Horses with flatfoot should be shod with a shoe having a wide web, pressing on the wall only, while the heels and frog are never to be pared.
In flatfoot there can be little or no elasticity in the sole, for the reason that it has no arch, and the weight of the animal is received on he entire plantar surface, as it rests upon the ground instead of on the wall.
Flatfoot generally has weak walls, and as a consequence the nails of the shoe are readily loosened and the shoe cast.
The secondary consequences offlatfoot are interesting.
If the arch has not yielded much, it is often unnecessary to prescribe flatfoot braces or arch supports of any kind, unless perhaps at first.
Merely following the advice to wear flatfoot braces in their shoes relieved these patients almost as if by magic.
Flatfoot is likely to cause considerable deformity in the old, the toes becoming bent and twisted up, and the subjects of it complain very much of their feet.
There is true gout, and it is probably almost as frequent with us as it is in England, but many of the so-called cases are really flatfoot associated with development of the bunion that so commonly occurs as the arch yields.
There was no need to measure them particularly; all they needed was an ordinary set of flatfoot braces.
For beginning flatfoot this is a curative measure and it is the natural mode of treatment for the coldness and numbness of the feet.
Of the cases in my experience of so-called rheumatism in the legs, over one-half are due either to flatfoot or to the incipient yielding of the arch which is called weak foot.
There is, at the present day, a tendency to recommend too freely the wearing of flatfoot braces or arches.
Flatfoot is taken, however, only as an extreme and therefore striking illustration.
This, of course, might be expected, but it is surprising how often the significance of beginning flatfoot fails to be noticed even by the physician.
Before the benevolent physician could reach her, the Flatfoot had taken her in tow, and both were rapidly leaving him.
It was ascertained that the Chalmetta had received no serious damage in her hull; and as all the survivors had been picked up, the Flatfoot took her in tow, and proceeded up the river.
Emily, as she saw the Flatfoot approach the wreck.
Let's chart the wheel thirty-eight times, then pick one of the numbers that hasn't come, and play itflatfoot three times running.
Flatfoot Bar was a portion of the terrestrial sphere, it was but natural to expect its denizens to be in bed at that hour.
Chagres Charley, in the most sympathizing tones ever heard at Flatfoot Bar.
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