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CHAPTER I.
Springs and Brakes to Vehicles 1
CHAPTER II.
Douglas on Horse-shoeing—Street Accidents and Brakes—Lord Pembroke and Mayhew on Servants 10
CHAPTER III.
Nostrums—Arsenic and Antimony—Hoof-ointments—'Stoppings' 17
CHAPTER IV.
Litter—Xenophon and Lord Pembroke on Bare Paving for Stalls—Physicking and Blistering—the Bearing Rein 22
CHAPTER V.
Shoeing—Lord Pembroke on Servants—Lupton on Farriers—Fitting the Foot to the Shoe—Calks—Injurious Effects of fitting Shoes by burning them on—Douglas on Cold Fitting—Shoeing in Spain—Brushing 29