jewett, etc.


Year Published: 1871
Author: McClure, Robert, ed.
Title: Every horse owner's cyclopedia. The anatomy and physiology of the
horse...shoeing, etc., by J. H. Walsh. The American trotting horse...by
Ellwood Harvey. The turf and trotting horse... The Percheron...etc.
Comments:


Year Published: 1872
Author: Einsiedel, Curt Heinrich Ernst, Graf von
Title: Noch ein Wort, weil es Noth thut, zum Hufbeschlage.
Comments: "Another word because it is necessary, on Horseshoeing"


Year Published: 1872
Author: Raevski, A.
Title: O stroenii i rostie kopit domashnich jivotnich.
Comments: "Structure and development of the hoof of domestic animals."


Year Published: 1872
Author: Fleming, George
Title: Practical Horse-shoeing
Comments: The preface notes that this book was the winner of a competition
held by the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for
"the best and most practical essays on Horseshoeing..." It also notes
that over 40 essays were sent in, with universal "condemnation of the
common but unscientific and irrational practice of paring away the
sole and frog as a necessary preparation for shoeing." Also has
historical facts of the period.


Year Published: 1872
Author: Hinze, J. J.
Title: Het hoefbeslag. Leer- en handboek voor het beslag, zoowel van
gezonde als gebrekkige en zieke hoeven.
Comments: "Horseshoeing. Handbook for shoeing, healthy, lame, and
diseased hoofs."


Year Published: 1872
Author: Pallin, William Alfred
Title: The Charlier Horse Shoe: Its Advantages, Disadvantages and Use,
with Illustrations. by William Pallin
Comments: The Charlier shoe seems to have had a lot of support for over 25
years, despite the obvious difficulty and expense of applying them. To my
mind, it seems an obviously flawed system, and one has to wonder how they
could be sold to people as "not interfering with expansion"--it seems
there must have been some value to them, and I wonder if it was not simply
the fact that they did prevent flexion of the wall at the ground
surface.NUC-DNW,


Year Published: 1872
Author: Fleming, George
Title: Practical Horseshoeing, with twenty-nine illustrations [American
edition]
Comments: A good guide for the owner. Fleming says: "It must be pointed
out that giving the angle of 45 degrees, as is done in almost every
treatise on shoeing and the anatomy of the foot is a grave error. Looked
at in profile, a hoof with this degree... would at once be pronounced a
deformity... and if the farrier were to attempt to bring every foot he
shod to this standard, he would inflict serious injury, not only to the
foot... but also the tendons.."against caulks, pg. 66; mentions making an
instrument to measure the degree of slope of the hoof -p 44;


Year Published: 1873
Author: Smith, Charles
Title: A new treatise on the diseases and lameness of the horse, and how
to cure them. Also, the proper method of shoeing horses, and a complete
list of veterinary medicines. by Charles Smith, v.s.
Comments:


Year Published: 1873
Author: Fleming, George
Title: Report of Westley Richard's Method of Shoeing Horses
Comments:


Year Published: 1873
Author: Degive, Alphonse
Title: Manuel de Mar‚chalerie.
Comments: Thary, 1896, says Degive was director of the veterinary school
in Cureghem.


Year Published: 1873
Author: Murray, William Henry Harrison
Title: The Perfect Horse: How to know him, how to breed him, how to train
him, how to shoe him, how to drive him. w/ Introduction by Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher; and a Treatise on Agriculture and the Horse by Hon. George
B. Loring
Comments: Pady says: "Profitable opinions about horses which were gathered
and condensed from veterinary literature, medieval treatises, and many
pamphlets on the subject. Of specific interest, it contains instructions
on how to lay out a mile-long race track--the principles of which are
still used one hundred years afterwards."


Year Published: 1873
Author: Douglas, William
Title: Horse-Shoeing as it is and as it should be...
Comments: Yale lists the author as a private in the 10th Hussars, though I
suspect this is the same Douglas that Wood, 1885, mentions as a Lt. W.
Douglas who did calculations on the labor a horse does just in wearing
shoes of different weights -- while the amount is shocking, you would be
just as shocked by the same calculations of the effect of your shoes, or
wrist-watch, etc.Morris, in the Anvil Feb 1989, page 28, says: "William
Douglas, a veterinary surgeon and a member of the 10th Hussar of the
British Army in 1873 suggested and argued for the use of machine-made
horseshoes for use in the British cavalry. It was Douglas's opinion that
this would save half the number of farriers and provide better shoes for
the horses."


Year Published: 1873
Author: Bendz, O. Pehrsson
Title: Hofbeslagsl„ra
Comments: "Horseshoeing Text" Thary, 1896, in his preface notes that Dr.
Bendz was director of the shoeing school at d'Alnarp.


Year Published: 1873
Author: Stevens, Henry R.
Title: Some Practical Remarks on Shoeing; and the advantages of the patent
Charlier shoe advocated, with rules for its application by Henry R.
Stevens
Comments: The title page continues: "The patent Charlier shoe has obtained
a first prize at the Universal Exhibition, 1867, and a gold medal at the
Imperial and Central Society of Agriculture." For some odd reason, the
Charlier shoe was very highly regarded by veterinarians at this time--see
also Charlier.


Year Published: 1873
Author: Russell, John Edwards
Title: Rational Horse-Shoeing, by Wildair [pseud.]
Comments: Because the book is essentially an advertisement for the
Goodenough shoe, which he refers to as "our shoe", I assume that just as
the shoe is "good enough" the author decided I "will dare" to write a
book: "It is sold slightly higher than the clumsy pieces of bent iron
called horse-shoes by mere courtesy, and its lightness gives one-third
more shoes to the keg, while there is no expense of calking...."Russell
was on the U.S. Deep Waterways Commission--which explains his references
to the Nile river in the book. Who manufactured the "Goodenough Shoe" and
was John Edwards Russell a brother of William Russell? A hand-pasted-in
prefixexplains: "Since the publication...we have made changes in
our horse shoe to adapt it to Army use. ...any Army farrier can apply...
cold...


Year Published: 1874
Author: Magner, Dennis
Title: The New System of Educating Horses: including Instructions on
Feeding, Watering, Stabling, Shoeing, etc. with Treatment for diseases.
Illustrated. Including many valuable recipes not before published. 10th
ed.
Comments:


Year Published: 1875
Author: Goodenough Horseshoe Co.,
Title: Testimonials [on the Goodenough horseshoe]
Comments:


Year Published: 1876
Author: Rff, A.
Title: Die Beschlagkunde.
Comments: "The Art of Shoeing."


Year Published: 1876
Author: B‚zard, L.
Title: De la fourbure aigu‰.
Comments: "On Acute Founder"


Year Published: 1876
Author: Mayhew, Edward
Title: Illustrated Horse Management; containing descriptive remarks upon
Anatomy; Medicine; Shoeing; Teeth; Food; Vices; Stables; likewise a plain
account of The Situation, Nature, and Value of the Various Points; etc.
Comments: This edition, revised and edited by Lupton, has 14 pages added
by Lupton in defense of his 1858 letter to the Veterinary College stating
that the horse's hoof naturally landed heel first, not toe first as they
had been teaching. Apparently after nearly 20 years the truth of his
assertion had not yet been accepted--due in part to the adoption of
Coleman's shoeing methods causing many horses to have navicular disease,
and to land toe first.About 50 pages on shoeing.


Year Published: 1876
Author: Heard, John M.
Title: Horse Shoeing, Past and Present; Being a Concise History of the Art
from its Commencement to the Present Time, with instructions on the best
methods now in use in this country and in Europe by John M. Heard, V.S.
Comments: "Now we arrive at a period when grave errors began to crop in,
and it all came from the fact of placing a young surgeon at the head of
the Veterinary College in London. Coleman imagined he had made a great
discovery, and gave out to the world that the heels expanded each time the
foot came to the ground." (pg. 16) "By far the best method of shoeing
that I have seen is Mr. Fleming's...." (pg. 23)


Year Published: 1876
Author: Pratt, O. S.
Title: The Horse's Friend. The Only Practical Method of Educating the
Horse and Eradicating Vicious Habits, followed by a variety of valuable
recipes, instructions in farriery, horse-shoeing, the latest rules of
trotting... etc.
Comments: Robin Bledsoe notes that it includes the "'Dunbar System of
Horseshoeing and Treatment of the Horse's Foot' as taught to the U.S. Army
farriers by Dunbar."


Year Published: 1876
Author: Bassi, Roberto
Title: Dodici Conferenze sopra l'Arte di Ferrare i Cavalli... Con un
appendice sulla ferratura degli altri solipedi domestici e degli anim-ali
bovini, e con 54 figure illustrative del testo. ...etc.
Comments:


Year Published: 1876
Author: Brcher, P. R.
Title: Grundzge der Mechanik des Hufes und einer darauf gesttzten
naturgem„ssen Di„tetik desselben.
Comments: "Basic mechanics of the hoof and a natural diet based thereupon"


Year Published: 1876
Author: Coleman, Joseph Brine
Title: Pathological Horse-Shoeing: a theory and practice of the shoeing of
horses. By which every disease affecting the foot of the horse may be
absolutely cured or ameliorated and defective action...corrected...etc.
Comments: Robin Bledsoe says J. B. Coleman was a British veterinary
surgeon who moved to Chicago, where he practiced, and taught shoeing.
Coleman argues that the fibres of the wall grow from the coronary band,
but that the intertubular horn grows from the vascular laminae. "The
vascular laminae have not a merely mechanical connection with the
non-vascular horny laminae -- but a secreting function, and it is from
this source that the homogenous ornon-fibrous portion of the wall is
derived. If an experimental proof of this is demanded.... ...in False
Quarter [where the wall has been torn away]... we have but a thin
non-fibrous horny secretion... which could come from no other source than
the vascular laminae." (pg. 40)


Year Published: 1877
Author: Hayes, Matthew Horace
Title: Veterinary Notes for Horse Owners; A Manual of Horse Medicine and
Surgery, Written in Popular Language
Comments: This has proved to be an exceptionally long-lived book, and a
generally excellent source of information for the horse owner. See also
Tutt, 1968, and Hayes, 1987.


Year Published: 1877
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: Der rechte Vorderfuss im Naturzustande vor dem Beschlage und dessen
stufenweise Ver„nderung durch fehlerhaften Beschlag.
Comments: "The right front foot in the natural condition before shoeing,
and its gradual change through wrong shoeing"


Year Published: 1877
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: M‚thode Goodenough. Ferrage des chevaux.
Comments: "Goodenough method. Shoeing horses."


Year Published: 1877
Author: Spohr, Peter Harmuth
Title: Die Bein- und Hufleiden der Pferde, ihre Entstehung, Verhtung und
arzneilose Heilung, nebst einem Anhange ber Arzneilose Heilung von
Druckschaden Wunden...Sechste Neu Durchgesehene, Vermehrte...Auflage...
Comments: "The Leg and Hoof sufferings of Horses, their Cause, Prevention
and non-medical Treatment...."


Year Published: 1877
Author: Hardy, H.
Title: Boiteries Chroniques du Cheval Trait‚es par la Neurotomie, par H.
Hardy et J. Hugues
Comments: "Chronic Lamenesses of the Horse Treated by Neurectomy"


Year Published: 1878
Author: L”nnecker, F. L. W.
Title: šber die Pferdezucht im Grossherzogthum Oldenburg, nach von
1824-77, angestellten Beobachtungen. ...šber den Vorfall der Harnblase bei
Pferden. šber den Bau des Hufes und den Beschlag desselben... etc.
Comments: "On Horsebreeding in Grossherzogthum Oldenburg... On the
Structure of Hoofs and their shoeing...."


Year Published: 1878
Author: Forrest, C.
Title: American Farrier and Horse Doctor. Notes from the Best Authors.
Comments:


Year Published: 1878
Author: Forrest, C.
Title: American Farrier and Horse Doctor. Notes from the Best Authors.
Comments:


Year Published: 1878
Author: Hardy, Edmund Armitage
Title: Our Horses; Being anecdotes from Personal Experience of Individual
Horses, with brief practical hints on Breeding, Buying and Selling,
Breaking, Shoeing, Doctoring, etc. / Col. Edmund Armitage Hardy
Comments:


Year Published: 1878
Author: Billings, John D.
Title: John D. Billings' Patent Machine Rolled Horse Shoe, with Continuous
Calk. Patented 1877
Comments: Billings' shoe was made from "L" shaped angle iron -- thus
forming a shoe with a very high continuous outer rim (or continuous calk
as he called it). Among other things, he claimed that they were easier to
shape than a regular shoe -- promises, promises.


Year Published: 1878
Author: U.S.,
Title: Proceedings and Report of a Board of Officers Appointed by Par. 9,
S.O. no. 71, Hd. Qrs. of the Army, A.G.O., April 5, 1878, to Examine and
Report upon certain Patterns of Horse and Mule Shoes
Comments: On two separate occasions I tried to get a look at this, but it
was "not on the shelf" both times.


Year Published: 1879
Author: M‚gnin, Jean Pierre
Title: HygiŠne du cheval: Ferrure: Extrait de l'Acclimatation
Comments:


Year Published: 1879
Author: Collella, Eligio
Title: Cenni sull'industria del piede equino, ossia ferri da cavallo in
rapporto ai principii della scienze, della pratica e dell' economia, con
testie note del prof. Brambilla
Comments:


Year Published: 1879
Author: Mller, M.
Title: Hufbeschlag. Sachliche Zusammenstellung der bis zum 1 Jan. 1879 in
dieser Klasse ertheilten Patente.
Comments: "Horseshoeing. A Comprehensive list of all Patents issued in
this class up to 1 Jan. 1879."


Year Published: 1879
Author: Mohr, Wilhelm
Title: Leitfaden des practishen Hufbeschlags
Comments: "Guide to Practical Horseshoeing"


Year Published: 1879
Author: Fogliata, Giacinto
Title: Come avviene lo spostamento dell'asse trangolose nella
podoflemmatite cronica del cavallo e relativa proposta di cura:lettera
al prof. L. Lombardini
Comments:


Year Published: 1879
Author: Cole, J. R.
Title: A Book for Every Horse Owner: The Horse's Foot and How to Shoe it.
Giving the most approved methods of horse-shoeing, together with the
anatomy of the horse's foot and its diseases. by J. R. Cole. With 42
illustrations
Comments:


Year Published: 1879
Author: Peters, F. [Anton Heinrich Fritz ?]
Title: Mechanische Untersuchungen an den Gelenken und dem Hufe des Pferdes
Comments: "Mechanical Examinations of the Joints and the Hoofs of the
Horse"


Year Published: 1879
Author: Kendall, Burney James
Title: A Treatise on The Horse and His Diseases; containing an "index of
diseases," which gives the symptoms, cause, and the best treatment of
each; a table giving all the principal drugs... and much other valuable
information
Comments: There is not really any shoeing advice given, and very little on
navicular and founder. Dr. Kendall manufactured a "Spavin Cure" among
others, and this booklet helped to promote and establish his name.


Year Published: 1879
Author: Dominik, Fr.
Title: Der Rationelle Hufbeschlag, von Fr. Dominik... 3. Verb. und Verm.
Aufl.
Comments: "Rational Horseshoeing"


Year Published: 1879
Author: Pitcher, B.
Title: The Horse. A book for the people. Containing the practical
experience in all its forms, of a horseman of thirty-seven years standing
... how to handle, shoe and take care of him... etc.
Comments: From the 5th edition: "I claim that there are no naturally
interfering horses or colts." (pg.73)"Take the frog as a guide--it is
the center of the foot--and keep it as such." (pg.74)"I advise them
[owners] to pay the blacksmith a living price, so he can afford to
employ 'good help'...." (pg.80)"National Steel Shoes--made by National
Horseshoe Co. of Chicago are good and cheaper than an iron shoe."


Year Published: 1879
Author: Born, Louis
Title: Handbuch der Pferdekunde. Fr Offiziere und Landwirthe / L. Born
& H. M”ller
Comments: "Handbook for Horsemen. For Officers and Breeders." Pady says
the 1928 edition contains an excellent section on horseshoeing. See also
other works by M”ller.


Year Published: 1879
Author: Russell, William
Title: Russell on Scientific Horseshoeing for the Different Diseases of
the Foot. with illustrations. by William Russell, Practical Horseshoer
Comments: Bowler, in the introduction states that Russell "has been
steadily engaged in the manufacture of horseshoes for upward of 40
years...", which is not the same as a "Practical Horseshoer". He has odd
priorities: "The first object of attention is to bring the foot to a
perfectly level bearing. If this is properly managed, the secret of
success in farriery is resolved...." If only it could be that simple.He
doesn't mention nippers -- in fact, I don't think that nippers have been
mentioned in any book yet, though they have already been invented. It was
written for owners, not for shoers -- and not from a horseshoer's point of
view. There is a discussion about licensing and legal responsibility at
the end of the book.


Year Published: 1879
Author: Bryden, William
Title: Introduction to that new, reparative and cultural method. Relating
to equine locomotion, which constitutes the Pedospedistic system. As
practiced and taught by William Bryden, Pedospedist... etc.
Comments: The title page continues: "In this system, our eminent control
of the forces which modify the forms and functional characters of motive
structures, is fully illustrated: and the susceptibilities of the horse's
hoof are recognized as the chief source of his motive derangements. And
the turning point in all future achievements of speedier, easier and
stabler going. It's special scope is, therefore, the management, shoeing
and hygieneof the foot..." he describes the origins of this "new
profession": "This deplorable inadequacy of veterinary art, in the
special department of locomotive management, gave rise to the new
profession of the Pedospedist, a specialist.... His art is reparative and
conservatory. His object is the disembar- rassment of function." In 1888
there was a Bryden Horse Shoe Co. "Boss"


Year Published: 1880
Author: Decroix, E.
Title: tudes sur la ferrure … glace.
Comments: "Studies of ice shoes"


Year Published: 1880
Author: McTaggart, D.
Title: Clater's Every Man his own Farrier
Comments:


Year Published: 1880
Author: Kendall, Burney James
Title: Trait‚ sur le cheval et ses maladies illustr‚: contenant un "Index
es maladies" ... / Ed. fran‡aise
Comments: See notes under the 1879 edition.


Year Published: 1880
Author: Lungwitz, Frederick Clement Anton
Title: Die Verwendung des Gummi im Hufbeschlage.
Comments: "The use of rubber in horseshoeing."


Year Published: 1880
Author: Caviglia, G. B.
Title: Sulla origine del ferro da cavallo.
Comments: "On the origin of the horse shoe"


Year Published: 1880
Author: Behrens, Heinrich
Title: Englischen Hufbeschlag. Praktische Anleitung fr Hufschmiede und
Pferdebesitzer
Comments: "English Horseshoeing. Practical Instructions for Horseshoers
and Horseowners"


Year Published: 1881
Author: Delp‚rier, J. B. L‚on
Title: Monographie sur les ferrures … glace.
Comments: "Monograph on ice shoes."


Year Published: 1881
Author: Pitcher, B.
Title: Das Pferd. Ein buch fr das volk, enthaltend: Die praktischen
erfahrungen nach jeder richtung hin, die ein hufschmied in
siebenunddreissigj„hriger th„tigkeit gesammelt... etc. 3rd ed.
Comments: This book has 28 pages on shoeing. Clinchers are shown.


Year Published: 1881
Author: Bruyn, A. J. de
Title: Gids voor hoefsmeden. Eene handleiding tot het doelmatig beslaan
van paarden...
Comments: "Guide for horseshoers. A handbook for the practical shoeing of
horses..."


Year Published: 1881
Author: Cavanagh, Isaac A.
Title: The Horse Shoer's Companion and guide for the management and cure
of horses' feet, with instructions on diseases of the feet, ways of
handling while being shod... etc.
Comments: "Since the year 481, at which time it is said [by whom?] that
iron horse shoes were first made... We have had shoes made of india
rubber, felt, wood, copper, steel, etc., etc., but, as yet, we have to
fall back on the old common iron, which through centuries of use have been
proven beyond a doubt to be the best material as yet known to shoe horses
with. ...You may learn as much as you like from books, however
theoretically excellent,still you must have that peculiarly practical
knowledge that can note the variations in the growth and formation of feet
so as to be able to make any required change in the design of the shoe
that may be needful." (pg. 7) "The greater number of the shoes now used
are made by machinery, and are as good, and I belive even better than
those made by hand." (pg. 9)


Year Published: 1882
Author: Fogliata, Giacinto
Title: Manuale di Ippo Podologia
Comments: "Manual of Hoof Diseases"NUC-DNLM


Year Published: 1882
Author: Aureggio, EugŠne
Title: Nouvelle ferrure … glace … chevilles mobiles dites … croissants...
Comments: "New ice shoeing for mobile ankles [?] called crescents..."


Year Published: 1882
Author: Goyau, Louis Pierre
Title: Trait‚ pratique de mar‚chalerie, Comprenant le Pied du Cheval, la
Mar‚chalerie ancienne et moderne, la ferrure rationnelle appliqu‚e aux
divers genres de services; la m‚decine et l'hygiŠne du pied.
Comments: "Treatise on the Practice of Farriery" Hunting refers to
"Mar‚chalerie" by Goyau--I assume it is this one.


Year Published: 1882
Author: Stillman, J. D. B.
Title: The Horse in Motion: As Shown by Instantaneous Photography with a
Study on Animal Mechanics Founded on Anatomy and the revelation of the
camera in which is demonstrated the theory of quadrupedal
locomotion...etc.
Comments: The title page continues: by J.D.B. Stillman, A.M., M.D.
Executed and published under the auspices of Leland Stanford. [see also
Muybridge, 1887] As I understand it, Leland Stanford bet Muybridge that
horses didn't ever have all 4 feet in the air during a gallop. He lost
the bet on June 15th, 1878.


Year Published: 1882
Author: Goubaux, Armand
Title: De l'Exterieur du Cheval[par Armand Goubaux & Gustave Barrier]
Comments: "The Exterior of the Horse"


Year Published: 1882
Author: Sample, H.
Title: The Horse and Dog. Not as They Are But as They Should Be... With
and Elaborate and Scientific Essay on Horse-Shoeing...
Comments: Robin Bledsoe notes "Sample was one of the popular 19th-century
horse tamers. This book treats management, diseases, telling the age by
teeth, teaching tricks, etc. 'A Valuable Essay on Horse-Shoeing' by
George Fleming appears on pp. 121-220; this is the same text
as...[Fleming, 1872]"


Year Published: 1882
Author: Doan, Gerard
Title: The Horse's Rescue, by Gerard Doan
Comments: "There is no business that tries a man's powers of endurance
equal to that of horse-shoeing, and no class of mechanics so poorly paid,
according to labor performed. ...The shoer is expected to do what is
impossible for him to do, and it is unjust to blame him or hold him
responsible for your horse in any way, for many reasons. In the first
place, he does not have your horse in his care, neither does he drive him.
He shoes him and he isgone, and the owner takes no care of his feet." (pg.
20-21)


Year Published: 1882
Author: Stillman, J. D. B.
Title: The Horse in Motion, as shown by Instantaneous Photography, with a
Study in Animal Mechanics, founded on Anatomy, and the Revelations of the
Camera, in which is demonstrated the theory of Quadrupedal Motion.
Comments:


Year Published: 1883
Author: Bleiweis, Johann
Title: Nauk, kako zdrava in bolna kopita podkovati in kopitne bolezni
ozdravljati
Comments:


Year Published: 1883
Author: Steglich,
Title: šber der Hufmechanismus des Pferdehufes
Comments: "On the Hoof Mechanism of Horse Hoofs" Another Dollar reference
that I have been unable to confirm. Dollar mentions his experiments
supporting hoof expansion due to frog pressure.


Year Published: 1883
Author: Page, Charles Edward
Title: Horses: Their Feed and Their Feet. A Manual of Horse Hygiene,
invaluable for the Veteran of the Novice... With Treatise and Notes on
Shoeing by Sir George Cox and Col. M. C. Weld. 2nd ed. rev. & enlarged
Comments: He mentions Lafosse, "Free-Lance", Miles, Mayhew, Douglas,
Charlier, Pembroke, B. Clark, and Xenophon. About 40 pages against the
use of shoes, and shoers--some bad: "Generally, when there is a boy in the
family who is too big a fool for anything else, his father makes a
blacksmith of him!" and some good: "[Xenophon and Pembroke agree] that
constant use of litter [bedding] in a stable makes the feet tender and
causes swelled legs."pg. 132 "roads... repaired (!) as they are with
flints, which have been broken just enough to make them cut like razors,
and are a cruelty to horses shod or unshod."and on pg. 119 - "At a
meeting of the Mass. Board of Agr. in 1878, Mr. Bowditch.. declared that
`nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of all the trouble in horses'
feet come from shoeing'."


Year Published: 1883
Author: Peters, [Anton Heinrich Fritz ?]
Title: Die Formver„nderungen der Einkwirkung der Last, etc.
Comments: "The Changes in Form with Weightbearing, etc." Dollar mentions
Peters' "depression theory" of movement of the coffin bone within the hoof
and changes of the hoof wall shape during weight-bearing. See also
Lungwitz, 1891, for his side in the "heel expansion" controversy.


Year Published: 1883
Author: Ableitner, J. K.
Title: Popul„r, kurz... verfasstes Handbuch ber die Hufbeschlagkunst der
Pferde, deren M„ngel und Gebrechen...
Comments: "Popular, short... handbook about the art of shoeing horses,
their shortcommings and defects"


Year Published: 1883
Author: Zundel, August
Title: The Horse's Foot and Its Diseases. by A. Zundel. Principle
Veterinarian of Alsace-Lorraine, Secretary of the Veterinary Society of
Alsace, Etc. Etc. -- translated by A. Liautard M.D., V.S. ....etc.
Comments: Originally written as a series of articles which appeared in the
Dictionary of Hertzel d'Arboval, and in the American Veterinary Review,
the author condenses and compares the treatments for hoof diseases used by
numerous practitioners from various countries & shoes for treatment of
contraction.


Year Published: 1883
Author: Crane, W. J. E.
Title: The Smithy and the Forge: a Rudimentary Treatise, including
Instruction in the Farrier's Art, with a chapter on Coach Smithing
Comments:


Year Published: 1883
Author: Keil, Maurice
Title: The Art of Horseshoeing: Its Earliest History and Principles
(Scientific American Supplement No. 378, March 31, 1883; pages 6029-30)
Comments: "False notions as to the function of the horse's foot were
promulgated by men who only studied the hoof.... The theory was that the
hoof expanded and contracted at the sides, while the sole descended and
ascended.... To facilitate elasticity, the sole was ruthlessly mutilated,
until it was so thin that it yielded to the pressure of the thumb....
Nature's arrangements were subverted to suit very erroneous
notions...."apparently follows Fleming and Gamgee.


