Science in the Stable: How a horse can be kept in perfect health and be used without shoes. From 1894!

This is worth checking out and was published in 1894.  Much of it still holds true today!  There are lots of good bits of information, such as this:  And thus we can see how futile must be the effect of poultices and wet applications and the various hoof ointments that are so much relied on to improve the texture and condition of the hoof They simply produce the effect of a temporary varnish, improving, perhaps, its appearance, and thus deceiving the eye without affecting in any way its substance. Click below to download the entire book in .pdf form.

Science in the Stable
OR,
HOW A HORSE CAN BE KEPT IN PERFECT HEALTH
AND
BE USED WITHOUT SHOES,
IN HARNESS OR UNDER TME SADDLE,
WITH
THE REASONS WHY.
JACOB R. LUDLOW, M. D.,
Late Staff Surgeon Ta. S, Brm?.
Lieut. Colonel by Brevet.
Easton, Pa.:
Press of The Eschenbach Printing House.
1894