Year Published: 1883
Author: Simpson, Joseph Cairn
Title: Tips and Toe-weights
Comments: Simpson liked the action that toe-weights gave to trotters, but
said that the weight tired them and slowed them down. He recommended tips
as a lighter, and better alternative for trotters. He also mentions the
Goodenough shoe: "In Chicago some 8 years ago, many of the journeymen
blacksmiths refused to nail them on and they paraded the streets with
banners and mottoes to intimidate their 'bosses' from using them." (pg.73)


Year Published: 1884
Author: Henle, Jakob
Title: Das Wachstum der Menschlichen Nagels und des Pferdehufs
Comments: "The Growth of Human Nails and Horsehoofs"A comparison of
fingernails and horse hoofs, particularly of the laminae to the human nail
bed.


Year Published: 1884
Author: Ward, Rowland
Title: Observations on the Preservation of Hoofs, and the Designing of
Hoof Trophies
Comments: From the title, this appears to deal only with the keeping of
dead hoofs as desk ornaments, ash trays, trophies, etc. However, it would
be interesting to know what he recommends for their preservation -- No
doubt he insists on drying, not moisturizing, for strength and
preservation.... just as we should while the horse is still using them.
[I wonder if he is any relation to G. R. Ward, 1939 (q.v.).]


Year Published: 1884
Author: Gregory, C. W.
Title: Principles and Practice of Shoeing
Comments: Smith(IV-104) lists a T.D. Gregory, who graduated from
veterinary school in 1845, died in 1884 and wrote an article on Soundness,
and one on Laminitis that appeared in the Veterinarian magazine--possibly
a brother or the father of this Gregory(?). Smith does not mention this
book.


Year Published: 1884
Author: Fleming, George
Title: Veterinary Surgery
Comments: Probably deals with the horse's foot, as Fleming was quite
knowledgable in that area.


Year Published: 1884
Author: Gillon, Andrew
Title: The Best Way to Shoe Hunting, Carriage, and Farm Horses, As
Provided by Nine Years' Experience of the Bessemer Charlier Shoe, with
Practical Remarks by Farrier Cleland. [&] (Lecture on Horse-shoeing by Mr.
H. Charlier)
Comments: I am not certain why Gillon calls it a "Bessemer" Charlier shoe,
instead of just the Charlier shoe, but I would assume that it only means
he was making the shoes out of Bessemer process metal--that is steel,
rather than iron--and not that Bessemer, personally, had anything to do
with the invention of this shoe.


Year Published: 1884
Author: Zrn, F. A.
Title: Die Lehre vom Hufbeschlag und von den wichtigsten „usseren
Krankheiten des Pferdes, wie deren Heilung. 7. Aufl.
Comments: "The Teaching of Horseshoeing and most important external
Diseases of Horses, with their Treatment. 7th ed."Thary, 1896, gives
credit to Zrn's treatise on shoeing.


Year Published: 1884
Author: Lungwitz, Frederick Clement Anton
Title: Der Lehrmeister im Hufbeschlag
Comments: "The Instructor in Horseshoeing" , the American translation was
titled "A Text-book of Horseshoeing" (q.v.). From the American
translation: "To prevent slipping and the injurious effects of concussion
a great many shoes have been devised, in which are incorporated such
materials as hemp rope, linen fibre, papier mache, cork, wood, bast, felt
and rubber, but all fail in greater or lesser degree to meet practiacal
requirements."


Year Published: 1884
Author: Vallon, Alexandre Bernard
Title: Cours d'hippologie a l'usage de MM. les officiers de l'Arm‚e...:
Adopt‚ pour l'enseignement hippologique dans l'Arm‚e par d‚cision
minist‚rielle du 1er juin 1863 / par A. Vallon. 4e. ‚d.
Comments: "Course of Horsemanship for the use of the gentlemen officers of
the army... Adopted for teaching horsesmanship in the army by
administrative decision on 1 June 1863"


Year Published: 1885
Author: Postolka, August
Title: Geschichte der Periode der empirischen Tierheilkunde
Comments: "History of the Period of empirical veterinary medicine"


Year Published: 1885
Author: Day, William
Title: The Racehorse in Training, with Hints on Racing and Racing Reforms,
to which is added a chapter on "Shoeing"5th ed.
Comments:


Year Published: 1885
Author: Sloet, L. A. J. W.
Title: Vondst van hoefijzers te Nieuwersluis.
Comments: "The discovery of horseshoes at Nieuwersluis."


Year Published: 1885
Author: Wood, John George
Title: Horse and Man: Their Mutual Dependence and Duties by the Rev. J.
G. Wood author of "Homes Without Hands" "Bible Animals" etc.
Comments: Makes a very good case against the need for shoes, but although
he blames the shoes, it is clearly the improper hoof care in the stable
which is the source of the problems, not the shoes. "Whereas the hoof was
intended by Nature to be nearly as hard as iron, man, in his attempts to
improve upon Nature, does all in his power to soften it."..."I therefore
had the litter [bedding] removed by day and... the horse's feet became
tough... as oak.."Ellen Wells, who is compiling an annotated "Black
Beauty" (also see Wells, 1978), tells me that Wood also wrote some
interesting articles on humane horse care: "The horse and his owner." in
Good Words, 22(1881): 426-432, 635-641; and"Unintentional
cruelty." in Social Notes, 2(1878-1879): 739-741.


Year Published: 1885
Author: Strebel, V.
Title: Neues, illustrites Haus-Thierarzneibuch. Eine ausfrliche
Beschriebung der Zucht und Haltung s„mmtlicher Hausthiere, der inneren und
ausseren Krankheiten... so wie der Geburtshilfe und des Hufbeschlags.
Comments: "New, illustrated Domestic Animal Veterinary Book... etc." This
was co-authored by E. Reicherter.


Year Published: 1886
Author: Jeffery, C. T.
Title: Revolution in Horse-Shoeing
Comments:


Year Published: 1886
Author: Delp‚rier, J. B. L‚on
Title: Manuel Raisonn‚ de la Ferrure … Glace Delp‚rier, par J. B. L.
Delp‚rier
Comments: "Scientific Manual of Delp‚rier Ice Shoeing"


Year Published: 1886
Author: Wood, John George
Title: Horse and Man: Their Mutual Dependance and Duties
Comments: see notes on the London edition 1885.


Year Published: 1886
Author: Doyle, C. J.
Title: Horse-Shoeing
Comments:


Year Published: 1887
Author: Dominik, Fr.
Title: Lehrbuch ber Hufbeschlag
Comments: Translates as "Textbook on Horseshoeing". Dollar says (pg.
16) "his observations on the action of animals before and after shoeing,
and his demonstrations proved of great service." Dominik claimed there
was no heel expansion, and he recommended a shoe formed so that it's hoof
surface would be at right angles to the wall at every part.Dominick,
1870, may be the same person, with the name spelled differently by Dollar
and Huth.


Year Published: 1887
Author: Magner, Dennis
Title: The Art of Taming and Educating the Horse: ...Together with
Chapters on Feeding, Stabling, Shoeing, and the Practical Treatment for
Sickness, Lameness, etc. ....
Comments:


Year Published: 1887
Author: Postolka, August
Title: Geschichte der Thierheilkunde, von ihren Anf„ngen bis auf die
Jetztzeit. Dargestellt von Thierarzt August Postolka
Comments: "A History of Veterinary Medicine from its Beginnings to the
Present"
The National Union Catalog notes that it includes a bibliography.


Year Published: 1887
Author: Gregory, C. W.
Title: Hints on Lameness in Horses
Comments:


Year Published: 1887
Author: Muybridge, Eadweard
Title: Animals in Motion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of
Consecutive Phases of Muscular Actions.
Comments: Muybridge's studies of animal locomotion--by setting up a series
of cameras to take a sequence of still photographs against a marked
background finally settled many arguments and misconceptions on the gaits
of horses. See also notes on the 1985 partial reprint.


Year Published: 1887
Author: Delp‚rier, Paul
Title: Monographie des ferrures … glace
Comments: "Monograph on ice shoes"


Year Published: 1887
Author: Huth, Frederick Henry
Title: Works on Horses and Equitation: A Bibliographical Record of
Hippology
Comments: Smith says: "The remarkable collection of works known as the
Huth Library contained so many bearing on animals [read "horses"] that a
separate catalogue was published, arranged chronologically (B.M., No. BBE,
c.14). It is a valuable source of information not only of published books,
but of the number of editions and their dates. ...the collection is now
dispersed." It also indexes the works by subject--an indispensable
reference.There were 190 books in Huth on the horse's foot, shoes and
shoeing that weren't in Smith.


Year Published: 1887
Author: Rich, George E.
Title: Artistic Horse-Shoeing, a Practical and Scientific Treatise, giving
improved methods of shoeing with special directions for shaping shoes to
cure different diseases of the foot, and for the correction of... trotters
Comments: In the introduction Prof. Rich is described as an apprentice at
the age of 14 -- by the age of 24 he had shod for the government, and
worked several years in various locations from Washington D. C. to Dunkirk
N.Y.--finally getting a job with "one of the best shops" in Balto. that
paid less than his board alone--so now he teaches. "About 53 degrees may
be considered the right thing for the front foot, while 58 or 60... for
the hind"The 1907 edition was 233 pages.


Year Published: 1887
Author: Watrin, Alphonse Auguste
Title: Le pied du cheval et sa Ferrure
Comments: "The Foot of the Horse and it's Shoeing" Fleming says: "His
object appears to have been... to prevent contraction of the heels; and we
can scarcely doubt that the means by which he sought to attain that end
were those most likely to induce this deformity. The sole was [too] well
pared, the frog and bars mutilated, the external quarter of the fore-foot
was reduced to a lower level than the inner...."--things that cause
contraction.Fleming-572 (1869) says: "The shoe was that generally in use
in France, only at the inner corner of each heel it had a [bar] clip.."
NUC--DLC; CtY; Zundel speaks of Watrin's proposed shoe on page 84--also
noting that the branches were inclined.


Year Published: 1888
Author: Liautard, Alexandre
Title: Lameness of Horses and Diseases of the Locomotory Apparatus
Comments: Liautard was dean of the American Veterinary College and the
driving force of the USVMA--also editor of American Veterinary Review.


Year Published: 1888
Author: Langenbakher, L.
Title: Zapiski teorii kovki; kurs ofitserskoi kavaleriyskoi shkoli.
Comments: "Notes on the theory of horseshoeing; course of officers'
cavalry school."


Year Published: 1888
Author: Brown, Sir George Thomas
Title: The Structure of the Horse's Foot and the Principles of Shoeing
Comments: From Pady's comments it appears Brown may have opposed the
analysis of hoof and shoe wear to balance a foot, and preferred book
learning over experience. I haven't seen the book.


Year Published: 1889
Author: South, William A.
Title: Hand Book to Shoeing Horses on the "Rational" or Improved Charlier
Principle. With Diagrams... by William A. South, F.R.C.V.S.
Comments: It is not without reason that a number of so called "rational"
approaches to horseshoeing were published in the second half of the
1800's--they were in response to the numerous erroneous theories of the
late 1700's and the first half of the 1800's. Unfortunately, these new
"rational" approaches were, with the exception of Holmstr”m (1904), just
more half-baked promotions--South's was a short (3/4 length) Charlier
shoe.


Year Published: 1889
Author: Gavin, Max.
Title: Compte-rendu de la promenade arch‚ologique de la Commission des
antiquit‚s et des arts du D‚partement de Seine-et-Oise … l'exposition de
la mar‚chalerie r‚trospective au Palais du MinistŠre de la guerre.
Comments: "Account of the archeological walk of the commission on
antiquities and the arts of D‚partement de Seine-et-Oise at the
retrospective exhibition of horseshoeing at the Palace of the Minister of
War."


Year Published: 1889
Author: Kuhn, L.
Title: Neuerungen und Erfindungen auf dem Gebiete des Hufbeschlages und
der Behandlung der Hufkrankheiten in den letzten 10 Jahren.
Comments: "New inventions in the department of horseshoeing and the
treatment of hoof diseases in the last 10 years."


Year Published: 1889
Author: Richardson, Milton Thomas, ed.
Title: The Practical Horseshoer. Being a collection of articles on horse-
shoeing, in all its branches, which have appeared from time to time in the
columns of "The Blacksmith and Wheelwright" incl. a ch. on horse
physiognomy..
Comments: This is a collection of articles written by people who actually
shoe horses for a living. There are many good ideas, and lively
discussions of opposing views--while there is some theorizing, what shines
out is that they speak from experience and observation. As he says in the
preface: "The present work embraces the varying views of a large number of
horseshoers located in all parts of the U.S., and as such is unique in its
conception."


Year Published: 1889
Author: Moubis, J. B. H.
Title: Het hoefbeslag. Handleiding tot eene rationeele uitoefening van
het hoefsmidsvak.
Comments: "Horseshoeing. Guide to a rational performance of professional
horseshoeing."


Year Published: 1889
Author: Watts, J. E.
Title: How to Shoe a Horse; or, Twenty-five years' practical experience in
horseshoeing and treating of lame horses. A Treatise on the shoeing and
treatment of diseased feet with their care, and ... best remedies... etc.
Comments: "Do not drive the nails very high, except in a bad foot where it
is impossible to get a good hold without. ...The smaller nail will hold
better than the large, because it does not split the hoof so much.
...Cheap workmen as a rule, are nearly all poor workmen. A man shouch
charge enough so that he can afford to do a good job, or not do it at
all."


Year Published: 1890
Author: Kalning, K. I.
Title: Uchen‹e o ratsionalnoi kovkie loshadei. 2. ed.
Comments: "Lessons on rational shoeing of horses."Mentioned in the
preface of Thary, 1896, as professor of the veterinary school at Kazan.


Year Published: 1890
Author: Aureggio, EugŠne
Title: Les Chevaux de Guerre, leurs origines et leurs ferrures dans
l'antiquit‚ et au moyen age jusqu' … nos jours.... Historie et catalogue
illustr‚ des ferrures … glace fran‡aises et ‚trangŠres. par E. Aureggio
Comments: "War Horses, Their Origins and Their Shoeing. History and
Illustrated Catalog of Ice Shoes."


Year Published: 1890
Author: Goyau, Louis Pierre
Title: Manuel de mar‚chalerie militare
Comments: "Manual of military farriery" Dollar gave no date or publisher
for this work, and I have been unable to confirm it.


Year Published: 1890
Author: Nicard, Pol
Title: Les Anciens, ont-ils connu la ferrure … clous?
Comments: "The Ancients, did they know shoeing with nails?"


Year Published: 1890
Author: M”ller, Heinrich
Title: Die Hufkrankheiten des Pferdes ihre Erkennung, Heilung und
Verhtung
2. Aufl.
Comments: "The Hoof Diseases of Horses, their Diagnosis, Treatment and
Prevention" Dollar (1898, pg.72) says "M”ller distinguishes in the
sensitive wall 3 layers, viz., (1) the periosteal layer
(stratum-periostale); (2) the vascular layer (stratum-vasculosum); and (3)
the real laminal layer (stratum-phyllodes)...."


Year Published: 1890
Author: Manning, J. Russell
Title: The Illustrated Stock Doctor and Livestock Encyclopedia, Including
Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine, and Poultry, With All the Facts... etc.
Comments: Curious that there are only about 17 pages dealing with the
horse's hoofs, their diseases and care (and nothing on shoeing), when on
page 142 he says "The feet are half the horse...." Since he recommends
standing horses in cow-dung to condition their feet it's no wonder he
knows something about canker: "A fungous growth of a cheesy texture....
...more offensive than thrush, and the disease more obstinate..." (pg.
459)


Year Published: 1890
Author: Bergeron, Ad.
Title: Guide th‚orique et practique de mar‚chalerie … l'usage des
mar‚chaux et ‚lŠves mar‚chaux-ferrants.
Comments: "Guide to the Theory and Practice of Farriery"


Year Published: 1890
Author: U.S.D.A., Bureau of Animal Industry
Title: Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
Comments: Prepared by some of the best veterinary authorities in the
UnitedStates, this government document was prepared to further the
recognition of common diseases in horses. Simpler treatments are given,
surgeries etc. are not. 100,00 copies of the 1916 edition were printed,
70,000 for use by the House of Representatives, and 30,000 for the Senate.
Horseshoeing was written by John Adams, and follows Lungwitz--20 pgs.
& foot diseases, 73 p.1890 shoeing section was written by Dickinson, and
uses illustrations from Russell - the 1916 version was written by Adams
and follows Lungwitz - both in error.


Year Published: 1891
Author: Hess, E.
Title: šber Hufkrankheiten und ihre Behandlung.
Comments: "On Hoof Diseases and their Treatment"


Year Published: 1891
Author: Moul‚, L‚on
Title: Histoire de la M‚decine V‚t‚rinaire
Comments: Smith says: "Had I found it earlier it would have saved much
unnecessary work. It is a complete account of all that is known of
veterinary literature, recorded by one who has laboriously examined
everything that was accessible. It... includes a list of names of those
who have written either histories or precis on the subject."NUC--DNLM;


Year Published: 1891
Author: Lungwitz, Frederick Clement Anton
Title: "The Changes in the Form of the Horse's Hoof under the action of
the Body-Weight" (From experiments with the F”ringer electric apparatus
for demonstrating hoof mechanism) Jrnl. of Comp. Path. & Therap. vol.IV
no.3
Comments: Although this is a journal article, it has had an enormous
influence. It is a collection of 14 individual experiments on the motion
of horses' hoofs during weightbearing, and an attack on the methods and
findings of Lechner, Peters, and Dominik. All of the horses were shod,
to take the measurements, so his conclusion that "The experiments prove
anew that shoeing impedes or alters the hoof mechanism." could not have
been tested,let alone proved. Despite his promotion of "heel expansion"
he also says: "The occurance of contraction of the solar edge of the heels
at the moment of greatest over-extention of the fetlock joint, certainly
cannot be denied, for Experiment 6 has proved this contraction, and
numerous observations... point to the frequent occurrence of such a
movement...." (pg. 209)


Year Published: 1892
Author: Pader, J.
Title: Pr‚cis Th‚orique et Pratique de Mar‚chalerie Comprenant la Ferrure
du Cheval et du Mulet
Comments: "Compendium of the theory and practice of farriery"


Year Published: 1892
Author: Goubaux, Armand
Title: The Exterior of the Horse, 2nd ed. by Armand Goubaux & Gustave
Barrier -- transl. by S. J. J. Harger
Comments:


Year Published: 1892
Author: Gleason, Oscar Rudolph
Title: Gleason's Horse Book. The only authorized work by America's king
of horse tamers, comprising history, breeding, training, buying, feeding,
grooming, shoeing, doctoring, telling age, and general care of the horse.
Comments: The 1898 title page continues: "Renowned Throughout America and
Recognized by the U.S. Government as the Most Expert and Successful
Horseman of the Present Age." He suggests: "It is the practice among many
horse owners... to pack and soak their horses' feet. ...it is wrong,
and... it has ruined thousands of our most valuable animals. ...When you
soak a board and dry it... the drier and more brittle it will be each
time." (p259-1898)Odd - after saying don't soak, on p260 he says "every
stable should have half a barrel placed in some corner with a noticed
above it `urinate here,' and 2 or 3 times a week each horse should be
swabbed off [feet and legs] with urine."!!!!


Year Published: 1892
Author: Smith, Frederick
Title: A Manual of Veterinary Physiology
Comments: "By horn being acted upon by caustic alkalies, the [horn] cells
are in the first instance rendered clear; they then gradually dissolve,
are converted into a gelatious mass, and finally disappear. The highly
alkaline nature of decomposing urine, owing to the presence of free
ammonia, being borne in mind, the practical application of this fact in
the care and management of the feet is very obvious." (5th ed.
pg718)effect of urine on hoofs.!


Year Published: 1893
Author: Smith, N. B.
Title: Mechanism of the horse's foot by N.B.Smith / June '93
Comments: This is an unpaged, handwritten manuscript. "In giving a
description of the mechanism of the horse's foot it is necessary, first,
to give a brief description of the anatomy of the same. And in giving a
description of the anatomy it is customary to include only the hoof and
its contents. Yet, from a zoological standpoint of view the foot includes
the leg from the carpus and hock down."


Year Published: 1893
Author: K”sters, Hubert
Title: Die Besichtigung des Pferdes mit Rcksicht auf die Ausfhrung des
Hufbeschlages [reprinted from the "Zeitschrift fr Veterinarkunde"]
Comments: "Observations of the Horse concerning the execution of
Horseshoeing"


Year Published: 1893
Author: Leisering, August Gottlob Theodor
Title: Noga loshadi, yeya stroyenie, otpravlenie i kovka. (Der Fuss des
Pferdes.) S 7-vo niemetskavo izdania. / A. Leisering, H. Hartmann, & A.
Lungwitz
Comments: "The foot of the horse; its structure, function, and shoeing.
From the 7. German ed."


Year Published: 1893
Author: Fisher, A. T.
Title: The Farrier or `No Foot, No Horse': with Some Description of the
Anatomy of the Horse's Foot and How to Shoe and Preserve it in Health. by
Major A. T. Fisher author of `Throught the Stable and Saddle-Room'... etc.
Comments: From looking at the chapter subheadings in the table of
contents, the books looks to be quite interesting--topics include: Shoes
of the 16th and 19th Centuries compared; Foot of the Horse not Expansive;
Calkins--Thomas Blundeville--Cesar Fiaschi on Calkins; Classification of
Diseases of the Horse's Foot; Temperature of Feet in Navicular Disease;
etc., etc.


Year Published: 1893
Author: Lupton, James Irvine
Title: Horses sound and unsound, with the law relating to sales and
warranty.
Comments: Lupton also wrote "The anatomy of the muscular system of the
horse." which was published in London in 1867 [DNLM].NUC-DNAL; PU-V


Year Published: 1893
Author: Daul, A.
Title: Illustrirte Geschichte des Hufeisens. Dessen Verbesserungen und
Neuerfindungen in den verschiedenen L„ndern...
Comments: "Illustrated history of horseshoes. Its improvements and new
inventions in different countries..."


Year Published: 1893
Author: Xenophon, the Historian
Title: The Art of Horsemanship...Translated, with Chapters on the Greek
Riding-Horse and with Notes by M. H. Morgan
Comments: A wonderful little book. See notes for 380 BC, and 1979.


Year Published: 1893
Author: Braungart, Richard
Title: Die Hufeisenfunde in Deutschland, namentlich in Sdbayern, und die
Geschicte des Hufeisens [in] Landw. Jahrb. bd. 22, p.325-433
Comments: "The finding of horseshoes in Germany, namely South Bavaria, and
the History of Horseshoes [in] Agricultural Yearbook..."


Year Published: 1893
Author: Hayes, Matthew Horace
Title: Points of the Horse: A Treatise on the Conformation, Movements,
Breeds and Evolution of the Horse.
Comments: see notes on 7th ed. 1969.


Year Published: 1894
Author: Roberge, David
Title: The Foot of the Horse; or Lameness and all Diseases of the Feet
Traced to an Unbalanced Foot Bone, Prevented or Cured by Balancing the
Foot
Comments:


Year Published: 1894
Author: Magner, Dennis
Title: Facts for Horse Owners...
Comments: Pady says: "A pictorial encyclopedia of practical
instruction...." Although I haven't seen it, I would guess that it
contains information on the foot and shoeing similar to that in his other
books.


Year Published: 1894
Author: Waters, H.
Title: Beurteilung und Behandlung der Fohlenhufe.
Comments: "Judgement and Treatment of Foal's Hoofs."


Year Published: 1894
Author: Behrens, Heinrich
Title: Die Erziehung des Pferdes mit Rcksicht auf die Vorbereitung zum
Beschlag.
Comments: "The education of horses with regards to the preparation for
shoeing"


Year Published: 1894
Author: Niles, E. P.
Title: ...Principles of Horseshoeing...(Virginia Agricultural
Experiment Station, Blacksburg. Bulletin No. 46 new ser. vo.lII no.11)
Comments:


Year Published: 1894
Author: Xenophon, the Historian
Title: The Art of Horsemanship...Translated, with Chapters on the Greek
Riding-Horse and with Notes by M. H. Morgan
Comments: Xenophon's treatise on horsemanship had also been published in
England in 1771, in Berenger's The History and Art of Horsemanship
(BM #64.e.17.), and before that, in a work by J. Astley in 1584 (BM
#58.b.8.(1)).


Year Published: 1894
Author: Roberge, David
Title: The Foot of the Horse; or Lameness and all Diseases of the Feet
Traced to an Unbalanced Foot Bone, Prevented or Cured by Balancing the
Foot
Comments: Although the author is listed as David Roberge and the book is
dedicated to Robert Bonner, the Horseshoers Journal page 394 of 1913 says
that David Roberge is in fact the pen-name of Robert Bonner--they are one
and the same. The book rambles but has interesting ideas on balance and
the usefulness of a center-bearing shoe similar to the old "walnut" shoe.
He cites Gamgee. Both Magner and Going (q.v.) cite the genius of Robert
Bonner.


Year Published: 1894
Author: Ludlow, Jacob Rapelye
Title: Science in the stable; or, How a horse can be kept in perfect
health and be used without shoes, in harness or under the saddle, with the
reasons why. by Jacob R. Ludlow, M.D., Late Staff Surgeon U.S. Army Lt.
Col. by Brevet
Comments: A very small booklet, with some good advice: "'A pede herculem'
-- as the foot is, so is the horse." "Man... requiring warm clothing,
artificial heat, and cooked food, fancies that he must place a horse in
surroundings that would be comfortable to himself. So he wraps him up in
a blanket, and puts him in a warm close stable. ...and then imagines that
his horse is happy." (pg. 13)."These two things are essential to
his well-being: pure air to breathe and a clean stall to stand in."
(pg. 72).Other books against the need for, or use of, horseshoes were
popular around this time--see also Page, 1883; Wood, 1886; and Fisher,
1892 (Ludlow contains 6 pages of quotation from Fisher).


Year Published: 1895
Author: Magner, Dennis
Title: The Standard Horse Book
Comments: Magner's ABC... 1899, is simply excerpts from this
book--see also comments under The Classic Encyclopedia of the Horse,
1980. This book apparently grew out of the earlier and smaller The
Standard Horse and Stock Book of 1887 & 1893.


Year Published: 1895
Author: Niles, E. P.
Title: ...Shoeing for Special Purposes... (Virginia Agricultural
Experiment Station. Blacksburg, Bulletin No. 54 new ser. vol.IV no.7)
Comments:


Year Published: 1895
Author: Pucitta, E.
Title: Contributo alla cura della malattia navicolare o podotrochilite
cronica.
Comments: There has been some movement in recent years to reintroduce the
term "podotrochlitis" to take the place of "navicular disease."


Year Published: 1895
Author: Russell, William
Title: Russell on Scientific Horseshoeing for Leveling and Balancing the
Action and Gait of Horses, and Remedying and Curing the Different Diseases
of the Foot, Revised and Enlarged
Comments: With this edition, the title changed, but from the phrase
"revised and enlarged" it apparently was the same basic book. The earlier
title carrried no different editions, until 1892, when it was revised and
enlarged, but with the original title. 1895 might then be considered the
3rd edition,--and I can find none between it and the 1899, 4th ed. I have
also been unable to find any records of a 5th ed., 8th ed., or 9th
ed.Frank Turley who has the 9th edition, notes that Russell is unusual in
advocating a perfectly symmetrical foot -- i.e. no difference between the
left and right.


Year Published: 1895
Author: Hunting, William
Title: The Art of Horse-Shoeing
Comments: Appreciated the importance of experience in shoeing. Said
so-called expansion of the hoof could be ignored. "It was the theorists,
who taught expansion of the wall and descent of the sole as primary
necessities in the function of a foot, who must be credited with all the
evils resulting from robbing the sole and frog of horn." & "Too much
moisture in horn weakens it... the protection against this is the hard
outer layer of the hoof."Hunting had been a student of Gamgee's, at the
New Veterinary College in Edinburgh. (see also Gamgee, 1871)


Year Published: 1895
Author: Hall, Richard Boylston
Title: Every Man His Own Farrier. Common-Sense Instructions for Shoeing
Horses Balancing Trotter, Pacer, Runner Without the Aid of Mechanical
Appliances / R. Boylston Hall, Expert Farrier, 407 Rialto Bldg. Chicago,
IL
Comments: He says frog pressure is not desirable and it does not, by
itself, spread the hoof. and "Immediate results, sometimes, when races
are on, may be an excuse for the use of weights, but as soon... [as
possible, one should have] the feet balanced ...[for correct]
articulation...." The title page lists him as a contributor to a half
dozen horse magazines, among them, the Western Horseman. He advertises
the steel-clad aluminum "Jerome" shoe.


Year Published: 1896
Author: Pellerin, C.
Title: Median neurotomy in the treatment of chronic tendonitis and
periostosis of the fetlock.
Comments:


Year Published: 1896
Author: Fitzwygram, Frederick Wellington John
Title: Directions for Shoeing Horses With Ordinary Feet
Comments:


Year Published: 1896
Author: Thary, Claude tienne Augustin
Title: Mar‚chalerie par A. Thary V‚t‚rinaire Militaire Ancien R‚p‚titeur …
l'cole V‚t‚rinaire d'Alfort. Avec 303 figures intercalees dans le texte.
(Encyclop‚die V‚t‚rinaire Publi‚e sous la direction de C.Cad‚ac)
Comments: Published as volume VII of C. Cadeac's Encyclopedie
Veterinaire. In the introduction he names over 45 authors on shoeing
from which he has learned. The shoes used by numerous different
individuals and nations are compared, as well as those of earlier times.
It is a classic, similar in size and scope to Dollar, Leisering, or Peuch
(q.v.).


Year Published: 1896
Author: Quadekker, E. A. L.
Title: De hoef en zijn beslag. Leiddraad voor de practijk en het examen
in hoefbeslag. In foofdzaak naar het werkje van H. M”ller.
Comments: "The hoof and it's shoeing. Handbook for the practice and
testing in horseshoeing. Following the work of H. M”ller."


Year Published: 1896
Author: Peuch, Fran‡ois
Title: Pr‚cis du Pied du Cheval et de sa Ferrure, avec Appendice sur la
Ferrure du Mulet, de l'Ane et du Boeuf / par F. Peuch et X. Lesbre,
Professeurs a l'cole Nationale V‚t‚rinaire de Lyon ...
Comments: There are 20 pages on the "expansion" controversy. 3 designs of
nailless shoes are pictured and discussed. On various shoes and devices
for the treatment of contracted hoofs there are 15 pages. There are
interesting chapters on shoes from various periods of time, those
suggested by various writers--Moorcroft, Coleman, Clark, Goodwin,
Charlier, etc. and those in use in various countries. The hoof morphology
section looks superb.Dollar notes they measured ratios between various
hoof parts, and found the ratio between the coronet and ground
circumference to be 5/6. The French bar shoes have always been straight
across the heels, with a wider bar than the English, etc.


Year Published: 1897
Author: Barton, Frank Townend
Title: Unsound Horses and How to Know Them;...
Comments:


Year Published: 1897
Author: Cousin, Charles
Title: Nouvelle Ferrure du Cheval, avec ses Applications au Traitment des
Maladies du Pied, Encastelure, Seimes, et Formes.
Comments: "New Horseshoeing, with the Applications or Treatment of
Diseases of the Foot, Contraction, Cracks, and Ringbone"


Year Published: 1897
Author: M”ller, Heinrich
Title: Anleitung zum Bestehen der Hufschmiede-Prfung. Nach den neuen
gesetzlichen Bestimmungen fr angehende Hufschmiede-Meisterbearbeitet
6te Aufl.
Comments: "Instructions to pass the Horseshoeing Examination, acccording
to legal regulation for future Master Horseshoers"


Year Published: 1897
Author: Lungwitz, Frederick Clement Anton
Title: A Text-Book of Horseshoeing for Horseshoers and Veterinarians, by
A. Lungwitz, Instructor in the Theory and Practice of Horseshoeing, and
Dir. of the Shoeing School... Dresden... Tr. from the 8th Gr. ed. by John
W. Adams...
Comments: Probably the most influential book on U.S. horseshoeing in the
20th century (along with the army manual, which was influenced by it). It
is for the most part an excellent, clear concise textbook, however, it is
flawed in several respects as it was written by a veterinarian who
apparently never shod a horse, nor made a shoe. e.g. The "instructions"
for making a shoe say little more than it should be made in two heats, not
how to do it....The above data is taken from the 3rd American translation.
"Necessary evil" mentions and shows nippers, (pg 98,99); balance=the
foot landing flat (pg101,2); still recommends wrought iron, not steel,
for shoes (p 103).


Year Published: 1898
Author: Lungwitz, Frederick Clement Anton
Title: A Text-Book of Horseshoeing for Horseshoers and Veterinarians by A.
Lungwitz, Instructor in the Theory and Practice of Horseshoeing, and Dir.
of the Shoeing School...Dresden... Tr. from the 8th Gr. ed. by John W.
Adams...
Comments: I assume that Lungwitz's teachings had more effect on the
British through Dollar, than through this American translation, but it is
interesting that it was also published in London.


Year Published: 1898
Author: Wyman, Willy Edward Alexander
Title: The Clinical Diagnosis of Lameness in the Horse
Comments: Pady says that the contents are "mainly a synopsis of the
teachings of Professor M”ller."


Year Published: 1898
Author: Delp‚rier, J. B. L‚on
Title: tude sp‚ciale du sabot du cheval et des alt‚rations ungueales...
Comments: "Special study of the hoof of the horse..."


Year Published: 1898
Author: Dollar, John Archibald Watt
Title: A Handbook of Horse-Shoeing with Introductory Chapters on the
Anatomy and Physiology of the Horse's Foot by Jno. A. W. Dollar,
M.R.C.V.S. ... etc. with the collaboration of Albert Wheatley, F.R.C.V.S.
Comments: An encyclopedic guide to shoes and shoeing and the anatomy and
physiology of the horse's foot. Especially interesting is a discussion of
the writers and researchers who believed in or disputed the theory of hoof
expansion. Also of interest is a photo of what must be one of the
earliest mobile shoeing rigs--for the Bershire County Council School for
teaching horseshoeing--there are also notes about the professional
organization.First mobile shoeing rigs!?


Year Published: 1898
Author: Hunting, William
Title: The Art of Horseshoeing: A Manual for Farriers by William
Hunting... American ed., rev. & enl. by the author
Comments: An excellent guide to horseshoeing--clear, concise, and
accurate. "To make and apply horse-shoes a man must be more than a clever
worker in iron, he must be a farrier and that necessitates a knowledge of
the horse's foot and the form of shoe best adapted to its wants...Machine
made shoes of a proper pattern are superior to all but the very best
hand-made shoes. Economy, of course, is on the side of the article
produced by machinery..."


Year Published: 1898
Author: Wyman, Willy Edward Alexander
Title: The Clinical Diagnosis of Lameness in the Horse
Comments:


Year Published: 1898
Author: Dammann, Ca.
Title: Die Ausbildung und Prfung der Hufschmiede und die Notwendigkeit
gut eingerichteter Lehrschmieden.
Comments: "The training and testing of horseshoers and the necessity of
good well-equipped teaching forges"


Year Published: 1898
Author: Caillol,
Title: R“le du Cheval, de la Bicyclette et des Voitures Automobiles … la
Guerre. par le Commandant Caillol
Comments: "Role of the horse, the bicycle, and the self-moving carraige in
the war."


Year Published: 1898
Author: Dollar, John Archibald Watt
Title: A Handbook of Horse-Shoeing with Introductory Chapters on the
Anatomy and Physiology of the Horse's Foot by Jno. A. W. Dollar,
M.R.C.V.S. ...translator of M”ller's "Veterinary Surgery" ... with...
Albert Wheatley FRCVS
Comments: Albert Wheatley collaborated on this work--from what I can
gather, although both were veterinarians, Wheatley supplied what little
practical information and experiences it has, and the illustrations of
English shoes, while Dollar was the one who translated the bulk of the
work from Leisering & Hartmann's "Der Fuss des Pferdes". A wealth of
information on theory and materials--written by veterinarians for
veterinarians.


Year Published: 1898
Author: Schtz, Hub. von
Title: Denkschrift und Vorschl„ge zur Verbesserung des Hufbeschlages und
der Hufpflege im deutschen Reiche.
Comments: "Writings and Suggestions for Improving the Horseshoeing and the
Hoof Care in the German Reich."


Year Published: 1899
Author: Westring, Gustav Frederik
Title: Beslaglaere Udarbejdet med Naermest Hensyn til Beslagsmedens Tarv.
4. Opl.
Comments: "Farriery Prepared with very close regard to the Farrier, 4th
ed." Thary, 1896, mentions Westring as one of the many texts he consulted.


Year Published: 1899
Author: Dubois, Charles Melchior
Title: Pr‚cis d'Hippologie: tude du cheval de guerre: conditions de son
emploi et de sa conservation3. ‚d.
Comments:


Year Published: 1899
Author: Magner, Dennis
Title: Magner's ABC Guide to Sensible Horseshoeing; A Simple and Practical
Treatise on the Art of Shoeing Horses. Including Chapters on -- Methods
of Making a Horse Stand to be Shod...How to Tell the Age of a Horse, etc.
Comments: There is much discussion of various authorities and their
differing approaches to hoof problems, and it is accompanied by many
illustrations. He quotes Gamgee: "One change, among others introduced by
Mr. Coleman, has entailed, I believe, a more lasting damage on the art of
farriery than any of his many other crochets.... He introduced the
drawing knife, and made it supercede the buttress for preparing the feet
for shoeing."


Year Published: 1900
Author: Grossbauer, Josef
Title: Der Hufbeschlag, mit Besonderer Bercksichtigung der Praktishers
Durchfhrung. Mit einem Anhange: Der Klauenbeschlag und der Hufbeschlag
fr des Pferd [later eds. as "Der Huf- und Klauenbeschlag]
Comments: "Horse and Ox Shoeing" Lungwitz, 1913 (see 1966), page 132,
mentions cast-iron shoes designed by Grossbauer, and sold by Hannes' Sons
in Vienna.NUC-PU-V,


Year Published: 1900
Author: Oskolkoff, I. V.
Title: Kovka i boliezni kopit.
Comments: "Shoeing and diseases of the hoof."


Year Published: 1900
Author: Holmstr”m, John Gustaf
Title: Modern Blacksmithing, Rational Horseshoeing and Wagon Making: with
rules, tables, recipes, etc. ...
Comments: The preface of the 1902 edition of "Scientific Horse, Mule and
Ox Shoeing" refers to "my first book, 'Modern Blacksmithing, Rational
Horseshoeing and Wagonmaking'" so apparently there was at least one
earlier edition of this book. The titles accurately reflect the contents,
but the various sections are often directly copied from book to book, with
only a change in the brand of tool pictured.


Year Published: 1901
Author: Guten„cker, Friedrich
Title: Die Hufkrankheiten des Pferdes; ihre Erkennung, Verhtung und
Heilung. Fr Thier„rzte und Studirende der Thiermedicin
Comments: "The Hoof Diseases of Horses...." The National Union Catalog
notes that it contains a bibliography.


Year Published: 1901
Author: Lungwitz, Frederick Clement Anton
Title: Was ist Reitern, Fahrern und Pferdebesitzern vom Hufbeschlag zu
wissen n”tig?
Comments: "What do riders, drivers and horseowners need to know about
horseshoeing?"


Year Published: 1901
Author: Hobstetter, Karl
Title: Die Hufknorpelfistel des Pferdes und ihre Behandlung.
Inaugural-Dissertation verfasst und der Hohen Medicinischen Fakult„t der
Grossherzoglich Hesssischen Ludwigs-Universit„t Giessen... etc.
Comments: "Quittor in Horses and its Treatment."


Year Published: 1901
Author: Aureggio, EugŠne
Title: Histoire de la Ferrure des Chevaux dans l'Antiquit‚ et au moyen ƒge
jusqu'… l'Exposition Universelle de 1900 … Paris, Ferrure Rationnelle;
Conf‚rences de Mar‚chalerie... R‚dig‚ par M. le Professuer Peuch
Comments: "History of the shoeing of horses in antiquity and the middle
ages until the Universal Exposition of 1900 in Paris, rational shoeing;
conferences on horseshoeing... edited by Prof. Peuch"


Year Published: 1901
Author: Chapman, George T.
Title: Chapman's Manual of the Pathological Treatment of Lameness in the
Horse Treated Solely by Mechanical Means
Comments: Along with the nonsense: "Most of the lameness and all the
abnormal action in the horse's travel are caused by bad shoeing." there
is some good: "The frog of the wild horse on the prairies does not, as a
rule, come within a half inch of the ground. Among domesticated horses,
whenever you find a big frog you invariably find an impoverished and, in
many cases, a diseased wall. ...The desire for a big frog is nothing more
nor less than ignorance, made important by the authority of tradition."
Also: "What is generally needed... is the establishing of a school of
farriery, where investigations, experiments and demonstrations can be
made, so that from its graduates may descend a better tradition." The
NUC indicates the same Chapman also wrote "The Microbe has his Rights".


Year Published: 1902
Author: Russell, William
Title: Prescriptions and Instructions for Treating Diseases of Feet and
Legs of the Horse by Prof. William Russell; Together with a Treatise on
the Teeth of the Horse by W. A. Lewis, D.V.S.
Comments: Both the Library of Congress and the National Agricultural
Library have this, though I haven't seen it yet.NUC - DLC; DNAL;


Year Published: 1902
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: The Foke-Lore of Horse-Shoes and Horse-Shoeing
Comments:


Year Published: 1902
Author: Farriers, Worshipful Company of
Title: National Registration of Farriers: List of Shoeing Smiths
Registered by the Worshipful Company of Farriers
Comments:


Year Published: 1902
Author: Saint-Venant, J. de
Title: Anciens Fers de Chevaux … Double Traverse
Comments: "Ancient Horse Shoes with double cross-bars" I assume this
deals with what is now called a "stifle shoe" and used to be called a
"patten" shoe.


Year Published: 1902
Author: Thary, Claude tienne Augustin
Title: Ferrure du Cheval: Une Bonne M‚thode. par Thary; illustrations
de G. Nicolet
Comments: "Horseshoeing: A Good Method."


Year Published: 1902
Author: Guten„cker, Friedrich
Title: Die Lehre vom Hufbeschlag; Eine Anleitung fr die Praxis und die
Prfung. 7. Aufl.
Comments: "The Theory of Horsehoeing; a Guide for Practice and Testing."
This is the 7th edition, but the earliest one that I have come across so
far. Apparently the book was quite popular and long-lived. Reeks, 1906,
for many of the illustrations in his book, gives credit to Guten„cker.


Year Published: 1902
Author: Gibson, George Alexander
Title: Physical Diagnosis, 3rd ed. by George Gibson & William Russell
Comments: This has nothing to do with horseshoeing, except that the U.S.
Catalog of Books-in-Print of 1902 lists William Russell, the co-author, as
being the same William Russell who wrote "Scientific Horseshoeing" (1879
q.v.)! Gibson also published another book this same year "Diseases of the
Heart and Aorta"--as this 1902 Books-in-Print lists Hunting as "Hunter",
and Lungwitz' book as "Practical Horseshoeing", I assume they are
mistaken.


Year Published: 1902
Author: Periam, Jonathan
Title: The New Pictorial Cyclopedia of Livestock: Embracing Horses,
Cattle, Swine, Sheep, and Poultry, Including Departments on Dogs and Bees;
Being also a Complete Stock Doctor...etc. by Hon. Jonathan Periam & A.H.
Baker, V.S.
Comments: This book has 24 pages on diseases of the horse's feet, and 4
pages on shoeing. "Contraction is thought by many to be an original
disease, coming on without any departure from a healthy foot previously;
but this is a mistake.... It is nearly always the effect of some other
disease, especially when bad. Contraction accompanies navicular disease,
corns, founder, sprains of the tendons, ligaments and muscles of the leg
or shoulder.Any long-standing lameness, of the foot or leg, is always
accompanied by contraction of that foot.... At the same time, the healthy
foot expands... so it is only a question of a short time for the feet to
become very uneven, on small and the other large; and they will no longer
be mates." (pg. 295)


Year Published: 1902
Author: Holmstr”m, John Gustaf
Title: Scientific Horse, Mule & Ox Shoeing: A Standard Treatise Adapted to
the Demand of Veterinarians, Farriers & the Amateur Horseshoer.2nd ed.
by J. G. Holmstr”m, author of "Modern Blacksmithing"; Illustrated
Comments: This book is directed specifically at the shoer, and omits all
discussion of forgework. "I claim that corns are not caused by
shoeing.... Neither are they caused by shoes that... have been on too
long, for if that were the case every farm horse would have corns, while
it is a fact that farm horses are less subject to corns than other horses.
Further... why are hind feet not equally affected?" This is Holmstr”m's
best on shoeing.


Year Published: 1902
Author: Lungwitz, Frederick Clement Anton
Title: The Complete Guide to Blacksmithing, Horseshoeing, Carriage & Wagon
Building & Painting; Based on the Text Book on Horseshoeing...with
Chapters on Carriage-Ironing, Wagon... Ornamenting, etc. by Charles F.
Adams
Comments: How curious. This is partly an attempt to cash in on the name
of Lungwitz, and Adams too. The publisher says: "Anything from the pens
of Professor Lungwitz and Mr. Adams is unimpeachable...." but I would
disagree. There is very little of Lungwitz in here, no anatomy and none of
his excel- lent illustrations. Lungwitz didn't write on blacksmithing,
wagonbuilding, painting, etc.; and the Adams who translated him was John,
not Charles!"The use of a bar-shoe (if shoes are necessary) is advised for
all forms of crack.... ...In all cases care should be taken that the foot
is so dressed that the shoe fits air-tight...." (p144) "Bar cracks occur
only on the fore hoofs... They are usually accompanied by corns." (p145)


Year Published: 1902
Author: Montagnac, E.
Title: Guide Pratique de la Ferrure du Cheval. Suivi de: Conformation
Type du Sabot du Cheval, par E. Dup¢n, et Traitement Nouveau des Maladies
du Pied du Cheval, par A. Illaret
Comments: "Practical Guide on Horseshoeing. With the: Conformation Type
of Hoof, by E. Dup¢n, and New Treatment of Diseases of the Foot of the
Horse, by A. Illaret"


Year Published: 1903
Author: Adams, John William
Title: Horseshoeing(USDA Farmer's Bulletin #179)
Comments: NUC: DNAL; WaS; NN;


Year Published: 1903
Author: Eberlein, Richard Carl
Title: Leitfaden des Hufbeschlags
Comments: "Guide for Horseshoers"


Year Published: 1903
Author: Lungwitz, Johann Max.
Title: šbungen am Hufe fr Studierende der Thierheilkunde. Von dr. M.
Lungwitz... Mit 82 abbildungen.
Comments: "Practice with Hoofs for Veterinary Studies"I believe this is
the son of Anton Lungwitz.


Year Published: 1903
Author: Montoux, A.
Title: Le dentition et le pied du cheval (l'age et la ferrure). 2
Planches Colori‚es … Feuillet D‚coupes et Superpos‚s
Comments: "The teeth and the foot of the horse (the age and shoeing)..."


Year Published: 1903
Author: Hartung, Maurice
Title: Le Cheval. Hippologie. Exterieur du Cheval. De la Ferrure. Des
Maladies et de leurs Traitments. Soins Pratiques. Du Dressage.
Recettes. par le Baron M. Hartung
Comments: "The Horse. Horsemanship. Conformation. Shoeing. Diseases
and Treatments. ..."


Year Published: 1903
Author: Wilkie, Henry C.
Title: The Foot of the Horse -- Diagrams of the Foot of the Horse: With
Keys and Explanatory Notes
Comments: The British Museum catalog also lists diagrams of cattle mammary
glands done by the same author.


Year Published: 1904
Author: M‚gnin, Jean Pierre
Title: Histoire du Harnachement et de la Ferrure du Cheval, 2e ed.
Comments: "History of Harnessing and Shoeing the Horse"The National
Union Catalog notes that this has bibliographical footnotes.NUC-PU-V,


Year Published: 1904
Author: Barton, Frank Townend
Title: Sound and unsound horses...
Comments:


Year Published: 1904
Author: Fleming, George
Title: Modern Horseshoeing: A Practical Work on the Shoeing of Horses
Comments: Another curious book that I haven't seen. This is the same
number of pages as George Fleming's book "Practical Horseshoeing", 1872
(q.v.), so it may be just a reprint under another title, after his death
(see also Lungwitz, 1902).


Year Published: 1904
Author: Lungwitz, Frederick Clement Anton
Title: Wandtafeln zur Beurteilung der Fsse und Hufe des Pferdes. Mit
rcksicht auf Fussaxe und Hufform.
Comments: "Wall chart for judging the foot and hoofs of horses. With
regards to foot axis and hoof shape."


Year Published: 1904
Author: Holmstr”m, John Gustaf
Title: Modern Blacksmithing and Horseshoeing
Comments: I haven't seen this, but from the similarities of his other
works, I expect this is nearly identical to "Modern Blacksmithing,
Rational Horseshoeing, and Wagonmaking", 1900, -- except lacking 45 pages
on wagonmaking. The "Modern..." series (Drake's in particular) seems to
be of much poorer quality, concerning shoeing, than Holmstr”m's other
books.


Year Published: 1904
Author: Lechner, J.
Title: Der Huf und seine Mechanik. Skizze ber den anatomischen Bau und
die Verrichtungen des Hufes
Comments: "The Hoof and its Workings. Sketch of Anatomical Structure and
Function of Hoofs" While looking for Lechner's "Rotation Theory", as
mentioned by Dollar, 1898, I ran across this in the National Union
Catalog--is this it? There must have been an earlier publication of it,
possibly in a journal, as Lungwitz, 1891, also refers to "the publication
of the 'Rotation Theory' by Professor Lechner of Vienna in 1881...."


Year Published: 1905
Author: K”sters, Hubert
Title: Lehrbuch des Hufbeschlages. 3. Aufl.
Comments: "Textbook of Horseshoeing, 3rd ed."From the similarity of the
titles, I wonder if this is a later edition of Dominik, 1887 (q.v.).


Year Published: 1905
Author: France, MinistŠre de la guerre
Title: Manuel de Mar‚chalerie, … l'usage de Mar‚chaux Ferrants de l'Arm‚e
Comments: "Manual of Horseshoeing, for the use of the Army Horseshoers"


Year Published: 1905
Author: Axe, J. Wortley
Title: The Horse, its treatment in Health and Disease with a complete
guide to Breeding, Training and Management. Edited by Prof. J. Wortley
Axe, M.R.C.V.S., Ex-President of the Royal College of Veterinary
Surgeons...etc.
Comments: The material on the horse's foot is in Volume VI of the series
and consists of about 60 pages on diseases of the feet, and problems of
interfering. He correctly identifies overreach: "This results when the
toe of the hind-foot strikes the heel or coronet of the fore.... The
damage to the fore-foot is inflicted by the inner margin of the toe of the
hind shoe, and not, as is frequently supposed, by the front or outer
edge."Also, of historical interest, Axe (vol. VI, pg. 481-3) describes the
actions and uses of the drugs then commonly used to treat horses. Among
those drugs are: Indian Hemp [marijuana], an antispasmodic; Cocaine, a
topical anesthetic, particularly useful for eye treatments; and Tobacco, a
"powerful narcotic"--times change, don't they?


Year Published: 1905
Author: Lam‚ris, F.
Title: Het hoefbeslag in woord en beeld.
Comments: "Horseshoeing in words and pictures."


Year Published: 1905
Author: Lam‚ris, F.
Title: Het onderzoek van het paard voor het beslag
Comments: "The examination of the horse for shoeing"


Year Published: 1905
Author: Great Britain, Patent Office
Title: Patents for Inventions. Abridgements of Specifications. Class 67,
Horse-Shoes. Period -- A.D. 1855-1866
Comments: For a brief moment, it struck me as odd that there was need for
a separate classification for horseshoe inventions. In this particular
period (1855-1866), and the next 20 years, the inventions described fall
into 3 main areas: machines for making shoes; nailless shoes
(glue-on too); and traction devices. Of the nailless shoes and
traction devices some are clever, most are very foolish--several have
recently re-appeared.Besterman, 4th ed. 1965, notes that this was
published for the periods: 1855-66; 1867-76; 1877-83; 1884 -88; 1889-92;
1893-96; 1897-1900; 1901-04; 1905-08; 1909-15; 1916-20; 1921-25; and
1926-30. Also a compilation was made and published in 1914: "Patents for
Inventions. Fifty Years Subject Index, 1861-1910, Class 67 Horse-Shoes,
Patent Office [Great Britian] 1914"


Year Published: 1905
Author: U.S., Mounted Service School
Title: The Army Horseshoer. A manual prepared for the use of the students
of the training school for farriers and horseshoers by the Training school
instructors. [later eds. "Manual for Army Horseshoers"; then "The
Horseshoer"]
Comments: The 1905 edition seems to have the best anatomy--especially
concerning blood supply to the foot--the later editions, by the War Dept.
have been larger, and the 1941 ed. especially popular. Later editions had
more on forgework, and on shoeing different types of horses: draft,
hunters, mules and polo ponies; but they had less on anatomy and some
photographs were replaced with line drawings.See also "The Horseshoer"
1966.


Year Published: 1906
Author: Schwyter, Hermann
Title: Die Gestaltsver„nderungen des Pferdefusses infolge Stellung und
Gangart. [inaug. diss. Zurich]
Comments: "The Change of the Horse's Feet based on its Position and Way of
Going."


Year Published: 1906
Author: Marshall, F. C.
Title: Elements of Hippology. by Major F. C. Marshall, U.S. Calvalry
Prepared for the Department of Tactics, United States Military Academy
Comments: 12 pages on shoeing--follows Fitzwygram, and 18 pages on the
hoof and its diseases. On laminitis: "Rapid changes of temperature--suden
cooling after becoming very hot, either by watering the horse copiously,
or by standing him uncovered in a draft--is a very common cause....
Neglect of 'cooling out' a hot horse in summer might cause laminitis; in
the winter... would be more apt to cause congestion of the lungs, followed
by pneumonia."


Year Published: 1906
Author: Bassi, R[oberto?]
Title: L'arte di ferrare i cavalli. 2. ed.
Comments:


Year Published: 1906
Author: Reeks, H. Caulton
Title: Diseases of the Horse's Foot. by H. Caulton Reeks, Fellow of the
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Author of "The Common Colics of the
Horse"
Comments: An interesting, though not easily read, book.The 27 pages on
contracted hoof can leave one more confused than enlightened--but
certainly gives one food for thought. Sectioning of the hoof wall and
surgery of the hoof are also extensively covered. "Unless the
discoloration of the horn is accidentally discovered by the smith, the
simple, dry corn may go undetected. ...Lameness due to corn is often
intermittent."Unbelieveably, on pg. 130 he says "Smith was the first
English veterinarian to use a shoe of his own devising, and to report its
effects."!!!! My god, where has this guy been? Also notes, pg 64, that F.
Smith used similar experiment with similar results before Lungwitz!?! He
describes several grooving operations for contraction--none of which work.


Year Published: 1907
Author: Lienaux, E.
Title: Pr‚cis du Cours de Mar‚chalerie. Addendum.
Comments: "Compendium of the Course of Horseshoeing"


Year Published: 1907
Author: Hodgins, J. E.
Title: The Veterinary Science. (Revised & Enlarged.) The Anatomy, Diseases
and Treatment of Domestic Animals Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Dogs and
Poultry Also Containing a Full Description of Medicines & Receipts. 92nd
ed.
Comments: The reverse of the preface page says: "The Veterinary Science is
equivalent to a thorough practical course in a Veterinary College...."
This may well be true, as in those days, before 1900, many veterinary
schools had little or no requirement for enrollment, and granted a diploma
after as little as 2 months of study. Only about 15 pages on the hoof and
its diseases, nothing on shoeing -- but oral bicarbonate of soda for
laminitis.page 312--the earliest ones to do so that I'm aware of--and I
think it is likely to be a helpful treatment.
T. H. Haskett is the co-author.


Year Published: 1907
Author: Holmstr”m, John Gustaf
Title: Standard Blacksmithing, Horseshoeing and Wagon Making; containing:
Twelve Lessons in Elementary Blacksmithing...Tables, Rules... A Rational
Treatise on Horseshoeing and the Anatomy of the Foot of the Horse...etc.
Comments: "Many owners of fast horses are very slavish to fashion. The
latest! the latest! they demand, and no matter how injudicious. Somebody
starts a fad and it goes the round. ...Nothing is more absurd than those
slabs of bar iron called toe weight shoes, but the whim demands this shoe,
and the manufacturer, as well as the farrier, is ready to accomodate those
laboring under the delusion. A man with a... whim... is deaf to all
reasoning...."


Year Published: 1908
Author: Barrier, Gustave
Title: Manuel d'Anatomie et de Dissection du Cheval par Gustave Barrier &
Gabriel Petit
Comments: "Manual of the Anatomy and the Dissection of the Horse"


Year Published: 1908
Author: Aureggio, EugŠne
Title: La Ferrure Rationnelle des Chevaux
Comments: "The Rational Shoeing of Horses"


Year Published: 1908
Author: Oliphant, George Henry Hewit
Title: The Law of Horses, Including the Law of Innkeepers, Veterinary
-Surgeons &c., by George Henry Hewit Oliphant... 6th ed. By Clement
Elphinstone Lloyd...and the veterinary portion revised by F. T. Barton
Comments:


Year Published: 1908
Author: Jubin, L‚on
Title: La Fourbure du Pied de Cheval (ThŠse)
Comments: A thesis on founder.


Year Published: 1908
Author: Curot, Edmond
Title: La Ferrure de Course du Galopeur et du Trotteur au Haras et …
l'Entrainment. Anatomie. Physiologie. HygiŠne. Pathologie du Pied.
Pr‚face de Fr‚d‚ric Chapard
Comments: "Shoeing the Runner and Trotter at the Stud Farm and in
Training. Anatomy. Physiology. Hygiene. Pathology of the Foot."


Year Published: 1909
Author: Duchosal, Franz
Title: Le Keraphyllocele du Pied du Cheval (ThŠse Inaugurales)
Comments: A thesis on keraphylocele of the hoof.


Year Published: 1909
Author: U.S., Mounted Service School
Title: The Army Horse in Accident and Disease, A Manual Prepared for the
use of Students of the Training School for Farriers and Horseshoers by the
Training School Instructors 1909
Comments: Veterinarian Alexander Plummer was the writer of each edition,
assisted by various other veterinarians. In dealing with hoof diseases
and hoof physiology they make the common mistakes of promoting expansion
of the hoof, and the application of external moisture to the wall. Note
that the title says Farriers and Horseshoers--they were not the
same.


Year Published: 1909
Author: Thary, Claude tienne Augustin
Title: Manuel de la Ferrure du Cheval
Comments: "Manual of Horseshoeing"


Year Published: 1909
Author: Baker, A. H.
Title: Livestock Encyclopedia
Comments: The 1912 edition was 1378p. and contained 595 pages on horses,
including some worthwile information on shoeing.


Year Published: 1909
Author: Knauer, P.
Title: Beitrag zur Statik und Mechanik des Hufbeins
Comments: "Contribution to the Statics and Mechanics of Coffin Bones"


Year Published: 1909
Author: Delp‚rier, Paul
Title: Manuel du Mar‚chal Ferrant: comment on forge le fer … cheval
Comments: Pady says: "An iron-forger's manual, this illustrated text shows
what tools are necessary for effective horseshoe making techniques, how
these tools are best used, and the principles of forging design to produce
well-fitting horseshoes."


Year Published: 1909
Author: Shaw, Vero Kemball
Title: The Encyclopaedia of the Stable: a complete Manual of the Horse,
its Breeds, Anatomy, Physiology, Diseases, Breeding, Breaking, Training,
and Management, with Articles on Harness, Farriery, Carriages, etc.
Comments: Pady says: "Written to inform the uninitiated horsesman and to
assist those who indulge in the pleasure of possessing a stable of their
own."


Year Published: 1910
Author: Ehlers, R. F.
Title: Ein Beitrag zur Histologie des Hufknorpels vom Pferde. [Giessen.]
Comments: "A Contribution to the Histology of Hoof Cartilages of the
Horse."


Year Published: 1910
Author: Zier, M.
Title: Die Hornspalten des Pferdehufes und ihre Vererbung
Comments: "Hoof Cracks of Horse's Hoofs and their Inheritance"


Year Published: 1910
Author: Kember, A.
Title: Questions and Answers on Shoeing and the Foot of the Horseby A.
Kember F.W.C.F.
Comments:


Year Published: 1910
Author: Anstey, W. Jones
Title: The Evils of Toes and Heels. Lecture delivered at the Royal Show
at Liverpool, 1910
Comments: I haven't seen this, but Anstey's advice is generally sound.
Toes and heels refers to toe caulks and heel caulks used to provide more
traction for horses, however, they rarely are of much benefit, are
completely unsuitable on many surfaces, and in some instances can be
severely injurious to the horse. A great deal of risk for very little
benfit.


Year Published: 1910
Author: P., P.
Title: The Farriers' Annual
Comments: I'm a bit lost on this one. Grimshaw notes that the "Farriers'
Annual" was first published in 1910, and the British Museum catalog lists
it in 1910. However, I don't find any other listings for it in other
years. I'm uncertain if that was the only time it was published, and I'm
uncertain who wrote, or edited, and published it.


Year Published: 1910
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: Shoeing of a Horse, Mule, or Ox
Comments: Book in Print listed this under the subject heading of
horseshoeing. They did not list an author or date, but did list the price
as $2 -- I believe Holmstr”m and Russell's books each sold for $1 at that
time, so I assume this was a substantial book, from a reputable publisher
-- odd that I have not run across it elsewhere.


Year Published: 1910
Author: Rossi, Luigi
Title: Relazione al Corso di Mascalcia Rurale Tenuto in Piadena per i
Fabbre Ferraturi de Cavalli
Comments:


Year Published: 1910
Author: Moorman, L. J.
Title: Horseshoers Manual & Reference Book
Comments: Bill Miller notes: "...is a list of 'Master Horse-Shoers of
Chicago and Vicinity.' It contains a lot of advertising and about 25
pages on `information of value to horse-shoers.'


Year Published: 1910
Author: Jordan, Rudolf, Jr.
Title: The Gait of the American Trotter and Pacer, An Analysis of Their
Gait by a New Method and an Investigation of the General Principles
Concerning the Proper Balancing of Motion, Action, and Extension
Comments: He may have been a keen observer, and must have been a
connoisseur--he also wrote "Quality in Dry Wines Through Adequate
Fermentation...". Doug Butler (AFJ 12(3):28) notes that Jordan, in this
book, was the first to systematically study the effect of hoof angle on
the stride length of horses.NUC--DLC;


Year Published: 1910
Author: Maille, G.
Title: La ferrure … ‚ponges minces, avec nomenclature de vingt-deux fers
rationnels … ‚ponges minces et … ajusture inverse. par G. Maille, chef
d'atelier des forges … l'cole nationale v‚t‚rinaire d'Alfort.
Comments: "Shoeing with thin sponges, with the names of 22 rational shoes
with thin sponges and inverse adjusture. by G. Maille, head of the shop
forges at the national veterinary school of Alfort."Yale notes it has 3
pages of bibliography.


Year Published: 1910
Author: Schwendimann, Fritz
Title: Leitfaden des Hufbeschlages; Hrsg. im Auftrage und mit
Unterstuetzung der direktion des innern des kantons Bern
Comments: "Guidelines for Horseshoeing. Issued by Orders and with
Contribution and direction of the inner kantons of Bern."


Year Published: 1911
Author: Hamilton, Edward Seeley
Title: The Stable Manual and Horse Doctor, 4th ed.
Comments: Pady says: "A complete practical guide in horse buying,
management, feeding, conditioning, testing, vice-remedying, riding,
driving, shoeing, breeding, and doctoring, etc."


Year Published: 1911
Author: Horse Sense Pub. Co.,
Title: Horse Sense [includes "Shoeing" by William Dickson]
Comments: The book contains chapters on various subjects, driving,
dentistry, feeding, shoeing, etc., by various authors. The chapter on
shoeing is 34 pages.


Year Published: 1911
Author: Troy Chemical Co.,
Title: How to Determine and Treat Lameness and Unsoundness in Horses
Comments:


Year Published: 1911
Author: Lotze, H. K.
Title: Untersuchungen ber die Beugesehnen am Fusse des Pferdes.
Comments: "Studies on the tendons of the foot of the horse."


Year Published: 1911
Author: McDonald, Alexander Hugh Earl
Title: ...Blacksmithing for Farmers, by A.H.E. McDonald... with Notes on
Horseshoeing by T.G. Palgrave... (New South Wales Department of
Agriculture Farmers Bulletin No. 46)
Comments:


Year Published: 1911
Author: Scratchley, V. H. S.
Title: Notes on Shoeing for Horse Owners
Comments: Robin Bledsoe notes: "Outlines what the careful owner should
watch for at the forge, together with more detailed notes taken from books
of the day. Treats the normal foot only. The author was a captain in the
60th Rifles."


Year Published: 1911
Author: Schulze, M. C. G.
Title: Untersuchungen ber das Wachstum des Hufhorns der Pferde unter
Bercksichtigung des Einflusses „usserer und innerer Reize
Comments: "Studies on the Growth of Hoof horns of Horses under
Consideration of the Influence of external and internal stimulants"


Year Published: 1911
Author: Hill, A. A.
Title: Geschichte des Hufbeschlags. Aus dem Englishen bersetzt und mit
Zus„tzen und Erl„uterungen versehen von E. Paul
Comments: "History of Horseshoeing"


Year Published: 1912
Author: Tasset, Jules Charles
Title: Trait‚ pratique de mar‚chalerie; … l'usage des mar‚chaux,
v‚t‚rinaires, officiers mont‚s, hommes de cheval.
Comments: "Practical Treatise of Horseshoeing; for the use of farriers,
veterinarians, cavalry officers, and horsesmen"


Year Published: 1912
Author: Brockwitz, E. K.
Title: Die Aetiologie und Therapie der Hornspalten am Fusse des Pferdes im
Wandel der Zeiten.
Comments: "The etiology and therapy of hoof cracks in horses over the
course of time"


Year Published: 1912
Author: Anstey, W. Jones
Title: The Horse's Foot and How to Shoe It: A Lecture Delivered at the
Royal Show at Gloucester, 1909 by W. Jones Anstey, A.F.C.L., 3rd ed.
Comments: Anstey was president of the National Master Farriers' Assoc.
Sound advice: "Like varnish acts as a protection to wood, so does the
varnish-like structure [periople] form a protection to the horn of the
wall. ...together with the fine horn tubules covering the outer
surface.... ...the application of grease, oil, tar, and all such
abominations is harmful. The proper care of the wall is best carried out
by leaving it alone and keeping it clean."Anstey was also lecturer in
farriery at Leeds University and the Manchester Technical Schools. NICE
BOOKLET!


Year Published: 1912
Author: Horn, Friedrich Johannes
Title: ...šber den Žltesten Hufschutz des Pferdes. (Ein Beitrag zur
Geschicte des Hufbeschlages)[inaug. diss.]
Comments: "About the oldest hoof protection for horses. (A contribution
to the history of horseshoeing)"


Year Published: 1912
Author: Churchill, Frank Gordon
Title: Practical and Scientific Horseshoeing
Comments: Churchill, who was a civilian, began as an assistant
horseshoeing instructor at Ft. Riley in 1905 under Dr. Eugene A. Dowd,
then in 1907 when Dr. Dowd resigned, Churchill became the head
horseshoeing instructor, and may have remained so until it closed in 1948.
Although he says in the introduction "A great many publications have been
consulted during the preparation of the text." he only names 2--both army
instruction books.


Year Published: 1912
Author: Shaiffer, Harry D.
Title: Evolution of the Horse Shoe, Horseshoeing without Nails vs.
Horseshoeing with Nails; by H. D. Shaiffer
Comments: Shaiffer mentions Xenophon, and Fiaschi, among others, but he
freely mixes his delusions with facts, making the whole rather difficult
to read: "Surrounding these bones is what we call the lainar, connected
with the Katofalous or horny external hoof. This external hoof is porous
and absorbs the moisture of the air, especially the oxygen which feeds it
and passes on into the internal foot." [no doubt connected to the lungs by
air passages]He also claims: "Every intelligent man trusts that the day is
not far distant when the Legislatures of the several States will enact
laws making it a crime to drive nails into the hood of a horse. ...An
eminent veterinarian asserts that 'fully 90 per cent. of diseases to which
horseflesh is heir, can be traced to the driving of nails into the hoof.'"
[I bet David Seigler read this.]


Year Published: 1913
Author: Piesse, A. C.
Title: Lameness in Horses, Its Detection, Cause & Treatment
Comments:


Year Published: 1913
Author: G”rte, C.
Title: Leitfaden des Hufbeschlages fr die Schmiede der berittenen
Truppen. von C. G”rte, Oberstabsveterin„r und Inspizient an der
Milit„r-Veterin„r-Akademie. Dritte Auflage. Mit 80 Abbildungen.
Comments: "Guideline of horseshoeing for the cavalry smith. 3rd ed."


Year Published: 1913
Author: Grunth, P.
Title: Beslaglaere
Comments: Farriery


Year Published: 1913
Author: P”ntzsch, Heinrich Paul
Title: Der Steckgriffbeschlag, ein Hufschutzmittel im Winter, seine
Entwickelung sowie seine Vorteile und Nachteile fr das Pferd[inaug.
diss.]
Comments: "The "Steckgriff-shoe", a hoof protection product in winter, its
development as well as its advantages and disadvantages for the horse"


Year Published: 1914
Author: Beltr n, Luis A.
Title: Manual del Herrador Militar. Por el Dr. Luis A. Beltr n
Comments: "Military Farrier's Manual."


Year Published: 1914
Author: Heuser, George William
Title: The Horse's Friend
Comments: This is basically a self-promotion: "If you want the opportunity
of seeing these things [correction of all manner of crookedness and
interferences] done I will show you at your expense...." and "The horse
owner who will study these directions can go to the horseshoer and tell
him how to shoe his horse so as to get the results that he has been
looking for." Promises, promises.


Year Published: 1914
Author: Bernard, Andr‚ Jacques Hippolyte
Title: ...Le Pied Bot Varus quin Cong‚nital. tude G‚n‚rale.
Th‚rapeutiques Diverses Conduite … Tenir en Presence d'un Pied Bot...
Comments: This is a thesis on congenital club foot, which I found while
looking for works by a Bernard, mentioned by Fleming. Unfortunately,
after finding 2 more similar works which were about human club foot
(Fernand Monod, "Traitement chirurgical du pied bot varus ‚quin
cong‚nital...", 1901; and Louis Lapeyre, "De l'anatomie du pied bot varus
equin et de son traitement par la tarsectomie.", 1895), I suspect this one
is also about humans.NUC-CtY; DNLM;


Year Published: 1915
Author: M”ller, Heinrich
Title: Hufpflege, Huffschutz und -Beschlag
Comments: "Hoof care, hoof protection, and shoes"


Year Published: 1915
Author: Timmis, Reginald Symonds
Title: Modern Horse Management
Comments: The 4th edition has 17 pages on the foot and shoeing. There is
much good advice, however, many of the same old errors have again
appeared: moistening the hoof wall; the physiology of heel expansion,
and a 45 to 50 degree angle. These errors are not as prominent here as
they are in many other books, and there is much sound advice that seems to
have come through experience. Grimshaw says the "edition of 1915 was
undoubtedly the best."


Year Published: 1915
Author: U.S., War Department
Title: Manual for Farriers, Horseshoers, Saddlers and Wagoners or
Teamsters. 1914. (U.S. War Dept. Doc. #486)
Comments: I was curious to know how the duties and definitions of farriers
and horseshoers differed. The farrier was responsible for the overall
health of the horses, as well as their shoeing. He carried surgical
equipment, drugs (including extract of cannabis), and emergency
horseshoeing tools (including a jointed horseshoe, which could be roughly
fit without the use of an anvil). The regular shoeing was carried out by
the horseshoer. The horseshoers' equipment contained both forge and light
anvil, and a clinch block, but not clinching tongs, or clinchers. For
treatment of "dry hoofs" they recommend "the animal should be stood in
water for several hours a day..." (p. 50) -- compare that with Xenophon
(380 BC)!


Year Published: 1915
Author: Illinois,
Title: An Act For the Regulation of the Business of Horseshoeing
(Approved June 28, 1915; In force July 1, 1915)
Comments: The original requirements for obtaining a license to shoe horses
in Illinois included: "...a certificate from a reputable veterinary
surgeon showing that he understands the anatomy of a horse's limb and
foot, that he has studied and practiced the trade of horseshoeing for a
period of three years as a Horseshoer under a practicing Horseshoer...."
also "Nothing in this Act shall prohibit any person from serving as an
apprenticein said trade under a Horseshoer having a certificate of
registration and authorized to practice under the provisions of this Act."
See also Illinois, 1922, and 1981.


Year Published: 1916
Author: Gl„sel, M.
Title: Zur Architektur des Hufbeines und seiner physiologischen
Transformation.
Comments: "The architecture of coffin bones and their physiological
transformation."


Year Published: 1916
Author: Morris,
Title: Practical Hints in the Making of Army Horseshoes
Comments:


Year Published: 1916
Author: Hayden, W. F.
Title: Questions and Answers on the Anatomy, Physiology and the Principles
of Shoeing the Horse's Foot
Comments:


Year Published: 1916
Author: Coust‚, H.
Title: Mechanics Applied to the Race Horse. (Une Foul‚e de Galop de
Course) Second Edition. With a Study of the Construction and Functions of
the Hind Legs. Replies to Criticisms. by Colonel H. Coust‚ translated by
E.B. Cassatt
Comments: Deals with the destructive changes in the conformation of
Thoroughbreds due to the effects on breeding and selection from shortening
of the race courses. "The magnificent action of this steeplechaser is
evidently due... to the length of his femur, which allows him to resume
contact with the ground further under the center of gravity... to the
absolute exceptional play of his loin which... is a little too long..."


Year Published: 1916
Author: Clark, James [U.S.]
Title: Shoeing and Balancing the Light Harness Horse
Comments: This is not the James Clark of Edinburgh, as he mentions in the
Intro that he is on the staff of "Horse World", and says it is written
"more for the beginners, the shoer, owner or trainer, than for the
experienced...."[?] It does contain some good advice from honest
experience: "Do not depend too much on the foot adjuster [gauge].... The
best foot leveler in use today is the trained mechanical eye, with a
common-sense indicator behind it."


Year Published: 1916
Author: Lacroix, John Victor
Title: Lameness of the Horse by J. V. Lacroix, D.V.S. Professor of
Surgery, the Kansas City Veterinary College, author of "Animal Castration"
Illustrated(Veterinary Practioner's Series No. 1)
Comments: Many of Lacroix's excellent anatomical drawings, especially the
ones showing the bones of the legs with the ligaments still in place, were
used later by O. R. Adams, 1962 (q.v.).


Year Published: 1916
Author: Moore, William J.
Title: Treatise [on] Balancing and Shoeing Trotting and Pacing Horses. by
Wm. J. Moore, Allen Farm, Pittsfield, Mass. New England's Greatest
Nursery of Speed [the book's cover reads "The Art of Shoeing Horses"]
Comments: The date of 1916 can be determined from facts given in the
intro: he started at age 16 and has been shoeing for 35 years. My guess
would be that this was not written by a shoer, but instead written by the
farm owners to promote the farm: listed on the title page as "Allen Farm,
Pittsfield, Mass New England's Greatest Nursery of Speed". It is filled
with many errors, and the point of view of an observer, and novice, not an
experienced shoer.Yet, it is not totally without merit: "Paddling is
caused by the contraction of muscles on one side of the leg, the same as
winging in, and not always by bad shoeing...." (p33)


Year Published: 1916
Author: Petersen, Louis
Title: Statement of Truth and Scientific Facts
Comments: "Written with the object to prevent lame horses, divorces, and
wars. In it is explained the cause of the European War, and how some
speedy horses may be shod to go faster." "I often wonder why this
United States has not got laws like they have in Germany, where the
horseshoer has to pass an examination before he can operate a shoeing
business.... In Germany a Master Horseshoer is highly respected....
Here... a tramp can run out of a corn fieldand start a horseshoeing
business." Also: "Horseshoers can only hope to stop horses from
interfering when the footing becomes firm and level. Aside from that, a
horse must be in good condition, he must not be driven until he gets tired
and leg-weary. If these conditions are not favorable, there is no shoe of
any description that will prevent interfering...."


Year Published: 1917
Author: Schwyter, Hermann
Title: Le Mar‚chal Ferrant Militaire Suisse, par H. Schwyter. Traduction
par Adrien Louis Ramelet
Comments: "The Swiss Military Farrier"


Year Published: 1917
Author: U. S. Army,
Title: Manual for Stable Sergeants 1917
Comments: This contains no shoeing information, but is of interest as
previous to this time farriers were responsible for the general management
of the horses as well as their shoeing--they were known as farrier
sergeants -- automatically having that rank with their duties according to
tradition that began long before the army employed veterinarians. By
1917, veterinarians were automatically lieutenants, and farriers were
being called shoers.


Year Published: 1917
Author: Hustig, K. M.
Title: Beitrag zur Therapie des Hufkrebses mit besonderer Bercksichtigung
der operativen Methode
Comments: "Contribution to the Therapy of Hoof Canker with practical
consideration to operative methods"


Year Published: 1918
Author: Straunard, R.
Title: La Fourbure du Cheval
Comments: "Founder"


Year Published: 1918
Author: Schwyter, Hermann
Title: Der schweizerische Milit„r-Hufschmied. 3te Aufl.
Comments: "The Swiss Military Horseshoer"


Year Published: 1918
Author: American Steel & Wire Co.,
Title: Manual of Horseshoeing and Catalogue of Juniata Horse Shoes and
Calks / Packed in Kegs With Red Heads
Comments: The booklet explains the process by which they manufactured
shoes.


Year Published: 1918
Author: Friez, Fernand
Title: Le br‚viaire du mar‚chal ferrant
Comments: "The horseshoer's bible"


Year Published: 1918
Author: Hasenkamp,
Title: "Der neue Hufbeschlag" (Wie sollen wir unsere Pferde beschlagen
lassen und wie k”nnen wir Hufkrankheiten verhten und heilen?) Nebst
Anhang: Hufpflege.
Comments: "'The new horseshoeing' (How should we shoe our horses and how
could we prevent and heal hoof diseases?) With an appendix: Hoof care."


Year Published: 1918
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: Voorschrift hoefbeslag.
Comments: "Prescription horseshoeing"


Year Published: 1919
Author: Smith, Frederick
Title: The Early History of Veterinary Literature and its British
Development
Comments: The best source of additional information on the majority of
pre-1800 writers on farriery, and the horse's foot. Also see Smith, 1976.


Year Published: 1919
Author: Kroon, Henri Margarethus
Title: Hoefkunde en Hoefbeslag / H. M. Kroon en R. H. J. Gallandat Huet
Comments: "Hoof Knowledge and Horseshoeing"


Year Published: 1919
Author: Lavalard, E.
Title: La Mar‚chalerie
Comments: "Farriery"


Year Published: 1920
Author: Timmis, Reginald Symonds
Title: Lameness in Horses and the Treatment of Injuries
Comments:


Year Published: 1920
Author: Savage, H. M.
Title: Evolution of the Horseshoe - Vet. Suplm. to Army Medical Bull. (V/6
N/2 p10-11, Nov. 24)
Comments:


Year Published: 1920
Author: Bergman, A. M.
Title: Hovbeslagsl„ra / A. M. Bergman och A. P†lman -- 4. uppl.
Comments:


Year Published: 1920
Author: Kroon, Henri Margarethus
Title: Catalogus van het Museum voor Hoefkunde
Comments:


Year Published: 1920
Author: H”ssler, G.
Title: Beitr„ge zur Geschichte der Behandlung der aseptischen chronischen
Hufgelenkslahmheit, Podotrochlitis chronica aseptica
Comments: "Contributions to the History of the Treatment of aseptic
chronic hoof-joint lameness, Podotrochlitis chronica aseptica [i.e.
navicular disease]"


Year Published: 1920
Author: Great Britian, Board of Trade, Std. Com. on Trusts
Title: Profiteering Act, 1919. Findings by a committee appointed to
enquire into the existance of a combine in the farriery trade...
Comments: The Library of Congress notes that John Hilton was the chairman
of the Farriery Subcommittee, however, on two separate visits I was unable
to get a look at this booklet.


Year Published: 1921
Author: Uhlemann, E. M.
Title: Zur Behandlung des Hufkrebses mit Neosalvarsan.
Comments: "Treatment of Hoof Canker with Neosalvarsan."


Year Published: 1921
Author: MacQueen, J.
Title: Fleming's Practical Horse-Shoeing, Eleventh Edition revised and
edited by J. MacQueen, F.R.C.V.S. Professor at the Royal Veterinary
College, London... (Reprinted)
Comments: "Regarding the functions of the horse's foot--such as the
descent of the sole, ...and the expansion of the back parts of the hoof
every time weight is imposed upon it. ...these notions are at least
extremely exaggerated and that the practices which were maintained to
facilitate these supposed functions have been productive of an immense...
suffering."
Dollar (1898) and Reeks (1906) each dedicated their book to MacQueen.


Year Published: 1922
Author: Mattinson, Arthur Bowman
Title: Hunting's Art of Horseshoeing
Comments:


Year Published: 1922
Author: Ogilvie, W. H.
Title: Galloping Shoes
Comments: As I haven't seen this book, it might even be a novel, but the
books in the Phenotype catlogs are predominately nonfiction.


Year Published: 1922
Author: B„urle, O.
Title: Die Eckstrebe des Pferdehufes. (Auszug.)
Comments: "The Buttresses of Horse Hoofs."


Year Published: 1922
Author: Illinois,
Title: ...Horseshoers' Law / Springfield / 1922
Comments:


Year Published: 1922
Author: Kroon, Henri Margarethus
Title: Cursussen in hoefbeslag. Voordracht, gehouden... te Utrecht op 8
Juli 1922... met de gehouden discussie.
Comments: "Courses in horseshoeing. Presentation held... at Utrecht on 8
July 1922... with a discussion."


Year Published: 1923
Author: Fr‚mont, Charles
Title: La Forge-Mar‚chale
Comments: "The Shoer's Shop"


Year Published: 1923
Author: Schwerdtfeger, Paul
Title: šber Zehenrichtung. [inaug. diss. Berlin]
Comments: "On Toe Direction"


Year Published: 1923
Author: Thongthikhayu Thongyai, M. C.
Title: Tamra waduai suam kuakma
Comments: Yale says this is on horseshoeing -- I wasn't able to determine
in what language it is written.


Year Published: 1923
Author: Great Britain, War Office
Title: Animal Management
Comments: Robin Bledsoe notes this is an army manual on the care and
management of the horse, with 30 pages on the foot and shoeing.


Year Published: 1923
Author: Nyffenegger, A.
Title: Die Behandlung des sogenannten Hufkrebses mit Plumbum nitricum.
Comments: "The Treatment of so-called Hoof Canker with Plumbum nitricum [a
lead compound]."


Year Published: 1924
Author: Allarousse,
Title: Manuel du Mar‚chal-Ferrant
Comments: "Horseshoer's Manual"


Year Published: 1924
Author: Wessel, Fredy
Title: Zur Bewertung der Paro-Strickhufeisen. [inaug. diss.]
Comments: "The Evaluation of 'Paro-Strick' Horseshoes."


Year Published: 1925
Author: Carel, F. F. A.
Title: La parure rationnelle du pied du cheval.
Comments: "The rational trimming of the foot of the horse."


Year Published: 1925
Author: Gaudin, Robert
Title: ...Le Mar‚chal-ferrant. (essai de monographie professionnelle.)
ThŠse.
Comments: This has a 3 page bibliography.


Year Published: 1925
Author: Leblois, Charles
Title: Cin‚matique et Dynamique Chez le Cheval (Diagnostic du Membre
Boiteux)
Comments: A method of diagnoising lamenesses using motion pictures.


Year Published: 1925
Author: Brose, Otto
Title: Beitrag zur Geschichte des Hufbeschlages auf Grund eigener
Hufeisenfunde in Sdwestdeutschland [inaug. diss.]
Comments: "The History of Horsehoeing and Horseshoes in SW Germany"


Year Published: 1925
Author: Franc, M.
Title: Mar‚chalerie. Fers pathologiques dits "fers incomplets."
Indications; leurs bons effets dans l'encastelure.
Comments: "Horseshoeing. Pathological shoes called "incomplete shoes"
Indications; their good effects on contracted hoofs."


Year Published: 1925
Author: Larieux, E. L. C.
Title: L'Encastelure (atrophie du pied) et son traitement.
Comments: "Hoof Contraction (atrophy of the foot) and its treatment."


Year Published: 1925
Author: Merlin, J. M.
Title: Contributions … l'‚tude de la ferrure amortissante. ThŠse.
Comments: "Contributions to the study of cushioned shoeing."


Year Published: 1925
Author: Peillon, A.
Title: Trait‚ de la Mar‚chalerie Rationnelle et Pratique. Jurisprudence
Professionnelle.
Comments: Apparently this also deals with legal responsibilities of
farriers?


Year Published: 1925
Author: Fleck, O. R.
Title: Vergleichende Untersuchungen ber die Knochenstuktur zwischen dem
flachen und dem normalen Hufbein.
Comments: "Comparative examinations on the bone structure between the flat
and the normal coffin bone"


Year Published: 1925
Author: Messler, J. G. E.
Title: Die Hornspalten des Pferdes und ihre Behandlung mit besonderer
Bercksichtigung einer neuen, auf Erweiterung der Hufkapsel beruhenden
Methode.
Comments: "The hoof cracks of horses and their treatment with special
consideration of a new method based on enlarging the hoof capsule."


Year Published: 1925
Author: Garlt, H. W. O.
Title: Untersuchungen ber das Verhalten von Strahlhorn gegenber
chemischen Agentien; ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Strahlf„ule.
Comments: "Examinations about the reaction of frog horn to chemical
agents; a contribution to the knowledge of thrush"


Year Published: 1925
Author: Jarvis, Reynold F.
Title: Blacksmithing on the Farm [by Reynold F. Jarvis and Cornelius
Abbott]
Comments: James Fleming notes: "A good section on forging a horseshoe with
crude but understandable drawings of the important steps is followed by a
discussion of the anatomy of the horse's foot and corrective shoeing."


Year Published: 1926
Author: Bossi, Virginio
Title: Il Trattato di Mascalcia
Comments: "The Treatise on Farriery"


Year Published: 1926
Author: Pride, W. F.
Title: The History of Fort Riley
Comments: "Under provisions of G.O.115, Series 1902, A.G.O., a Training
School for Farriers and Blacksmiths is established at this post in
connection with the School of Application for Cavalry and Field
Artillery." For the first classes "There was no school shop. Shoes were
prepared in troop blacksmith shops after which, horses, shoes and students
met in the basement of Waters Hall where the actual shoeing was done.
There were no forges in Waters Hall."


Year Published: 1926
Author: Churchill, Frank Gordon
Title: American Methods of Horseshoeing / Frank G. Churchill Senior
Instructor in Horseshoeing, Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kansas
Comments: This book is very similar to "Practical and Scientific
Horseshoeing" 1912--and might be considered simply a new edition. To my
knowledge, Churchill was the first to propose the frog as the best
landmark for balancing a foot (p59). Indeed, the frog is the most
reliable, and constant indicator for balance because it is indirectly
attached to the deep digital flexor and coffin bone--all other landmarks
are variable and unreliable.He had ads from Capewell; Northwestern
horsenail mfg. by Fowler & Union Horse Nail Co.; Phoenix Horseshoes (used
by the U.S. Army); United States Horse Shoe Co.; and Champion; [Heller
Bros. and Revere Rubber Co. are advertised in the 1912 book, but not this
one]


Year Published: 1926
Author: Andrade, Ruy d'
Title: Apontamentos para um estudo sobre a origem e domestica‡ao do
cavallo na peninsula Hiberica, aproxima‡oes / Ruy d'Andrade
Comments: The Library of Congress had this cataloged under the subject of
horsehoeing.


Year Published: 1927
Author: Weston, George
Title: The Horseshoe Nails
Comments: NUC-DLC;


Year Published: 1927
Author: Smith, Frederick
Title: A History of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps 1796 - 1919
Comments:


Year Published: 1927
Author: Utrecht Rijksuniversiteit,
Title: Catalogus van de Bibliotheek der Veeartsenijkundige Faculteit
Comments: This catalog of the veterinary books at the Utrecht University
library has a 10 page section of books on horseshoeing.


Year Published: 1927
Author: Fischer, Arthur
Title: Der Fuss des Pferdes, 13th auflage
Comments: "The Foot of the Horse, 13th ed." This is the 13th edition (and
the last to my knowledge) of the same textbook begun by Leisering and
Hartman, 1861 (q.v.).Fischer wrote extensively about cattle hoofs.


Year Published: 1927
Author: McLellan, Charles Arthur
Title: The Art of Shoeing and Balancing the Trotter
Comments: On the subject of side-weighted shoes he says: "It is the common
belief that weight in the outside web of a side-weight shoe makes a horse
carry wide behind. ...in my opinion the effect of the difference in weight
of the two sides of a side-weight shoe upon the direction which the foot
will take in its flight would be of slight consequence. But the
side-weight shoe has stopped a great many horses from interfering behind
so they must havetraveled wider with than without that shoe. ...Now one
may well ask if it is not the weight, what is it? I will explain. The
side-weight shoe is much wider on the outside web than on the inside
web.... The consequence is that when nailed to the hind foot it has the
same effect as raising the outside wall of the hoof [or preventing the
outside wall from sinking in the dirt]...."(p93)


Year Published: 1927
Author: Asmus, Henry
Title: Farm Horseshoeing (USDA Bulletin 1535) by Henry Asmus and J. O.
Williams
Comments: The USDA was responsible for the 1927 and 1958 printings, the
1935 one was by Asmus at Cornell. Telleen, quotes most of the material in
"The Draft Horse Primer" (q.v.). "The colt should have abundant exercise
on dry ground." "A vitamin A deficiency often accompanies abnormal hoof
growth." "Observe the standing position of the legs from the side. If
the leg is placed too far forward it is an indication that the toe is too
long."


Year Published: 1928
Author: Bitte, H.
Title: ...Pareiza Zirgu Apkalsana un nagu Kopsana...
Comments: "...Correct Horse Shoeing and hoof care..." One of 3 Latvian
books on horseshoeing at the National Agricultural Library.


Year Published: 1928
Author: Holmes, Charles Martin
Title: The Principles and Practice of Horse-Shoeing. A Text Book on
Horse- Shoeing by Charles M. Holmes, F.W.C.F. Fellow, Member, Associate
and Freeman of the W.C.F....Member of the Registration Committee and
Board...etc.
Comments: This is clearly a book written by someone who not only has
studied, but experienced what he writes about. He is the first I'm aware
of to write of "over-expansion"--"It is not uncommon to find grooves worn
in the heels of the shoes as a result of the continuous movement of the
foot upon the shoe. ...on removing the shoes one can easily open the
medium lacuna of the frog a quarter of an inch or even more."


Year Published: 1929
Author: Huret, A.
Title: Variations sur le pied du cheval. Trois conf‚rences faites … des
v‚t‚rinaires par un v‚t‚rinaire.
Comments: "Variations of the foot of the horse...."


Year Published: 1929
Author: Saaristo, H. J.
Title: Zur Behandlung der Strahlf„ule mit Vasenoloform.
Comments: "The Treatment of Thrush with Vasenoloform."


Year Published: 1929
Author: Anstey, W. Jones
Title: The Care of the Horse. by Professor W. Jones Anstey, F.W.C.F.,
F.Z.S. A series of Talks delivered by the Author from Leeds Station of
the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Comments: It is really nice to see in print the words of someone with many
years of true experience under a horse. Sound practical advice: "Every
nail hole driven into the horn is permanent, it never grows together, but
has to grow out as the hoof grows down, so that driving nails and pulling
them out to get a level line is bad practice. If driven into sound horn,
leave them, even if one is half an inch higher than
another...."interesting stuff on the history of the horse and the history
and rank of horseshoers, also some items about the conditions of that time
period - and, oddly, some optimisim about the return of the horse...


Year Published: 1930
Author: Cinotti, Felice
Title: Podologia
Comments: The date may be way off--NAL listed it as 19__?


Year Published: 1930
Author: Maser, Max
Title: El Taller y la Industria. Manual Teorico-Practico para Herradores
y Forjadores...
Comments:


Year Published: 1930
Author: Plantureux, M.
Title: Appui et parer du pied; ferrure des pieds d‚fectueux[Alfort]
Comments: "Supporting and trimming the foot; shoeing defective feet"


Year Published: 1930
Author: Muszar, A.
Title: Beitrag zur Anatomie und Pathologie des Hufbeins, insbesondere der
Hufbein„ste.
Comments: "Contribution to the Anatomy and Pathology of Coffin Bones,
especially the coffin bone branches [wings of the cofffin bone]."


Year Published: 1930
Author: Akerblom, Eric Nathanael
Title: Untersuchungen ber den Hufmechanismus des Pferdes
Comments: "Studies on Horse's Hoof mechanism"Pady says: "Resonance
responses of electrical signals sent through a horse's hoof reveal
structurally damaged feet. These defective areas can then be treated with
corrective horseshoes which will ensure effective strengthening of
abnormal hoof structures."


Year Published: 1930
Author: Churchill, Frank Gordon
Title: Notes on Horseshoeing and Horseshoeing Catechism
Comments: The date is a guess, but as the book contains an advertisement
for "American Methods...",1926, but not "Horseshoeing", 1933, it would
seem to have been published between the two."High nailing destroys more
horn than is necessary for securing the shoe to the foot, and after a few
shoeings the wall is filled with holes, greatly reducing the strength of
the hoof. The clinches should be short, strong and smooth." (pg. 18)


Year Published: 1931
Author: Horn, K. W.
Title: Vergleichende Untersuchungen ber die Knochenstruktur zwischen dem
Bockhufbein und dem normalen Hufbein.
Comments: "Comparative examinations about the bone structure of
club-footed and normal coffin bones"


Year Published: 1932
Author: RSPCA, Scottish
Title: Some Observations on Horseshoeing: Hints to Owners
Comments:


Year Published: 1933
Author: Churchill, Frank Gordon
Title: Horseshoeing
Comments: This is probably much like Churchill, 1912, and 1926--and like
the 1926 version, still fewer pages than the previous version. I'm
assuming that this is essentially like his previous books, I haven't seen
it.


Year Published: 1933
Author: U.S., Chief of Field Artillery
Title: Elementary Mounted Instruction (Book 140)
Comments: After World War I, horses were no longer used for cavalry
units--instead, horses and mules were only used to haul field artillery
into position. For that reason, this book addresses the topic of
horseshoeing.


Year Published: 1934
Author: Moser, Erwin
Title: Leitfaden der Huf- und Klauenkrankheiten.
Comments: "Guidelines for Hoof and Claw Diseases."


Year Published: 1934
Author: Phoenix Horse Shoe Co.,
Title: Horseshoes and our Civilizations
Comments: H. R. Bradley Smith, 1966, quotes Phoenix: "Phoenix reveals that
about 1265 in England 'iron horseshoes were sold by the hundred and nails
by the thousands.... Most horseshoes used as early as the 13th and 14th
centuries were bought ready made.'" [Which turns out to have been taken
from Fleming, 1869, which he got from Rogers, 1866-1902]Phoenix states:
"With the Arab tribes, the farrier was held in great esteem. He enjoyed
extensive privileges... ...was permitted a separate tent... ...give a
share of all purchases and provisions... ...When an Arab tribe was
defeated in battle, the life of the smith was spared...." Phoenix also
mentions a "Hammermen's Corporation" -- an organization of farriers in
Scotland.


Year Published: 1934
Author: U.S., Nat'l Recovery Administration
Title: ...Code of Fair Competition for the Horseshoe and Allied Products
Manufacturing Industry as approved on March 8, 1934
Comments: I tried to get a look at this on two separate occasions, but it
was "not on the shelf" both times.


Year Published: 1935
Author: Pannicke, F. A. W.
Title: Auf welchen Grunds„tzen beruhen die verschiedenen
Nationalbeschl„ge?
Comments: "On which Principles rest the various National Horseshoeing
Methods?"


Year Published: 1935
Author: Latvia, Armijas Stabs
Title: ...Zirgu Apkalsanas Reglaments.
Comments:


Year Published: 1935
Author: Merillat, Louis Adolph
Title: Veterinary Military History of the United States
Comments: Pady says: "When the veterinary service was taken from the Army
Quartermaster Department and assigned to the Medical Department in 1916,
the need for an American Veterinary history was met with this
comprehensive review of the profession's details. This history includes
the entire account of the military-veterinary service of the U. S. from
the Revolutionary War to 1935."


Year Published: 1935
Author: Asmus, Henry
Title: Horseshoes of Interest to Veterinarians
Comments: There are 151 "different" horseshoes pictured in the 1946 ed.
with descriptions. Noteable is the "Asmus Navicular Shoe", an egg-bar
shoe with raised heels and a rolled toe. He suggests: "In fitting the
shoe place the bar back as far as possible, this will relieve direct
pressure on the navicular bone and joint." He also says it has proved
quite successful-- interesting that 50 years later Cornell was calling
this new and effective.How soon we forget.


Year Published: 1935
Author: Drew, James Meddick
Title: Blacksmithing
Comments: James Fleming notes: "this book offers one of the few treatments
available today of plowshare work, setting wagon tires, and horseshoeing."


Year Published: 1935
Author: Huth, Walter Wilhelm
Title: šber den Verlauf der Hufn„gel beim Hufbeschlag des Pferdes
[inaug. diss.]
Comments: "On the Course of the Horseshoe Nail in Shoeing Horses"


Year Published: 1936
Author: Stoste, K. V.
Title: Zirgu Apkalsana un nagu Kopsana 2.
Comments: "Horse Shoeing and hoof care 2nd ed."


Year Published: 1936
Author: Dietz, E. O. H.
Title: šber die Hornschwiele an der inneren Zehenwand der Hornkapsel des
Pferdes.
Comments: "On the horn swelling at the inner toe wall of the hoof capsule
of the horse"


Year Published: 1936
Author: Rosenkranz, M. G.
Title: Gleitschutz und Hufbeschlag im Wandel der Zeiten.
Comments: "Slide protection and Horseshoeing over the Course of Time."


Year Published: 1937
Author: Klema, E.
Title: Studies of Tonofibrils in the Hoof of Horses [diss.]
Comments:


Year Published: 1937
Author: B”tschi, O.
Title: Untersuchungen am Vorderfuss des Pferdes ber die Beanspruchung des
Beugesehnentragapparates des Hufes unter Bercksichtigung des
K”rpergewichtes und der Sehnenl„nge am unbeschlagenen und beschlagenen
Hufe
Comments: "Studies on the forehand of horses about the stress of the
flexor tendon apparatus of hoofs under consideration of the bodyweight and
the tendon length -- of the unshod and shod hoof"


Year Published: 1937
Author: Hirte, Fritz-Heinrich
Title: Kritische Untersuchungen ber die bisher šblichen Hufmessmethoden
[inaug. diss.]
Comments: "Critcal examinations about the best customary hoof measuring
[or paring] method"


Year Published: 1937
Author: J”chle, Hans
Title: Huf- und Klauenpflege. Von Dr. Hans J”chle... und Prof. Dr. Fritz
Stockklausner
Comments: "Hoof and Claw Care"--referring to horse hoofs and ox "claws".
Pady notes: "Mainly compiled for owners of horses that walk on pavement
and cobblestones, this pamphlet reveals the damage and correction to city
horses in Germany."


Year Published: 1938
Author: Barrier, Maurice
Title: Revue g‚n‚rale des ferrures contre les glissades, par Maurice
Barrier ... illustr‚ de 98 figures
Comments: "General review of anti-slip horseshoes"


Year Published: 1938
Author: Ogilvie, Max Heinrich Christian
Title: Versuche un Erfahrungen mit Gleitschutzvorrichtungen am Zehenteil
und an den Schenkelenden von Hufeisen Nach Hufbeschlaglehrmeister Henke.
[inaug. diss.]
Comments: "Trials and Experiments with Slide-protection devices at the Toe
and at the Ends of the Horseshoe. Following Master Horseshoer Henke."


Year Published: 1939
Author: Lang, Ernst M.
Title: Was ist die weisse Linie und in welcher Beziehung steht sie zum
praktischen Hufbeschlag? ...
Comments:


Year Published: 1939
Author: Frank, Edward Raymond
Title: Veterinary Surgery Notes
Comments: The first several editions were duplicated typewritten
manuscripts, and not given edition numbers. Later editions were titled
"Veterinary Surgery."


Year Published: 1939
Author: Ward, Gordon R.
Title: On Dating Old Horse Shoes(Hull Museum Publication No. 205)
Comments: Sparkes (1972) notes that "The collections [of old & ancient
horseshoes]... of Gordon Ward formed the basis of the display at the City
of Hull Museum."


Year Published: 1939
Author: Besterman, Theodore
Title: A World Bibliography of Bibliographies
Comments: The only horseshoeing bibliographies he had listed were the ones
from the patent office in Great Britian ("Abrigements of
Specifications. Class 67 Horse-Shoes. Patent Office." 1855, etc.).


Year Published: 1940
Author: Holmes, Charles Martin
Title: Shoeing by Tips to Prevent Slipping
Comments:


Year Published: 1940
Author: Bierer, Bert W.
Title: Short History of Veterinary Medicine in America
Comments: In keeping with the sentiment and interests of the times,
horseshoeing is overlooked. I could find no reference to, or mention of
horseshoeing in this book, and little else regarding horses' feet.


Year Published: 1940
Author: Bauer, Theodor
Title: Handbuch des Hufbeschlages.
Comments: "Handbook of Horseshoeing." Of the 6th edition, Pady says:
"Besides illustrating methods used to fashion the horseshoe to the shape
and comfort of the hoof, this handbook describes accepted ways to hold or
secure the horse...."


Year Published: 1941
Author: Meyer, Theodor
Title: Beitrag zur Geschichte des Hufbeschlages
Comments: Robin Bledsoe says this is a doctoral dissertaition on the
history of shoeing, with a long bibliography.


Year Published: 1942
Author: Alca¤iz-S iz, Juan
Title: Manual del Herrador, 2. ed. corregida y reformada por Juan
Permasse
Comments: "Farrier's Manual, 2nd ed."


Year Published: 1942
Author: Camp, Charles L.
Title: Phylogeny and Functions of the Digital Ligaments of the Horse
(Memoirs of the University of California, vol.13, no.2) / Charles L.
Camp & Natasha Smith
Comments: Robin Bledsoe describes this as a "Scholarly article on the
evolution and paleontology of the foot."


Year Published: 1943
Author: Phoenix Mfg. Co.,
Title: How to Care for the Feet of Your Horses and Mules
Comments: "Material in this booklet has been prepared after thorough study
of exhaustive treatises on shoeing issued by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
and Cornell U., NY. Aid and counsel has been obtained from Professor R.
S. Hudson, head of the Horse Dept. and John McAllen, master horseshoer at
the Michigan State College... Robert Falconer, long a master horseshoer in
Chicago, ed. of American Ironsmith...and Wayne Dinsmore...Horse & Mule
Assn."


Year Published: 1944
Author: Dinsmore, Wayne
Title: The Smithy Takes to the Road
Comments: This booklet was used to help promote the horseshoers use of
traveling rigs. The Horse & Mule Association was also instrumental in
lengthening the course of instruction at Michigan State University and
starting the course at California State Polytechnic Institute--at a time
when it seemed horses and horseshoeing had little future. He says most
traveling smiths charge from 5 to 10 cents per mile, and only work for
cash.In the preface, Robert Falconer says: "During my 17 years as Editor,
the subject of Traveling Blacksmiths has created a great deal of
discussion in the American Ironsmith [1930, q.v.]. The men who introduced
the traveling shops were at first severely condemned by many, who believed
that the blacksmith's place was in his shop at a fixed location. Today
this... has changed."


Year Published: 1945
Author: Akerblom, Eric Nathanael
Title: V†ra H„stars Hovv†rd
Comments: "Our Horses' Hoof Care"


Year Published: 1945
Author: Tew, Norwood Clayton
Title: The Safe and Scientific Method of Shoeing Horses and Mules and Care
of the Feet, Derived from Practical Experience. by Norwood Clayton Tew
"The Singing Blacksmith"
Comments: In the 1940's and early '50's many rural areas did not have
access to a farrier, but the local feed or hardware store would carry a
supply of horseshoes and nails. With no more than a little advice from
some friends, a little common sense and some carpentry tools, farmers and
cowboys would shoe their own horses. Tew explains: "How to Cut and Shape a
Horse's Shoe Cold Without the Aid of a Forge or Anvil: You take an
old...chopping axe..."


Year Published: 1946
Author: Richardson, Charles
Title: Hints on Shoeing the Hunter
Comments:


Year Published: 1947
Author: Shatalov, P. I.
Title: Kovka Loshadei
Comments: "Shoeing Horses"


Year Published: 1947
Author: Kuvakin, D. A.
Title: Rukovodstvo Dlia Podgotovki Kolkhoznogo Kuznetsa Izd. 2., Perer
Comments: "Handbook for preparing farriers for the collective farm"


Year Published: 1948
Author: Obel, Niles
Title: Studies on the Histopathology of Acute Laminitis [diss. Stockholm]
Comments:


Year Published: 1948
Author: Habacher, Ferdinand
Title: Der Huf- und Klauenbeschlag 8. Erweiterte und Verb. Aufl.
Comments: "Horse and Cattle Shoeing" Pady notes: "With specialized
emphasis on the construction dimension and proper mechanical advantage of
the horseshoe, the physiological functions of the hoof show dynamic
responses to proper or improper shoe fits." Comben's 1989 catalog notes
that this is the 8th edition and that it contains a historical
introduction and an account of the Hufbeschlagmuseum (Horseshoe Museum).


Year Published: 1949
Author: Robson, Leonard, C.F.
Title: The Farriers of London: being an account of the Worshipful Company
of Farriers as described in the records of the Company / compiled by
Leonard Robson: Printed by order of the Court for private circulation
Comments:


Year Published: 1949
Author: Pires, Antonio
Title: Tratado de las enfermedades del pie del caballo
Comments:


Year Published: 1949
Author: EstŠve, J.
Title: Notions Pratiques de Mar‚chalerie. Pr‚f. de N. Marcenal, avec 90
figures intercal‚es das le texte
Comments: "Practical Notions of Horseshoeing."


Year Published: 1949
Author: Holmes, Charles Martin
Title: The Principles and Practice of Horse-Shoeing, etc. [reprint of
1928]
Comments: Included in the back are the various shoeing exams as used by
the Worshipful Company of Farriers at the time, which were devised by
Holmes, and a 5 page appendix "A Short History of the Horse-Nail Trade" by
Fred Burris which is very informative. Overall, a good book--"From many
years' experience, I am of the opinion that all pads are injurious...."
and says trimming the sole, bars and frog are responsible for contraction
of the foot.


Year Published: 1950
Author: Garc¡a Alfonso, Cristino
Title: Podolog¡a Veterinaria 2. ed.
Comments: "Veterinary Foot Studies"


Year Published: 1950
Author: Mensa, Attilio
Title: Podologia
Comments:


Year Published: 1950
Author: Xenophon, the Historian
Title: De l'Art questre
Comments: "The Art of Horsemanship" See notes for 380 BC; and 1979.


Year Published: 1950
Author: Seiter, Jack
Title: The Science of Horseshoeing
Comments:


Year Published: 1950
Author: Richardson, Charles
Title: Practical Farriery: A Guide for Apprentices and Junior Craftsmem.
by C. Richardson, F.W.C.F., Farrier Instructor to Shropshire C.C., Judge
and Examiner to the Worshipful Co. of Farriers...Lecturer...British Horse
Soc.
Comments: Chapter VI relates some real life experiences: "An Irish hunter
[horse]... pulled off 2 or 3 fore shoes. Since he was shod close and as
for hunting, this was very puzzling, for he had good feet and the shoes
were well nailed on. I had to admit I was beaten. One morning [the owner
saw the cause:] 'I noticed him (the horse), ...rubbing his feet up and
down each other.... and with a sharp jerk upward there lay the shoe!'"


Year Published: 1951
Author: Leuthold, A.
Title: Leitfaden des Hufbeschlages. 5., neu berbeitete Auflage
Comments: "Guide to Horseshoeing"


Year Published: 1951
Author: Howorka, Helmuth
Title: Die Geschicte der Landeslehrschmiede fr Niedersachsen in Hannover
von ihrer entstehung bis zur Gegenwart[inaug. diss.]
Comments: "The history of the country smith for Lower Saxony in Hannover
from the beginning to the present"


Year Published: 1951
Author: Carnat, Germain
Title: Le Fer … Cheval … Travers l'Histoire et l'Arch‚ologie; Contribution
… l'Histoire de la Civilisation.
Comments: "The horseshoe through history and archeology; contribution to
the history of civilization." This book discusses the history and
archeology of the horse shoe, and has 4 pages of bibliography.


Year Published: 1952
Author: Dowgiallo, S.
Title: Pielegnowanie Kopyt i Kucie Koni.
Comments: "Hoof Care and Horse Shoeing"


Year Published: 1952
Author: Kral, Emanuel
Title: Specialni pathologie a therapie kopytnich nemoci.
Comments: "Special pathology and therapy of hoof weakness"


Year Published: 1952
Author: Provveduti, Antonio
Title: Ferratura e Igiene del Piede
Comments: "Shoeing and Hygiene of the Foot" Pady says this book describes
the effect of the shoe's mechanical advantage on balance and posture and
also the delicate fitting of a shoe to both healthy and diseased hoofs.


Year Published: 1953
Author: Gnoinski, Tadeusz
Title: Kowal Wiejski Wyd. 2 Popr. i Uzup.
Comments: "The village blacksmith"


Year Published: 1953
Author: Carnat, Germain
Title: Das Hufeisen in seiner Bedeutung fr Kultur und Zivilisation
Comments:


Year Published: 1953
Author: Royal College, of Veterinary Surgeons
Title: Catalogue of the Historical Collection: Books Published Before
1850
Comments: They have a nice collection of older works, many of which were,
apparently, donated by George Fleming, and others.


Year Published: 1953
Author: Kays, Donald J.
Title: The Horse: Judging--Breeding--Feeding--Management--Selling
Comments: Kays was professor of Animal Science at the Ohio State
University--this book became the most widely used college text on horse
management, and was reprinted numerous times. Chapter 22, Horseshoes and
Horseshoeing contains 24 pages--much of which is misinformation: "If nails
are driven inside the white line, blood poison may result." and "Dry hoof
walls lose their toughness.." -- quite misleading.


Year Published: 1954
Author: Andrist, F.
Title: Huf- horn- und Klauenpflege
Comments: "Hoof, Horn, and Claw Care"NUC-DNAL;


Year Published: 1954
Author: Krever, S. N.
Title: Podkovyvanie i Bolezni Kopyt (Veterinarnaia Orotopediia) 2.,
Perer. i Dop. Izd.
Comments: "Horseshoeing and diseases of the hoof"


Year Published: 1954
Author: Vollbach, Heinrich
Title: Geschichte, Entwicklung und Kritik der Hufzubereitungstheorien
[inaug. diss.]
Comments: "History, Development and Critique of Hoof Preparation Theories"


Year Published: 1955
Author: Moxley, H. F.
Title: The Sound Horse - Ext. Bull. 330/ H.F. Moxley & B.H. Good
Comments:


Year Published: 1955
Author: Rural Industries Bureau,
Title: Farriery. Some Questions and Answers on the Anatomy of the Foot
and Leg of the Horse, and on Shoemaking.
Comments: See also CoSIRA, 1977.


Year Published: 1956
Author: Cermak, Miroslav
Title: Kavarskych a Podkovarskych / M. Cermak & E. Kral
Comments:


Year Published: 1956
Author: Salmo, Helmer
Title: Finnische Hufeisenfibeln.
Comments: The title is in German: "Finnish Horse Shoe Primer"


Year Published: 1956
Author: Rudzitis, Imants Eduarda d.
Title: Zirga nagu Kopsana un Apkalsana
Comments: "Horse hoof Care and Shoeing"


Year Published: 1956
Author: Japan,
Title: The Horse-Shoer's Law (Law No. 89, April 1, 1940)
Comments: Under Article 2, the following cannot be licensed horseshoers:
"(1) Any person who has been sentenced to penal servitude or imprisonment
exceeding 6 years; (2) Any person who has been adjudicated incompetent
or quasi-incompetent; (3) Any person who is mental patient, dumb, and
blind."


Year Published: 1957
Author: Armistead, [W. W. ?]
Title: Care of Horses' Feet (Texas Agricultural Extension Bulletin
MP-198)
/ Armistead & Patterson
Comments:


Year Published: 1957
Author: Smithcors, James Frederick
Title: Evolution of the Veterinary Art: A Narrative Account to 1850 by J.
F. Smithcors, D.V.M., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anatomy, College of
Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Comments: Among some of the more interesting illustrations in this book
are: copies of Goodwin's (1820), plates of various shoes from various
countries, and diseased hoofs; Bridges' (1752), title page and several
anatomical drawings; and 2 plates from Fiaschi, 1556--one showing an
"Italian Farrier's Establishment" with a horse being shod at the forge,
and a nobleman directing, and another with the same title of a saint
[Eloy?] at the forge, while an assistant holds the horse's hoof up on the
anvil.Smithcors book is enlightening about many things but has the
veterinarian's view of farriers: "The 18th century farrier also did some
shoeing, but this increasingly was being done by shoeing smiths, who
probably dabbled in disease when the master's back was turned." I
believe this view is way off the mark.


Year Published: 1957
Author: Dunshee, Kenneth Holcomb
Title: The Village Blacksmith [Early American Occupations Series]
Comments: James Fleming notes: "This pamphlet is a profile of the American
blacksmith, primarily in his role as farrier, from the Colonial days to
the present. ...Many illustrations are taken from archives, museums, and
present-day shops."


Year Published: 1958
Author: Buckley, Amelia King
Title: The Keeneland Association Library; A Guide to the Collection
Comments: Robin Bledsoe says: "Invaluable cataloge of this fine racing
library, and still the best reference to American books."


Year Published: 1958
Author: Akerblom, Eric Nathanael
Title: Larobok i Hovbeslag
Comments: "Textbook on Horseshoeing"Pady says: "Illustrating the scope
and method of horseshoe forging design, this Swedish text describes the
various ways to fashion the right shoe for the particular hoof's
uniqueness."


Year Published: 1958
Author: Davenport, Colin
Title: The Foot and Shoeing. by Major C. Davenport, O.B.E., F.R.C.V.S.;
Film Strip Book No. 6. A Pony Club Publication
Comments: This was written to accompany a pony club film. It is juvenile,
but, considering the lack of easily available quality material at the
time, fair. "The sole covers the ground surface of the foot and its
object is to protect the foot from injury from below. ...Thinning of the
sole with the knife makes it look smooth and neat but is a bad practice."


Year Published: 1959
Author: Horv th, Mih ly
Title: Patkol stan. 6. Teljesen Atdolg. Kiad.
Comments: This is the only Hungarian text I was able to find on
horseshoeing.


Year Published: 1959
Author: Schleiter, Hans
Title: šbungen am Huf
Comments: "Studies on the Hoof"Pady notes: "Describing the instruments
and techniques for shaping the horseshoe, this pamphlet also provides
specialized information about horseshoeing care of diseased or malformed
feet which require surgical care." Schleiter also wrote a book entirely
on cattle foot care: "Klauenpflege bei Hausteiren.", the 3rd edition of
which was published in 1966.


Year Published: 1959
Author: MacAllen, Jack
Title: This is my Foundation; Upon it I Will Stand
Comments: Used as a training aid for shoeing students at the Michigan
StateUniveristy. There is little of note here, but: "The bars act as
braces to prevent the heels from contracting or coming together." At this
particular time there were no books on horseshoeing currently being
published in America, nor had there been any except government/military
for some time!


Year Published: 1959
Author: Ruthe, Hermann
Title: Der Huf: Lehrbuch fr den Hufbeschlagschmied von Professor Dr.
Hermann Ruthe, Direktor des Instituts fr Veterin„r-Orthop„die und der
Lehrschmiede der Humboldt-Universitat Berlin, Mit 161 Abbildungen im Text
Comments: "The Hoof: Textbook for the Horseshoer" For trimming the hoof,
besides the rasp, only a toeing knife and mallet are shown--a rather
unusual approach to those of us who are accustomed to seeing nippers. The
sections on lameness and hoof diseases appear to be well done.


Year Published: 1960
Author: Western Horseman,
Title: Horseshoeing and Hoof Care
Comments: This is a collection of articles from the Western Horseman
magazine, plus 2 excerpts from the U.S. Cavalry Manual. Some of it is
good: "Curiously enough, foot troubles and the necessity for shoeing are
largely man-made. ..The horse was brought from soft pasture to hard
roads; from self-regulated exercise to enforced work; from healthy pasture
to filthy housing where he is often made to stand in his own feces and
urine or in mud...."


Year Published: 1961
Author: Anderson, John Kinloch
Title: Ancient Greek Horsemanship
Comments: Pady says includes a translation of Xenophon, a general history
of horses and 10 pages of bibliography.


Year Published: 1962
Author: Webb, Joe
Title: The Care and Training of the Tennessee Walking Horse
Comments: 2nd edition has 23 pages on care of the horse's feet and
shoeing.The introduction and the back of the book jacket both advertise
his summer camp, and the book itself promotes his training
facilities--nevertheless, it has much valuable information--not the least
of which is a series ofphotos in the upper corner of each
page--flipping the pages shows a Tennessee Walker in action, and you
can study the individual frames--nice!


Year Published: 1962
Author: Rosser, Robert D.
Title: No Foot -- No Horse
Comments: Printed by Hornbeck's Printing (no address).


Year Published: 1962
Author: Pugh, Leslie Penrhys
Title: From Farriery to Veterinary Medicine 1785 - 1795 by L. P. Pugh
Professor of Veterinary Clinical Studies in the University of Cambridge,
Fellow of Magdalena College, Past-President of the Royal College of V.S.
Comments: Pugh gives some insight to the early days of the London
Veterinary College: "It was Coleman who introduced the shortened course to
line his own pocket.... They [the students] had been given an
inadequately short training, in some cases only 3 months.... Veterinary
surgeons had been excluded from the Examining Board and from College
government...." It was only after these problems were rectified that
veterinarians gained respect.


Year Published: 1962
Author: Adams, Ora Robert
Title: Lameness in Horses
Comments: (3rd ed.) The section on diagnosing lameness is unequaled.
Overall it is excellent, however, in shoeing there are some glaring
errors: i.e. page 388 he illustrates a shoe with 2 trailers and says
trailers may be put on one or both heels, which of course they cannot--a
trailer on the medial side of a shoe would be likely to cripple a horse.
No doubt he saw such a shoe in Asmus (q.v.) who makes them that way
"before I turn the heel calks."The fact that he says: "A skillful
horseshoer can control the position of the foot in rest and in
flight."(p402) -- and then makes no other mention of shoers, their input
or value, etc.!!! refers to "iron" shoes, when in fact they are now all
steel. he has "necessary evil" in quotes, p395--this and angle, etc.
point to Lungwitz as his main source of information.


Year Published: 1963
Author: Smithcors, James Frederick
Title: The American Veterinary Profession: its Background and Development
Comments: Pady says: "The first part deals with the backgrounds of the
American veterinary profession; the second describes the current
developments of the profession and its interplay with other professional
agencies."


Year Published: 1963
Author: Knowles, Charles N.
Title: Care of Horse's Legs and Corrective Horseshoeing (ASci 90 - A)
Comments: "Injury to horses may result from want of attention to their
unshod feet. ...When the colt is kept confined in stables or small
paddocks, there is insufficient wear to keep this balance between growth
and wear. Excessive growth [of the hoof] can be the cause of injury to
the colt. At least once every three months, the feet should be trimmed to
prevent ill-formed feet from reacting injuriously upon the legs." (pg 16)


Year Published: 1963
Author: Bone, Jesse Franklin, ed.
Title: Equine Medicine & Surgery
Comments: The several editions of "Equine Medicine & Surgery" have been
impressive and authoritative texts, but while dealing with hoof and leg
problems have almost religiously avoided mentioning shoes and shoeing.
Considering what has been written in some veterinary texts (e.g. Adams)
that may seem a blessing, yet one would think they might acknowledge the
therapeutic benefits of shoes in many cases of lameness or hoof problems.


Year Published: 1964
Author: Hogg, Gary
Title: Hammer & Tongs: Blacksmithery Down the Ages. Drawings by Peter
Chadwick
Comments: Pady notes: "In addition to historical discussions about the
blacksmith's role as an armorer and artist, the tradition of the farrier's
work explains why his patient attitude towards horses results in expert
care of the horse's foot."


Year Published: 1964
Author: Hickman, John
Title: Veterinary Orthopaedics
Comments: The National Union Catalog notes that it contains a
bibliography.


Year Published: 1964
Author: Springhall, John Anthony
Title: The Elements of Horseshoeing
Comments: One of those odd books... In the preface he says "While there
have been no marked changes in the accepted methods of horseshoeing in the
last 50 years, most of the books on the subject are out of print." and he
gives no bibliography! There are beautiful photos of anatomical specimens
and of some handmade and highly polished shoes. It is clear that he did
not make them, for he refers to the anvil's pritchel hole as "for the
'nail cutter.'"


Year Published: 1964
Author: Knowles, Charles N. ed.
Title: Care of Horses' Legs (AH 90)[excerpts from William
Russell--recent reprints are titled "Scientific Horseshoeing"]
Comments: Mostly excerpts from Russell "Scientific Horseshoeing" and later
issues of the "American Ironsmith"; Jack MacAllen (q.v.) on "Scottish
Bottom" shoes: "Horses going on the moss would sink if they did not have
wide feet. So to increase the area which contacted the ground they grew
big feet on their horses, then shod them with large shoes and bevelled
edges so as to make the shoe look like a continuation of the foot." (pg
34)pg 48, from the 1946 American Ironsmith on the need for horseshoers.


Year Published: 1964
Author: Fritzboger, E.
Title: Edstrmitetskirurgi I + II
Comments: Surgery of the extremities


Year Published: 1965
Author: Butler, Karl Douglas, Jr.
Title: Horseshoeing Iron and Forge Work
Comments: A short book describing how to forge and shape plain and bar
shoes, and commonly needed modifications such as caulks, clips, trailers,
and square toes. There is also a brief description of handling
horses' feet. This book is unique in several respects--the first of only
3 Am. books to deal solely and specifically in the forging of shoes, and I
believe it is the first book about horsesehoeing in almost 70 years to
have a bibliography!


Year Published: 1965
Author: Hoover, Ralph
Title: Farrier Science
Comments: Ralph Hoover taught horseshoeing at Cal. Poly. for many years.
Doug Butler was one of his students.


Year Published: 1965
Author: Churchill, Frank Gordon
Title: Practical and Scientific Horseshoeing [facsimilie reprint]
Comments: Interesting tool ads from 1912 in the back of the book. He
notes: "When a digital vein is cut, by accident or in experiment. If the
horse is walked, a jet of blood spurts out each time he puts the foot to
the ground; but if he is allowed to stand, the blood flows in a steady
stream from the vein. Much injury to the foot often results from starting
the horse off suddenly at a fast gait on a hard road after he has been
standing...." (p40)


Year Published: 1966
Author: Hugger, Paul
Title: Von Hufeisen und Hufbeschlag.
Comments: "On Horseshoes and Horseshoeing"


Year Published: 1966
Author: Canfield, Donald M.
Title: Elements of Farrier Science
Comments: A very nice text & workbook for the study of horseshoeing.
Contains some very good information and advice which the profession has
gotten away from or overlooked: when fitting, "The shoe should extend
beyond the rearmost portion of the wall by half the width of the web of
the shoe." and on brazing versus welding "A braze will hold permanently as
long as the shoe is not heated to brazing temperature, [yet]...changes are
easily made."pg. 84, correctly depicts an overreach I think he's the first
one to talk about the potential problems of "corrective shoeing."


Year Published: 1966
Author: Lungwitz, Frederick Clement Anton
Title: A Textbook of Horseshoeing for Horseshoers and Veterinarians by A.
Lungwitz and John W. Adams [a facsimile reprint of Adams 1913 transl.]
Comments: There are many excellent illustrations, and much good advice:
"There is no manner of shoeing that will prevent interfering which is
caused by improper harnessing, crooked hitching, or weariness. The
simpler and the lighter the shoes the less will horses interfere."
"Acute-angled hoofs become more readily diseased than regular and upright
(stumpy) hoofs." also "A course of 4 to 6 weeks is not sufficient." See
also Lungwitz, 1897."The quarters gradually become lowered by rubbing and
wearing upon the branches of the shoe." (p116) "Shoes which show brightly
polished places...have been loose. The wear...is usually greater on the
inner than on the outer quarter.... The degree of this wear of the hoof
may be from nothing to one-fourth of an inch or more from one shoeing to
the next." (pg. 86)


Year Published: 1966
Author: U.S., War Department
Title: The Horseshoer (Technical Manual No. 2-220 War Dept. March 11,
1941) [reprint]
Comments: It perpetuates some very destructive and persistent errors:
promoting expansion of the hoof; applying external moisture; shortening
the heels to prevent pulled shoes; "corrective" shoeing in mature horses;
and the idea that shoeing is a simple, straightforward, technical job.
Despite these serious and persistent errors, this is a very thorough,
comprehensive, clear and concise text--with lots of valuable information.


Year Published: 1966
Author: Smith, H. R. Bradley
Title: Chronological Development of Nails, Supplement to Blacksmiths' and
Farriers' Tools at Shelburne Museum,--A History of their Development from
Forge to Factory. by H. R. Bradley Smith, Museum Pamphlet Series, Number
7
Comments: Both common and horseshoe nails: "1645 Virginia Legislature
issued statute promising the owner who wanted to leave his house, if he
would not burn it down to obtain the nails, an estimated equivalent of
nails would be provided for his new dwelling." "1862 Ausable Horse Shoe
Nail Co....produced 500 tons of nails per year...using Daniel Dodge's 1862
patentend machines." "A blacksmith could make 10 to 12 pounds of
horseshoe nails per day...."


Year Published: 1966
Author: Smith, H. R. Bradley
Title: Blacksmiths' and Farriers' Tools at Shelburne Museum, --A History
of their Development from Forge to Factory. by H. R. Bradley Smith,
Museum Pamphlet Series, Number 7
Comments: A fantastic collection of items are pictured and described--e.g.
"LAWN BOOTS. These 'equestrian golf shoes' were made to fit over iron
horseshoes when horses pulled lawnmowers to cut finely seeded lawns and
greens on golf courses. The boots protected the expensive, tender grass.
They are made of leather and are studded on the bottom with small metal
knobs. These particular boots were used on Dr. W. Seward
Webb's...course.."


Year Published: 1966
Author: Kauffman, Henry J.
Title: Early American Ironware: Cast and Wrought
Comments: James Fleming (1980) notes: "This is a general survey of the
various metal working trades, including the blacksmith, founder, farrier,
locksmith, gunsmith, nailer, wheelwright, and the tinsmith."


Year Published: 1967
Author: Smythe, R. H.
Title: The Horse: Structure and Movement
Comments: Discusses and illustrates the bone structure of the horse, and
the particular muscles involved in the motion of various parts. But also:
"While 3/4 of the cases of lameness in shod horses may derive from the
foot, it is very rare to detect foot lameness in any of our indigenous
ponies..." and "Most of these ponies possess rather small, upright feet
with an inclination of 55-60 degrees in comparison with 45-50 in the
thoroughbred... horses."


Year Published: 1968
Author: Harrison, James C., ed.
Title: Care and Training of the Trotter and Pacer
Comments: There are 122 pages on shoeing and balancing here that every
farrier should read. "Invariably I will wind up with a free, plainly-shod
horse. ...you've generally got to put on a little more [shoe] weight to
get them started, to get the proper gait and balance established. Once
you've done that, you can start slipping the weight off gradually." and
"The way a horse stands is never an absolute indication of how he will
handle his foot.."


Year Published: 1968
Author: Manwill, Marion C.
Title: How to Shoe a Horse
Comments: The jacket notes say: "This book is the result of the author's
quest for subject matter on shoeing horses. He discovered that although
some books devoted a chapter to it, there was no book that contained
enough detail about the mechanics to help you actually shoe the horse.
...And when you have completed [reading] 'How to Shoe A Horse' you will be
ready to begin... preferably on your neighbor's horse." ....Really!?!


Year Published: 1968
Author: Wiseman, Robert F.
Title: The Complete Horseshoeing Guide
Comments: To anyone in 1989, the lack of availability of a variety of
tools and shoes will be immediately apparent--but there is much good,
practical advice: "A good job is what is right for a particular horse. It
may look different or odd to the horse owner.... [but] This is one
business, however, when the 'customer is not always right,' and a good
farrier will do what is best for the horse or will not do the job at all."


Year Published: 1968
Author: Watson, Aldren Auld.
Title: The Village Blacksmith
Comments: James Fleming (1980) notes: "This is a historical description of
the smithy, the smith, the forge tools and equipment, and many techniques
and operations used by the American blacksmith since the Colonial period.
...The making of horseshoes, wagon iron, hinges, bolts, hooks, hammers,
and axes are described and illustrated."


Year Published: 1968
Author: Burdeniuk, A. F.
Title: Bolezni kopyt.
Comments: "Hoof diseases"


Year Published: 1968
Author: Sabin, S. W.
Title: Foot trimming and horseshoeing: 4-H members' guide / New York
State College of Agriculture at Cornell University: M-4-13
Comments:


Year Published: 1968
Author: Tutt, J. F. Donald, ed.
Title: Hayes' Veterinary Notes for Horse Owners: A Manual of Horse
Medicine and Surgery. Revised by J. F. Donald Tutt, F.R.C.V.S. [16th
ed.]
Comments: 15 pages on shoeing, 33 pages on diseases and injury of the
feet, a bit of history in the introduction. From the mentioning of
Charlier shoes, and soft iron, instead of steel for shoes, etc. I would
guess this section had not been changed much since about 1900--and I think
it is better written than Hayes, 1987. "Wet and moisture are the main
damaging factors; the hoof is softened and the moisture provides for a
'whetstone' effect...."


Year Published: 1969
Author: Hayes, Matthew Horace
Title: Points of the Horse. A treatise on the conformation, movements,
breeds and evolution of the horse. M. Horace Hayes F.R.C.V.S. Seventh
(Revised) Edition
Comments: "Moisture has a well-marked softening and weakening influence on
the horn, and it consequently affects the form of the foot. We find that
the drier the climate, the stronger is the horn of horses reared in it;
the more upright are the hoofs; and the more concave are the soles. When
the horn of the wall and sole is weak, it cannot efficiently support the
weight thrown on the leg, and the foot will have a tendancy to become
flat." (pg. 233-4)


Year Published: 1969
Author: Rezneck, Samuel
Title: The Geneology on an Industry -- The Burden Iron Works of Troy,
New York (1809-1940) [unpublished report, written for the National Museum
of History and Technology]
Comments: The industry mentioned in the title is, of course, the horseshoe
industry.


Year Published: 1969
Author: Rooney, James R.
Title: Biomechanics of Lameness in Horses.James R. Rooney, D.V.M.,
Associate Professor of Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
Comments: An excellent book, although his "The Lame Horse" is more
accessible. "One may comment, probably fruitlessly, about the
unreasonableness of many of man's equine ideals. Could not some other
standards of aesthetic perfection be set for saddle horses, Tennessee
Walking Horses, and others, so that massive hooves with long toes would
not be required? Why should man, in pursuit of ephemeral ideals, so
distort the... horse...?"


Year Published: 1969
Author: Green, Ben K.
Title: Horse Conformation by Ben K. Green, Pioneer Stock Farm, Cumby,
Texas
Comments: There are 2 pages on the feet of horses -- much of it incorrect.
However, it probably accurately reflects the common wisdom of that period.
He suggests a 45 to 50 degree angle as being proper, and insists that the
frog should bear weight "at every step." Interestingly, after promoting a
low angle and large foot, he correctly notes: "Ponies have a shorter, more
perpendicular foot than the large breeds... their feet are naturally
sounder."


Year Published: 1970
Author: Palmer, Felicity A.
Title: The blacksmith's ledgers of the Hedges family of Bucklebury,
Berkshire, 1736-1773
Comments: The University of Reading, where this was published, also has a
"good collection of horseshoes and photographs" in their "Museum of
English Rural Life" in Whiteknights Park. (Sparkes, 1976)


Year Published: 1970
Author: Greeley, R. Gordon
Title: The Art and Science of Horseshoeing
Comments: There is a full page drawing on every other page, facing a
paragraph or two of explanations. "Besides the omissions in this text,
some of the concepts may inspire controversy. Remember, horseshoeing is
certainly an art and certainly a science, but not an exact science. There
are too many exceptions to the rules. Many misconceptions linger from the
last century, and it cannot be denied that some may turn up in this
volume...." [a few did]


Year Published: 1971
Author: Wiseman, Robert F.
Title: How to Shoe Your Horse. Robert F. Wiseman, Bill Weikel, Editor;
The Farnam Horse Library; 110.
Comments: This is a condensed version of Wiseman, 1968. It is well
illustrated with color photos, and easy to read. It actually does contain
a good deal of useful information, but I don't think enough for someone to
simply read and begin shoeing horses. "A horse's natural instinct is to
get away from you. Very few horses will hurt you on purpose, but if
you're not careful you may be in the way as they try to make their
get-a-way."


Year Published: 1971
Author: Webber, Ronald
Title: The Village Blacksmith
Comments: James Fleming (1980) notes: "This is a popular history of the
English blacksmith from Celtic times to the present. ...The author has
included many reproductions of original woodcuts, drawings, paintings, and
engravings depicting blacksmithing and farriery." Frank Turley tells me
that "it is a wonderful compendium of British history and lore. There is
a whole chapter on Horseshoes as Charms. ...a wealth of information on
St. ...Eloi."


Year Published: 1971
Author: Holmstr”m, John Gustaf
Title: Drake's Modern Blacksmithing and Horseshoeing
Comments: About 25 pages on the horse's foot--less than any of the other
Holmstom books. Although the illustrations are the same as those in his
other books, much of the information is quite different--generally less
helpful, and less accurate. For example, "Standard Blacksmithing..."
discusses "metastatic laminitis" and recommends cold water on the hoofs;
while "Drake's..." says little but to turn the horse loose in a wet
pasture!Outrageously different! -- Here he says to shoe a horse with a
brittle foot, use a toe clip and fit snug, while in his other books he
says to hot-seat the shoe! All the accurate, insightful things Holmstrom
has written have been rewritten or edited out!!! (On second reading,
apparently most of the "Modern... series is similar, and not so good.)


Year Published: 1971
Author: Addison, James W.
Title: The Illinois Horseshoeing License Examination: A Practical Study
Guide for Applicants and Horse Owners by Jim Addison, Member Illinois
Horseshoeing Examining Committee
Comments: "My definition of corrective shoeing is that when a Horse is
injuring himself through gait, or other faults, correction is then the
lesser of the two evils. Just to attempt to correct a Horse for the sake
of making him suit the owner is not the true definition of corrective
shoeing."


Year Published: 1972
Author: Columella, L. J. M.
Title: De Re Rustica. Hrsg. K. Ahrens
Comments: See Columella, 55.


Year Published: 1972
Author: Bernard, J.
Title: L'Art de la Mar‚chalerie
Comments:


Year Published: 1972
Author: Webber, Ronald
Title: The Village Blacksmith
Comments:


Year Published: 1972
Author: Jones, William Elvin, ed.
Title: Horseshoeing. Edited by William E. Jones D.V.M., Ph.D. From
material in "The Horse: it's treatment in health and disease" [by Axe]...
Comments: This is a reprint of advice from Axe. There is a short,
interesting, and fairly accurate account of the history of horseshoeing
and some of it's controversey in the 18th and 19th centuries. Also: "Few
owners of horses appreciate the importance of the best shoeing, which can
only be done with time and care. Low-priced work means low-priced labour,
and the hurry necessary to obtain a living by it quite prevents...
[quality work]."


Year Published: 1972
Author: Jones, William Elvin, ed.
Title: Locomotion and Lameness. Edited by William E. Jones, D.V.M., Ph.D.
From material in "The Horse: it's treatment in health and disease" [Axe],
No. 8 in the Horse Health Care Series
Comments: Jones again edits material from Axe, 1905-08. This repeats the
material in Jones "Horseshoeing" on diseases of the feet, but in place of
the material on shoeing is information on lamenesses. Syptoms of spavin:
"If continued in work, the toe strikes the ground and in time becomes
worn. Spavin lameness is most severe after a rest, and particularly
noticeable when the horse first leaves the stable, but it improves as he
goes on."


Year Published: 1973
Author: Pady, Donald Stuart
Title: Horses and Horsemanship: Selected Books and Periodicals in the Iowa
State University Library; An Annotated Bibliography -- Series in
Bibliography, No. 3
Comments: A valuable reference work. Pady notes that Iowa State
University was the first to have a nationally funded veterinary school
begun in 1879, and they have had an interest in horses since their
founding seven years earlier. Pady lists about 800 of the library's
holdings of some 1200 books on horses and horsemanship. The library is
strong in 19th century farriery and veterinary works.


Year Published: 1973
Author: Parker, R. A.
Title: The analysis of the forces and displacements in the digit of the
horse during walk [M.Sc. Thesis -- Cornell]
Comments:


Year Published: 1973
Author: Mair, F. J.
Title: Expansion of the horn wall close to the bearing surface and the
sole in the horse hind hoof [diss.]
Comments:


Year Published: 1973
Author: No‰l Hume, Ivor, ed.
Title: Colonial Williamsburg: Occasional Papers in Archaeology, Volume I,
Five Artifact Studies
Comments: One of the 5 studies is the 17 page "A Study of the Horseshoes
in the Department of Archaeology, Colonial Williamsburg" by Edward
Chappell. He discusses the specific shoes found, and also the general
history: "Maintaining a sufficient supply of mass-produced horseshoes
seems to have been a notable concern for British and American armies
during the Revolution, although their use ranged far beyond tidewater
Virginia. In June, [22nd] 1776, the Virginia Gazette stated that
the British government had contracted for one thousand baggage wagons, two
thousand saddles, and ten thousand horseshoes in preparation for war in
the colonies." (pg. 101)


Year Published: 1973
Author: Holmstr”m, John Gustaf
Title: Scientific Horse, Mule & Ox Shoeing: A Standard Treatise Adapted to
the Demand of Veterinarians, Farriers & the Amateur Horseshoer. by J. G.
Holmstr”m, author of "Modern Blacksmithing"[facsimile reprint]
Comments: Interesting photos of older tools. Some sound ideas: "It is our
duty as horseshoers to ask every state legislature to give us an
apprentice law, that will require every young man... to serve an
apprenticeship of 3 years. We have in some states a license law; but this
is only a tax on everyhorseshoer, as any bungler, able to pay this
tax, will be given a license to practice horseshoeing, ruin horses, cut
down prices and lower the standard..."


Year Published: 1973
Author: Dienlin, Jon A.
Title: Balance of the Equine Foot and Gait and Therapeutic Shoeing with An
Introduction to Biomechanics of Corrective Shoeing
Comments: The first book to deal with shoeing in terms of force vectors,
etc., and the first to start to re-examine the basics. On corrective
trimming: "If the change is required in the pastern it must be
accomplished prior to 3 months of age. If the pastern is well formed and
the correction is desired in the metacarpal it should be accomplished
prior to 9-12 months of age but after 3 months. [with]...careful thought
and study....""This shoe [extended heels] provides basically the same
effect of relieving pressure over the navicular bursa as does the raised
heel. (p.53)"


Year Published: 1974
Author: Stehsel, Donald L.
Title: Farrier's Orthopedics Handbook
Comments: It is difficult to say much about this book. It is not full of
errors, nor does it have much valuable information--it is rather mediocre.
It comes from that period when there was little communication among
shoers.The book is disorganized, rambling, but there is an index. The
photos are clear, but the shoes and their uses are not. One sentence
sticks out: "Sometimes it may be necessary to rasp off the clinches to
pull the shoe..."


Year Published: 1974
Author: Albert, Waco
Title: Foot and Health Care of Horses - Ag. Ext. Ser. Circ. No. 1103
Comments:


Year Published: 1974
Author: Hanauer, Elise V.
Title: No Foot, No Horse
Comments: Same old mistakes rewritten--keep the hoofs moist, don't
interfere with "expansion" etc.....


Year Published: 1974
Author: Butler, Karl Douglas, Jr.
Title: The Principles of Horseshoeing
Comments: A very thorough, well organized and clearly written text. The
first book since the turn of the century with extensive research and
references. The book is sprinkled with appropriate quotations from older
books. It was the first book in this century to counter the "hype." [The
press and others] "...make horseshoeing out to be 'easy money.' ...This
publicity has encouraged many people to enter the field with little or no
training."


Year Published: 1974
Author: Rooney, James R.
Title: The Lame Horse, Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
Comments: This is Rooney's "Biomechanics of Lameness" in layman's terms.
The photographs, x-rays, and diagrams are all excellent, and help
illuminate an already clear text. There are 12 pages on spavin: "An
important point... When the joint is first damaged, there is pain, and
the horse will be lame. X-rays at this time generally will not show any
changes in or around the involved joint. ...when changes appear... the
disease... is well advanced."


Year Published: 1974
Author: Willoughby, David P.
Title: The Empire of Equus
Comments: Deals with the history, evolution, and anatomy of the horse.


Year Published: 1974
Author: Fischerleitner, T. F.
Title: Rontgenograhische untersuchunger ber den einfluss der
lageveranderungen des huf- strahl- und kronbeins auf die mechanic der
hornkapsel des pferdes im belsastungsgerat [inaug. diss.]
Comments: "Radiological study on the influence of changes in position of
coffin, navicular, and pastern bones on the mechanics of the horn capsule
of the horse in a loading apparatus"


Year Published: 1975
Author: Beaston, Bud
Title: The Master Farrier: Manual of Problem Shoeing
Comments: Many beautiful handmade shoes are pictured, but he does not deal
with shoemaking. Many different cases of lameness are shown in photos and
the treatments and outcomes detailed. "A master farrier is much more than
just a horseshoer. He is a horse lover who is concerned with every aspect
of a horse's health. In other words, the master farrier is concerned
about the total welfare of the horse as it relates to the bones of the leg
and hoof."


Year Published: 1975
Author: Adams, Ora Robert
Title: Le malattie degli arti del cavallo e problemi di ferratura
Comments:


Year Published: 1975
Author: Anonymous, ?
Title: Blacksmith's Shops
Comments: Grimshaw notes that besides being a history of ironworking, and
farriery tools, this contains a list of working blacksmiths in Great
Britain.


Year Published: 1975
Author: Fox, Claire Gilbride
Title: The Fairman Rogers Collection on the Horse and Equitation: A
History and Guide. By Claire Gilbride Fox, Ph.D.Commissioned by the
School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Comments:


Year Published: 1975
Author: Smithcors, James Frederick
Title: The Veterinarian in America 1625 - 1975
Comments: A concise, interesting, well illustrated, informative history,
but with a prejudice against farriers: "perhaps the less said the better."
There is a drawing of a British farrier-sergeant during the Revolutionary
War: "The metal plate on the farrier's bearskin cap was decorated with a
horseshoe, pincers and hammer. The circular 'churn' attached to the
saddle pommel contained nails, coal, tools, instruments, drugs, and lint
dressing." ...there is a drawing of the sole being drawn on page 38.


Year Published: 1975
Author: CoSIRA,
Title: The Horse's Foot: a guide for AFCL students
Comments: It is hard to say anything nice about a booklet that is wrong in
some places and difficult to understand in others. It gives 130-140
degrees as the standing angle of the fetlock joint, and 45-50 degress for
the angle of the ground to foot--neither of which is correct, and they
don't even correspond, that is, a 130 degree fetlock angle would
correspond to a 40 degree angle of the foot! 140-150 and 50-60 degrees
would be more accurate.


Year Published: 1976
Author: Sparkes, Ivan G.
Title: Old Horseshoes
Comments: Photos and descriptions of the various styles of shoes used
through- out history. A nice little book. "The feature which will more
easily distinguish the shoe of the early nineteenth century (the Regency
type of Gordon Ward) is the use of the toe-clip on the upper surface of
the shoe to support the hoof. ...the toe-clip is believed to have come
into fashion with draft horses in the early 1800s and a little later with
riding horses."


Year Published: 1976
Author: Gertz, Andrew
Title: Shoe Your Own Horse: An Illustrated Guide
Comments: Written by a guy who has never shod a horse, and hasn't watched
very carefully, this book comes close to "Brain Surgery Self-Taught": "We
were surprised to learn that only a few miles east of New York City's
bustling masses, a man ...is making a living as a professional horseshoer.
...Because of this we decided to do a how-to photo-essay on the art of
shoeing." A photo of a toe clip being drawn reads "Banging out the
heel." This should get an award as one of the worst!


Year Published: 1976
Author: Smith, Frederick
Title: The Early History of Veterinary Literature and its British
Development by Major-General Sir Frederick Smith, K.C.M.G., C.B., Fellow
and Hon. Associate of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons [reprint]
Comments: Although his veterinary viewpoint can be misleading as to the
shoeing value of some books, it is a great reference. I have often quoted
from Smith about the books I have not yet seen; in nearly every case you
will find much more about the book and author in Smith. While Huth,
Grimshaw, and Pady are essentially just lists of books, Smith gives
biographical details on the authors, as well as veterinary comments on the
books.I've quoted him as "Smith says:" 100 times - a lot, but hopefully
not excessively. 116 books in Smith that weren't in Huth, (but 190 in
Huth that weren't in Smith).


Year Published: 1976
Author: Addison, James W.
Title: Common Sense Horseshoeing
Comments: This is marketed as a home-study course of horseshoeing through
Equine Educational Services, P.O. Box 413, O'Fallon, IL 62269.


Year Published: 1976
Author: Fisher, Leonard Everett
Title: The Blacksmiths [Colonial American Craftsmen series]
Comments: James Fleming notes: "It briefly discusses the original
development of the industry in America, including the role Great Britain
played, and the need for smiths in the New World. It covers the
manufacture of several common products, including nails, axes, and
horseshoes."


Year Published: 1976
Author: Autheville, P. d'
Title: Pr‚cis de mar‚chalerie / P. d'Autheville et P. Fromond
Comments: "Compendium of Farriery"NUC says it has 2 pages of
bibliography.


Year Published: 1977
Author: Telleen, Maurice
Title: The Draft Horse Primer
Comments: In 1964, Maurice Telleen and wife started the "Draft Horse
Journal". The chapter on "Shoeing and Foot Care" consists almost entirely
of material reprinted from USDA Bulletin 1535 "Farm Horseshoeing" (q.v.),
with some quotes from Jack MacAllen (q.v.) and a few editorial comments:
"I would no more recommend that you... do your own shoeing than I would
recommend that you be your own dentist.Hire the professional... money well
spent." About 21 pages on the foot and shoeing.


Year Published: 1977
Author: McKibbin, Lloyd S.
Title: Horse Owner's Handbook
Comments: Explains to the layman the symptoms and treatments of lameness
and diseases of the horse. It contains many excellent photos and x-rays.
Regarding thrush he says: "The stall should be kept clean, and lime should
be spread over the floor. If this treatment plan does not stop the
infection from recurring, spread 10 inches of clean sand or clay on the
floor of the stall." About 187 pages on the horse's foot.


Year Published: 1977
Author: Evans, J. Warren
Title: The Horse
Comments: Butler (1985) cites the 1981 ed. in his chapters on shoeing
evaluation and biomechanics.


Year Published: 1977
Author: Clark, Mick
Title: Corrective and Pathological Horseshoes
Comments:


Year Published: 1977
Author: Hickman, John
Title: Farriery: A Complete Illustrated Guide.John Hickman, M.A.,
F.R.C.V.S., Reader in Animal Surgery, University of Cambridge
Comments: The chief value of this book lies in the inclusion of cross
sections with each of the diagrams of various horse shoes. The problem
with the book (as with Adams'), is that lacking first hand experience and
having a natural prejudice against farriers, the book is full of the all
too common errors and contradictions, handed down for more than 2
centuries: promoting expansion, moistening hoofs, "necessary evil", 45
degree angle, etc.He does, however, correctly depict and describe
overreach.


Year Published: 1977
Author: Bailey, Jocelyn
Title: The Village Blacksmith
Comments: Since horseshoeing schools were devised and set up by the
veterinary profession in the late 1800's stressing the handmaking of shoes
in their courses there has been a confusion between the previously
separate arts of farriery and blacksmithing. Although Bailey is subject
to this confusion, she nevertheless divides the booklet into 2 sections,
the 1st on blacksmithing, and the 2nd on farriery--it contains some
interesting history.


Year Published: 1977
Author: Emery, Leslie
Title: Horseshoeing Theory and Hoof Care / Leslie Emery, Jim Miller,
Nyles Van Hoosen, D.V.M.
Comments: While the focus of this book is predominately on navicular
disease, it is full of valuable insights and information, and is clearly
and profusely illustrated. They make a good case against the need for
frog pressure and for a higher average hoof angle: 50-65 instead of 45
degrees. They are the first in this century to point out the fact that it
is moisture, not dryness, that cracks and weakens hoofs. A super
book. "There is an extremely important point that we wish to make. Our
experience indicates that treatment of front leg conditions...greatly
assists treatment of hind leg lamenesses. ...The reverse, that proper
balancing of hind hooves greatly assists in prevention and treatment of
front leg injuries, is equally valid and important." (p225)


Year Published: 1977
Author: CoSIRA,
Title: Farriery: some questions and answers on the anatomy of the foot and
leg of the horse, and on shoemaking.CoSIRA London, Council for Small
Industries in Rural Areas 1977
Comments: This booklet claims to be "...for the guidance of farriers, some
of whom will wish to enter for the recognized examinations." so possibly
these are some of the questions and expected answers on that test. e.g.
"Q.) Does any wear of the hoof take place between the shoe and the Wall?
A.) Yes! the wall of the hoof wears considerably at the heels... at the
toe, however, where the shoe is fastened tightly... no wear takes
place."See also Rural Industries Bureau, 1955.


Year Published: 1977
Author: CoSIRA,
Title: Farriery Training Manual
Comments: The third edition is basically a course outline--quite the
opposite of Simpson's "Mechanics of Horseshoeing..." which tells you
precisely how, CoSIRA instead tells mostly what to do without specifiying
how: "Knowledgeable examination of the horses legs and feet.... Together
with a study of the animal's foot flight pattern are the first
essentials... accomplished with study, understanding and training."--end
of subject.


Year Published: 1978
Author: DeHaven, William
Title: Horseshoeing Technology
Comments: It is curious that I have been unable to find the book, or even
an advertisement for it. Since M. J. Smith listed the number of pages in
each of his other entries, but not for this book, it seems likely that he
had not seen it either, and that it was never published. If there was a
manuscript, I wonder where it is now.


Year Published: 1978
Author: Owen, Richard
Title: A Farrier's Bibliography: 1960 - 1977
Comments: This contains not a list of books, but a list of shoeing-related
articles (including book reviews) appearing between 1960 and 1977 in the
following magazines: American Farriers' Journal, Am Cattle Prod., Am. J.
Vet. Res., Aust. Vet. J. Breeder's Gazette, Cornell Vet., Ext. Ser. R.,
JAVMA, J. Animal Sci., Vet. Med., V R, & Western Horseman. A valuable
idea.


Year Published: 1978
Author: Mayhew, Edward
Title: Illustrated Horse Management [reprint of 1888 ed.]
Comments: Interesting--lots of good advice on stable design, hygiene, and
some history and good advice on shoeing. On nailing: "The arrangement of
nails near to the outer edge, and the fixing of them into the hard outer
wall of the crust, are methods still followed, though experience has
demonstrated that such numerous bodies, driven almost perpendicularly into
a thin and a brittle substance, were better calculated to break the hoof
than ...to hold.."About 38 pages on the foot and shoeing.


Year Published: 1978
Author: Kazmierczyk, Jozef
Title: Podkowy na Slasku w X-XIV wieku: studia z dziejow kultury
materialnej / Jozef Kazmierczyk
Comments: "Horseshoes in Silesia in the 10th to 14th century: a study in
cultural artifacts."It has a summary in German, and 10 pages of
bibliography.


Year Published: 1978
Author: Simpson, J. Scott
Title: How to Build Horseshoeing Tools & Equipment
Comments: Mr. Simpson gives plans for over 20 items--covering most
everything needed to shoe horses, from coal forge, hopper, and fire tongs,
to shoeing box, foot stand, stall jack and apron. This is an interesting
reflection of the changes in the shoeing profession in the last 12 years.
When this book was written, most of these items were typically
homemade--today less than 10 percent of them would be homemade. Save this
for the next horse market crash.


Year Published: 1978
Author: Holmstr”m, John Gustaf
Title: Standard Blacksmithing, Horseshoeing and Wagon Making.
Containing... A Rational Treatise on Horseshoeing and the Anatomy of the
Foot of the Horse, Suited to the Demand of Horseraisers, Veterinarians,
Farriers...etc.
Comments: 110 p. on shoeing. "It is useless to object.... We may have
ironed horses for twenty-five years or more and studied and experimented,
but we must appear to know nothing, for these 'great' horsemen have heard
something from someone, or read something about something, and of course
they know it all, and the mechanic and artist of sixty must humbly submit
to the wishes and whims of ignorant men and oftentimes boys not out of
their teens."Condemns short shoes as not the way to cure overreaching
(p186). Hooray!


Year Published: 1979
Author: Simpson, J. Scott
Title: The Mechanics of Shoeing Gaited Horses
Comments: A well organized, clear and practical guide for the shoer who is
interested in shoeing gaited horses. Explains the theory and practice of
weighted shoes and padded build-ups, and deals with practical solutions to
common problems. "Band clamps must be tightened prior to working the
horse, and loosened after the work is completed. ...It may be wise to
place a narrow strip of inner tube beneath the bands on some feet."


Year Published: 1979
Author: Vaudour, Catherine
Title: Le Mar‚chal-Ferrant / Catherine Vaudour et Brigitte Hermann
Comments: "The Horseshoer"A somewhat romantic look at horseshoers and
the art and history of horseshoeing. In the back is a list of shoeing
schools in France and Belgium; also a list of museums -- 5 French ones,
and Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI.


Year Published: 1979
Author: Wells, Ellen B.
Title: Horsemanship: A Guide to Information Sources. Volume 4 in the
Sports, Games and Pastimes Information Guide Series / Ellen B. Wells,
Rare Book Librarian, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Comments: Although this book does not contain any section on shoeing
books, it has a great deal of valuable information about sources for horse
information in general--where to find them and how to use them. An
excellent reference. While reading many old shoeing books I am reminded
of this quotation in Wells, of William Steinkraus: "I can recall my
astonishment, when I first began to collect books on the techniques of
riding, at finding, in bookswritten two or three centuries ago,
minute descriptions of 'discoveries' that I had made for myself only after
a long period of trial and error...." About horse books in general, Wells
says: "Estimates of the number of books on horses and horsemanship range
from seven to ten thousand titles in Western European languages.
...original texts...nearer to four thousand titles."


Year Published: 1979
Author: Xenophon, the Historian
Title: The Art of Horsemanship. by Xenophon. Translated, with Chapters on
the Greek Riding-Horse and with Notes, by Morris H. Morgan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Harvard University[reprint of 1893 edition]
Comments: This is the earliest known work on horsemanship, and "Even after
more than 23 centuries it is still... a sound and excellent guide..."
(Morgan) Xenophon was friends with Socrates. As Xenophon was known to
have gone on a military expedition of nearly 3000 miles, as horses cost
huge sums, and as they did not use horseshoes at that time, his advice on
the selection and maintenence of horses' feet is particularly noteworthy.
He is particularlyinsistent that the hoofs should be kept dry: "Even
naturally sound hoofs get spoiled in stalls with moist, smooth floors.
The floors should be sloping to avoid moisture, and to prevent smoothness,
stones should be sunk close to one another, each about the size of the
hoofs. The mere standing on such [completely dry] floors strengthens the
feet." (p. 28)


Year Published: 1980
Author: Turner, Diane E.
Title: Understanding Your Horse's Lameness: The causes, symptoms, and
treatment of hoof and leg ailments clearly described in language for the
layman
Comments: Intended as basic information for the novice, which it is--in
plain language: "A good farrier keeps records of each horse he does--when
it was last shod, condition of its feet, etc.--and may wish to observe
your horse both standing and at a trot before he works on him. ...A good
farrier handles horses gently. He may punish a horse for being bad, but
not for being frightened or ignorant. And he knows the difference."


Year Published: 1980
Author: Magner, Dennis
Title: The Classic Encyclopedia of the Horse
Comments: All of "Magner's ABC Guide to Sensible Horse-shoeing" is
contained in "The Classic Encyclopedia of the Horse"/"The Standard Horse
Book"--in fact, the references in the text of "see page 108", or "see page
355" as well as the content and layout of each page is identical in both
books--ABC, of course, has no page 108, or 355. Encylopedia/Standard has
additional material of interest on hoof diseases, and on training horses.


Year Published: 1980
Author: Clark, James [U.S.]
Title: Shoeing and Balancing the Light Harness Horse [reprint]
Comments: This book has been reset, so it is difficult to know how
faithful it is to the original. The introduction to this reprint
says the author is employed by "Harness World" while the original
says "Horse World". The rest of it sounds like genuine information from
someone who had first hand experience."A horse that is suffering the
slightest pain in his feet... no matter how game he is, he will sour on
his work...."He says he is employed by "Horse World" which would indicate
that his profession is writing, but despite his not mentioning that he has
ever shod a horse, he writes more like an experienced farrier than many
who have claimed experience.


Year Published: 1980
Author: Snyder, Ralph E.
Title: Emergency Horseshoe Replacement How to Replace or Tighten a
Horseshoe by Ralph E. Snyder. An Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide on How to
Replace or Tighten a Horseshoe Safely and Easily Until Your Horseshoer
Arrives!!
Comments: This is a unique book. It is the only one that provides just
the basic information needed to handle a lost shoe "emergency." The
illustrations and instructions are clear and accurate. "I hope it will
establish a better understanding between the horse owner and farrier. Any
step in this direction will ultimately benefit the horse whose safety and
comfort so often depend on the co-operation of these two people."


Year Published: 1980
Author: Prince, Leslie B.
Title: The Farrier and His Craft: The History of the Worshipful Company of
Farriers/ Leslie B. Prince, CBE Master 1955-56. Forward by HRH The
Princess Anne Mrs Mark Phillips, GCVO
Comments: Mostly information taken from meeting minutes: "Mr. Dollar
[1903] has made certain charges against the Registration Committee....
'That the Registration Committee had flooded the country with densly
ignorant farriers' and that 'for some years there has been no legally
elected Registration Committee, the body of which has assumed that name
being constituted quite otherwise than provided in the original
prospectus.'"(pg. 117)


Year Published: 1980
Author: Simmons, Marc
Title: Southwestern Colonial Ironwork: The Spanish Blacksmithing Tradition
from Texas to California / Marc Simmons and Frank Turley
Comments: "Farriery under the Spanish system was more closely allied to
veter- inary medicine than it was to smithing. Both horseshoers and
veterinarians were subject to regulation and examination by a govt.
official, the 'proto- albeiterato'. All veterinarians were not
necessarily horseshoers, but under Spanish law all shoers had to be
veterinarians who could bleed, treat wounds and lameness, and minister to
internal ailments." (pg 11) Nice history & ills.


Year Published: 1980
Author: Fleming, James Evans
Title: The Blacksmith's Source Book. An Annotated Bibliography
Comments: Although his book is written for blacksmiths, he lists several
books that deal briefly with horseshoes or horseshoeing. It is notable
that all of the blacksmithing books he lists that deal with shoes and
shoeing were written after 1900 -- during the time blacksmithing and
horseshoeing were most confused.


Year Published: 1980
Author: Adams, Ora Robert
Title: Lahmheit bei Pferden
Comments: "Lameness in Horses" translated into German.


Year Published: 1980
Author: Leach, Douglas Harold
Title: The Structure and Function of the Equine Hoof Wall [PhD thesis
-- U. of Saskatchewan]
Comments: Part of this also appeared in the American Farriers' Journal
around 1982.


Year Published: 1981
Author: Smith, Myron J., Jr.
Title: Equestrian Studies: The Salem College Guide to Sources in English,
1950 - 1980
Comments: This one is noticeably short on books about horseshoeing, but is
reflective of the general horse-owning public's perception of horseshoers
and the literature. It lists dozens of articles on shoeing in general
interest horse magazines--most of the titles will shock you: "The Brutal
Farrier", "Evils of the Anvil", "Fearless Farriers: Frightful Cures",
"How to Shoe a Horse", "Young Man--Old Trade", and "Can You Beat That
[Anvil]"?!?


Year Published: 1981
Author: McRaven, Charles
Title: Country Blacksmithing
Comments: About 10 pages on horseshoeing.


Year Published: 1981
Author: Rooney, James R.
Title: The Mechanics of the Horse
Comments: Rooney covers the basics of the biomechanics of the horse, and
introduces some valuable concepts: "In all considerations of force and
energy, there must be equilibrium. Eventually, both sides of any equation
must equal each other and, therefore, become zero." Because the tubules
of the wall are strongest end to end, "It is the 'intention' of these
structures, the laminae, to lie parallel to the forces imposed on them."


Year Published: 1981
Author: Lungwitz, Frederick Clement Anton
Title: The Complete Guide to Blacksmithing, Horseshoeing, Carriage and
Wagon Building and Painting. Based on the Text Book on Horseshoeing by
Professor A. Lungwitz With Chapters on Carriage-Ironing...etc. by Charles
F. Adams
Comments: It is easy to figure why Crown Publishers calls this division
Bonanza Books--you just take any book whose copyright has expired and
reprint it. For this book's curious origins please read the 1902 entry.
Although much of the book bears little resemblance to Lungwitz's writings,
it is not completely without merit. He often sounds experienced. "In
order to maintain the hoof in a healthy condition, abundant exercise is
indispensable."Bless his heart: "Horn is porous and absorbs water readily.
If too much water is absorbed, the horn is, of course, weakened. The
natural protection to this is the varnish-like outer wall, and when this
is removed by rasping, moisture is more easily absorbed...." (p60) [also
p54]


Year Published: 1981
Author: Sharp, Jay
Title: Jay Sharp's Notebook and Guide for Forging Horseshoes
Comments: A notebook and guide for the proper size and length steel to use
to make shoes. "Farrier blacksmithing is not properly done by guesswork.
...you may not see tape measures or rulers, but the skilled farrier is
using a measuring device. It may be marks on the anvil or other places of
convenience. And when you see the finished shoe fit to the horse's foot,
it wasn't a lucky guess...." The 2nd of 2 books on forgework for
horseshoers.


Year Published: 1981
Author: Serra, Armando
Title: Ferrari e vetturini a Roma dal Rinascimento all'Ottocento
Comments: "Iron craftsmen and cab drivers of Rome..." This book deals
with the history of a multi-professional university that trained bit
makers, sword makers, lance makers, caldron makers, and horseshoers. As
early as 1495, the horseshoers had to pass an examination consisting of
shoeing and medically treating a horse.


Year Published: 1981
Author: Illinois,
Title: Report and recommendations on the Act for regulating the business
of horseshoeing: Ill. rev. stat., 1979, ch. 111, par. 3001 et seq.
Comments: On two separate occasions I tried to get a look at this, but it
was "not on the shelf" both times. The Illinois horseshoers law was
repealed (or allowed to die) shortly after this report. The Library of
Congress notes that this includes bibliographical references.


Year Published: 1982
Author: Rodder, Fritz
Title: Gesunder Huf -- gesundes Pferd: Anleitungen--Praxis--Fallbeispiele.
Mit 126 Fotos und 12 Zeichnungen.
Comments: "Healthy Hoof--healthy Horse..."


Year Published: 1982
Author: Mishra, P.
Title: Extrinsic and intrinsic veins of the equine hoof wall [M.Sc.
Thesis -- U. of Saskatchewan]
Comments:


Year Published: 1982
Author: Van Kraayenburg, F. J.
Title: A Comparative Study of Haemodynamics in the Equine Digit [M.Sc.
Thesis -- U. of Pretoria]
Comments: Dr. Leach notes that this mentions the discovery of a navicular
sphincter valve, which reduces blood flow to the navicular area.


Year Published: 1982
Author: Grimshaw, Anne
Title: The Horse: A bibliography of British books 1851-1976 with a
narrative commentary on the role of the horse in British social history
as revealed by the contemporary literature
Comments: Over 3000 horse books are listed, author, date, and title; and
divided by category (Horsemanship, Farriery, Veterinary, etc.)--with brief
comments on many of them, and short historical essays between each period
that explain the changes going on in the horse world of that time. A
valuable reference.


Year Published: 1982
Author: Hoffer, M. A.
Title: Anatomy of the Equine Navicular Bursa [M.Sc. Thesis -- U. of
Saskatchewan]
Comments:


Year Published: 1982
Author: Holmstr”m, John Gustaf
Title: American Blacksmithing and Twentieth Century Toolsmith and
Steelworker Both Complete in one volume, etc. [reprint of Holmstr”m's
1913 ed. "Modern Blacksmithing...", & Holford's "Twentieth Century
Toolsmith..."]
Comments: This contains about 50 pages on the horse, and shoeing. He
pictures the standard steel (not aluminum) racing plates of the day, etc.
Advises: "No board of examiners should allow any horse-shoer to pass an
examination merely because he can answer the questions put to him in
regard to anatomy ...these names are easily learned, but practical
horse-shoeing is not learned in hours; it takes years of study and
practice."This is the best I've seen of the "Modern Blacksmithing..."
bunch, but the others--"Standard..." is better, and "Scientific..." better
still. Robin Bledsoe has listed another similar title by Holmstr”m and
Holford: "American Blacksmithing Toolsmiths' and Steelworkers' Manual"
Chicago: F. Drake for Sears, Roebuck, 1911, 1913, and 1916--254p., 47p. on
shoeing.


Year Published: 1983
Author: Jones, Donald R.
Title: N.C. Atmospheric Gas Forge Manual: Corrective Shoes Fashioned from
Keg or Machine Made Shoes by Donald R. Jones, Drawings - Jeff Routh,
June 1983
Comments: Practical instructions and clear diagrams show forging
techniques to reshape standard keg shoes into shoes with clips, trailers,
square toes, and/or bars. This booklet was given out with his new
"atmospheric" forge which (unlike the previous gas forges) did not require
a blower.


Year Published: 1983
Author: Simpson, J. Scott
Title: The Mechanics of Horseshoeing Simplified
Comments: Just what the title says. Simpson has a knack for the art of
explaining clearly and simply. For those who have never shod a horse, he
describes simply, and in detail, how to handle the feet, pull old shoes,
trim the foot, shape and nail on the shoe, and finish the foot. Most
notable, and useful, is his system of 5 basic shapes for the ground
surface of the hoof--called Norman, Spike, Stubby, Tag, and Ralph.


Year Published: 1983
Author: Trapani, Jerry
Title: Equine Hoof Care: The Horse Owner's Guide to Healthy Hoof
Maintenance
Comments: More of a general overview of farriery than an owner's guide to
hoof maintenance, it deals with the history of shoeing, and the various
types of shoes used, why horses need shoes, and common problems. "Hoof
dressing should not be applied too often, because some dressings.... may
rot the wall underneath, causing what is called 'punky feet.' Nails
holding the shoe will be unable to take a good hold, causing loose and
lost shoes...." (p23)


Year Published: 1983
Author: Hajek, Renate
Title: Chirurgische Eingriffe am Huf des Pferdes in der Stallmeisterzeit
unter besonderer Bercksichtigung tierqu„lerischer Massnahmen [inaug.
diss.]
Comments: "Surgical operations on the hoof of horses during the
'Stallmaster' period [1250c-1762c] with special emphasis on cruelty to
animals" From the English summary pg. 153: "The following hoof illnesses
will be discussed: Laminitis..., Corns and Bruised Sole, Shoe nail
puncture..., Toe cracks, Contracted Foot or Contracted Heels,...'Ficus'
(Canker) and Quittor. Representative texts of similar healing methods
from the 13th - 18th centuryhave been quoted literally and compiled in
chronological order. ...Critical examination of used surgical methods is
undertaken." The book has 10 pages of bibliography.


Year Published: 1983
Author: Lieberman, Bobbie, ed.
Title: The Hoof: Keeping it Balanced, Keeping it Healthy
Comments: Some nice distinctions and good information on corns and cracks.
e.g. "Do the edges [of the crack], apart during unloading, press together
during loading? Here you've spotted an unusual crack, and it has to be on
the toe. ...when a large blood-filled bruise (hematoma) under the wall
loosens the attachments between the dead exterior and the living interior,
the scene is set for such a rift."(pg 27)


Year Published: 1983
Author: Fournier, Isabelle Anne Marie Jouve
Title: La fourbure aigue du cheval: donnees bibliographiques recentes.
[ThŠse]
Comments: "Acute laminitis in the horse: giving recent bibliographies"


Year Published: 1983
Author: Hickman, John
Title: Der Richtige Hufbeschlag.
Comments: A German translation of Hickman, 1977?


Year Published: 1983
Author: O'Connor, Karen
Title: Try These on for Size, Melody
Comments: Sounds rather juvenile, doesn't it? Actually, I was rather
surprised to see a well-done photo essay on the steps of shoeing a horse.
Douglas K. Emry did the photographs.


Year Published: 1984
Author: Hermans, W. A.
Title: Hoefverzorging en HoefbeslagW. A. Hermans m.m.v., G. Hartman, A.
W. Kersjes; Illustraties: F.A. Blok, A.J.M. Lurvink.
Comments: "Hoof Care and Horseshoeing"It has 1 page of bibliography.


Year Published: 1984
Author: Hickman, John, ed.
Title: Horse Management
Comments: This is an excellent book. Besides the 50 pages on shoeing
condensed and improved from Hickman (1977) there are similarly well
written chapters on Equine Reproduction, Housing the Horse, Foods and
Feeding, Stable Management, and Exercise and Training--each chapter
written by a different author--each an authority in his field.


Year Published: 1984
Author: MacGregor, Christine M.
Title: Studies of the Pathology and Treatment of Equine Navicular Disease
[PhD Thesis -- U. of Edinburgh]
Comments:


Year Published: 1984
Author: K”rber, H. D.
Title: Huf, Hufbeschlag, Hufkrankheiten 2. Aufl.
Comments: "Hoof, Horseshoeing, Hoof Diseases"


Year Published: 1984
Author: Abdin-Bey, M. Racin.
Title: Atiologie und Pathogenese der Hufrehe beim Pferd: eine
Literaturstudie. [inaug. diss.]
Comments: "Etiology and pathogenesis of equine laminitis. A Literature
study."
It contains a summary in English.


Year Published: 1984
Author: Hood, David Martin
Title: Studies on the pathogenisis of equine laminitis [thesis --
Texas A&M]
Comments: OCLC notes it has 15 pages of bibliography.


Year Published: 1985
Author: Crotts, Leonard
Title: Shoeing to Win
Comments: Crotts is very observant and his years of experience are
apparent. The many photographs of horses in motion and his analysis of
them is enlightening. Given particular attention are: Arabians, Trotters
and Pacers, Polo ponies, and Hunter/Event types. "Long a standard with
harness racing people, the half round shoe is one of the better shoes one
can put on a horse. The half round shoe doesn't MAKE the horse do
anything...it ALLOWS."


Year Published: 1985
Author: Dohrmann, Jr., William F.
Title: 101 Things you can Build from Horseshoes
Comments:


Year Published: 1985
Author: Prietz, Gerhard
Title: Huf- und Klauenkunde: mit Hufbeschlaglehre. Von Veterin„rrat
Dozent Dr. sc. med. vet. Gerhard Prietz ehem. Oberarzt am
Wissenshaftsbereich Chirugie und R”ntgenologie der Sektion Tierproduktion
und Veterin„rmedizin...
Comments: "Hoof and Claw Knowledge: with Instruction in Shoeing"


Year Published: 1985
Author: Butler, Karl Douglas, Jr.
Title: The Principles of Horseshoeing II: An Illustrated Textbook of
Farrier Science and Craftsmanship by Dr. Doug Butler Professor of Animal
Science Northwest Missouri State University. Revised and Enlarged Edition
Comments: This is the standard text for shoeing schools. Based on the
excellent 1st edition, 1974 (q.v.), the added information is mostly on
shoeing for specific breeds or uses, and on general horse management.


Year Published: 1985
Author: Moore, William J.
Title: Balancing and Shoeing Trotting and Pacing Horses [reprint of
Treatise... (1916c)]
Comments: "Farriers that can level and balance feet of rough gaited
trotters and pacers to assist nature in correcting faulty action are very
scarce, some of them cannot think long enough while cutting with the rasp
and knife, and the first thing you know they have cut one side of the foot
too low and are not able to cut the opposite side on a level...." --I
bet trained monkeys could probably do the job better. See also notes on
Moore, 1916.


Year Published: 1985
Author: Muybridge, Eadweard
Title: Horses and other animals in Motion 45 Classic Photographic
Sequences [reprinted from Animals in Motion, 1887]
Comments: Nice time sequence photographs of horses in motion. Shows the
gaits in every phase of a stride, and also shows how some transitions from
one gait to another are accomplished. Clearly shows the position of hoofs
as they land (toe first or heel first?), and breakover. Today's 35mm
cameras with a 5 frame per second motor drive can catch about 3 frames of
a horse going over a jump--he shows a sequence of 9 frames. Very
enlightening.


Year Published: 1985
Author: Leschke-Ramcke, Brigitte
Title: Zusammenstellung der deutschen Patente im Hufbeschlag. [inaug.
diss.]
Comments: "A compilation of German patents for Horseshoeing."


Year Published: 1985
Author: Brunken, Gerd.
Title: Die prognostische Bedeutung der rontgenologischen Untersuchung bei
der chronischen Hufrehe des Pferdes. [innaug. diss.]
Comments: "The prognostic significance of x-ray studies of chronic
laminitis in horses."


Year Published: 1986
Author: Amos, Leroy
Title: Limbs of the Equine
Comments: A series of colored overlays drawn on transparent sheets which
allow you to "peel off" or add layers to see the relationships of the
various anatomical structures.


Year Published: 1986
Author: Gonzales, Anthony Z.
Title: Proper Balance Movement: A Diary of Lameness
Comments: "People often ask what balance means to me. There are three
answers to this question. Balance means balancing the horse's hoof.
Also, balance means balancing the natural horse's conformation. Finally,
balance means balancing a horse to carry its rider's weight." A very
promising start, but he leaves the question unanswered--the book is warm
and interesting reading, but if you are looking for anything concrete,
look elsewhere.


Year Published: 1986
Author: Leach, Douglas Harold
Title: Navicular Disease. Summary of the First International Seminar on
Navicular Disease by Doug Leach, PhD(FYI Special Report)
Comments: An excellent summary and overview. "The radiographic diagnosis
of navicular disease is based on finding either an increased or decreased
amount of bone tissue in specific areas of the navicular bone.
Importantly, diagnoses based on the presence or absence of radiographic
changes do not always correlate with what is seen clinically. No
radiographic feature is specifically diagnostic of navicular disease.
Many clinically diagnosed caseslack radiographic evidence of the disease
while other patients with marked changes are sound." (pg. 6)


Year Published: 1986
Author: Sandforth, Klaus Peter
Title: Der Spat des Pferdes: eine Literaturstudie.
Comments: "The Spavin of Horses: a Literature Study" this contains an
English summary, and is, I suppose, an inaugural dissertation.


Year Published: 1986
Author: Langfeldt, Norbert
Title: Statistische Untersuchungen zum Problemkreis der Podotrochlose: ein
Vergleich allgemeiner, klinischer und rontgenologischer Parameter am
Patientenmaterial der Klinik fr Pferde der Tierarztlichen
Hoschschule...etc.
Comments: "Statistical studies of the problem range of navicular
diseases..." Another inaugural dissertation, with a summary in English.


Year Published: 1987
Author: Magner, Dennis
Title: Magner's ABC Guide to Sensible Horse-shoeing [reprint of 1899]
Comments: Extensively quotes other leading authorities of his time, as
well as making insightful comments of his own. About the "one sided
nailing" promoted by Turner and Miles etc. he says: "If the nails are
driven [in the 'one sided method']... for the purpose of affording more
freedom to the quarters, it will be found that as the foot grows, the
shoe will be carried to the outside quarter and toe... [and cause] a corn
[on the inside heel]."


Year Published: 1987
Author: Hayes, Matthew Horace
Title: Veterinary Notes for Horse Owners: An Illustrated Manual of Horse
Medicine and Surgery 17th Edition. Captain M. Horace Hayes, F.R.C.V.S.
Revised by Peter D. Rossdale, Ph.D., F.R.C.V.S.
Comments: This latest edition seems to have little information on shoeing
of any substance, however this is true: "There is considerable controversy
over the value of hoof oils and dressings. There is little or no evidence
that oiling hooves is of value in the normal animal and it is probably far
more important that the feet should be kept cleaned out (particularly the
sole of the foot) and the horse not left to stand in damp conditions."
[p.302]


Year Published: 1987
Author: Guzm n Clark, Carlos
Title: El Casco y la Herradura del Caballo
Comments:


Year Published: 1987
Author: Stashak, Ted S.
Title: Adams' Lameness in Horses, 4th ed.
Comments: Same old prejudice and ignorance about farriery. Of the 50
pages on shoeing, 10 of them are on classification of horseshoes and nails
showing the different styles and sizes--"Nature plates" (not manufactured
for 15 years) are shown, the insane 2-trailered shoe is still here,
wide-webbed aluminum shoes, popular for the last 15 years are not shown,
but 30 styles of racing plates are.... though the rest of the book is
excellent.


Year Published: 1987
Author: Dollar, John Archibald Watt
Title: A Handbook of Horse-Shoeing... etc. [reprint of 1898] by Jno. A.
W. Dollar & Albert Wheatley
Comments: An invaluable reference--but written by veterinarians for
veterinarians. Although there is lots of valuable information, there is
no real understanding or feel for the work being done--nor is there any
appreciation of the unique viewpoint and value of the person doing the
work. Yet Dollar, a member of the W.C.F., did complain about the great
numbers of unqualified persons being granted RSS (Registered Shoeing
Smith) certificates.


Year Published: 1987
Author: Mller, Hans Ulrich
Title: Der Einfluss verschiedener Hufbeschage auf den Bewegungsablauf der
Vordergliedmassen beim Trabrennpferd.[Inaugural Dissertation /
Tierarztliche Hochschule Hannover; 1987 (no. 67)]
Comments: "The influence of various types of horse shoes on the movement
of them forelimbs in standardbred horses."From the English summary, pg.
80: "In a literature review, the author describes different types of shoes
used for the forelimbs of Standardbred trotters. It is made clear that
the cited authors disagree about the effect of weight, angular adjustment
and roller motion on equine locomotion."


Year Published: 1987
Author: Caldwell, Mark
Title: Pre-Navicular Syndrome: Results of a study into its diagnosis and
treatment. (FYI Special Report)
Comments: A wide variety of subtle symptoms are described, enabling an
earlier diagnosis: "The farrier is in the ideal position to observe
changes in a horse's feet, far more so than the owner or veterinary
surgeon, and especially if the horse is shod in a regular routine.
Dramatic change can occur in the shape of a hoof in a six-week interval;
other changes can be longterm and insidious." (pg 7) A variety of
treatments and their rates ofsuccess are also discussed: "Ostblom (1982)
claimed 58% success (permanent relief of signs) with the use of the egg
bar shoe without drug therapy." (pg 13)


Year Published: 1987
Author: Ashdown, Raymond
Title: Color Atlas of Veterinary Anatomy: The Horse. Raymond R. Ashdown,
BVSc, PhD, MRCVS, Emeritus Reader in Vet. Anatomy, U. of London; Stanley
H. Done BA, BVetMed PhD MRCVS, Former Lecturer in Vet. Anatomy, RVC...etc.
Comments: A remarkable, and impressive book, which places clear
photographs and detailed drawings side by side. The drawings are labeled
to identify the parts physically, and the photos enable you to better
visualize the parts in relation to a live horse. 42 pages on the anatomy
of the horse's foot.


Year Published: 1987
Author: Duquette, David A.
Title: Horseshoeing for Horseowners
Comments: Who is this guy, who uses Dr. Butler's logo, and a name that
sounds like Dave Duckett? I was surprised to see that it contains a
number of well done photos for illustration, however, overall it is
incomplete, misleading, and almost as ridiculous as Gertz (q.v.).


Year Published: 1987
Author: Trout, D. R.
Title: Scintigraphic evaluation of digital circulation during the
development and acute phases of equine laminitis [thesis -- U. of
Calif. at Davis]
Comments:


Year Published: 1988
Author: Wyn-Jones, Geraint
Title: Equine Lameness
Comments: I think this book is not as informative as Adams or Stashak, but
found this interesting on navicular disease: "With the use of more precise
and full nerve block work-ups it has become clear that a high proportion
of cases responding positively to PDNBs show a residual lameness,
indicating pain higher up the limb. Investigation of this phenomenon...
has shown repeatedly that this pain is located in some... 3 distal limb
articulations."


Year Published: 1988
Author: Butler, Karl Douglas, Jr.
Title: Horse Foot Care
Comments: A short booklet on hoof care for the owner.


Year Published: 1988
Author: Hickman, John
Title: Hickman's Farriery: A Complete Illustrated Guide, Second Edition /
John Hickman, MA, FRCVS, Hon. FWCF and Martin Humphrey, BVMS, MRCVS, Dip.
WCF
Comments: Toe angle has been corrected somewhat to show 50-55 as normal
instead of 45 degreees. Best additions are egg-bar shoes, and Princess
Anne: "Unfortunately, many in the horse world today are not sure what a
healthy, well-shod foot should look like. Novice owners, especially if
competition minded, may not be sufficiently sensitive to the horse's
long-term needs and the farrier's role in the welfare of the horse is not
always appreciated."Still calls him Cranfield--and other mistakes.


Year Published: 1988
Author: Dehalleux, Fran‡oise
Title: Mar‚chalerie, 2nd rd
Comments:


Year Published: 1988
Author: Russell, William
Title: Practical Scientific Horseshoeing for Leveling and Balancing the
Action and Gate [sic] of Horses and Remedying and Curing the Different
Diseases of the Foot. Reprinted 10th ed. with over 600 illustrations
Comments: An odd, but important book. Although Russell won many
industrial medals for exhibits of his horseshoes (both hand and machine
made), tools, and horseshoe iron, and shows many types and styles of
shoes, he gives no instruction on making shoes, or forgework. There are
advertisements for numerous tools: "foot adjuster", "foot & leg adjuster",
compass, etc.Although Russell was called "Prof.", Fran Jurga says that
the book wasactually written by Sam Harris (FYI June 1988 p.11).


Year Published: 1988
Author: Karasszon, D.
Title: A Concise History of Veterinary Medicine
Comments: "Knights were proud of being skillful horseshoers. The
legendary hero of the age of chivalry, the great knight King Charlemagne
(768-814), shoed his horse himself. When shoeing his horse, he liked
making a show of his mighty strength and he has been recorded to have
broken into two a freshly-forged horseshoe." (pg. 169). "The king of
Norway, Olaf, king Eystein, and even Odin (Wotan), have been recorded to
forge." (pg. 170).Karasszon also notes the near worship of horses by the
ancient Romans: "Emperor Commodus (180-192) had the hooves of his horse
Pertinax gilded. ..Nero (54-68) robed his excel- lent race-horses in
extravagant togas and appointed his favorites to high official posts. He
insisted on giving the reverance concomitant with the post of the horse
and paying the corresponding salary." (p.105)


Year Published: 1988
Author: Kinnish, ed., Mary Kay
Title: Investigating Lameness: Sources of Leg Pain
Comments:


Year Published: 1988
Author: Taylor, Marie
Title: Treating Founder Without Shoes By Marie Taylor, Registered
Farrier, 18601 E. Via Del Rancho, Higley, AZ 85236 (602) 987-9144; PART
I: INTRODUCTION; PART II: APPLICATION--CASE STUDY; PART III: TREATMENT
Comments: This is an odd work published to promote Hoof Bond, an exterior
wall sealant. As with Hoof Bond's other promotions, it is rather bizarre.
Treating founder without shoes is neither new, nor bizarre, but the ideas
in this booklet are. The title of "Registered Farrier" is fictitious:
there is no group which gives that title, and Marie Taylor is not a member
of the AFA. For further credentials she says "I have read many articles
on hoofproblems and talked with a lot of veterinarians." She claims the
cause of founder is "That toxic gas somehow gets trapped in the sensitive
laminae. ...Now that made sense to me." This booklet contains a lot of
garbage, and very little, if any, information.


Year Published: 1988
Author: Morris, Rick
Title: ...What the Horse Left Behind: The Archeological Study of
Horseshoes [thesis]
Comments: Morris deals with the various horseshoe manufacturers; the
styles of their shoes; and their uses. An 11 page bibliography is
included. He is now working on a catalog of all U.S. patents on
horseshoes and related tools.


Ye