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Traite de Marechalerie Veterinaire ; comprenant V etude de la 
Ferrure du Cheval et des autres Animaux Domestiques, sous le 
rapport des defauts de V Aplomb, des Defectuosites * et des Mala- 
dies du Died. Par A. Rey* Professeur de Clinique* Patho- 
logic Chirurgicale, Jurisprudence* et Marechalerie a Pecole 
Veterinaire de Lyon. Lyon * 1852. 8vo* pp. 498. In- 
tricate des gravures. 
A Treatise on Farriery; comprising the Art of Shoeing Horses and 
other Domestic Animals , in relation to defects of Aplomb * Mal- 
formations , and Diseases of the Foot. By A. Rey* Professor 
of Clinique* Surgical Pathology* Jurisprudence* and Far- 
riery at the Veterinary School of Lyons. Lyons * 1852. 
Illustrated with woodcuts. 
Pas de fer, pas de cheval. 
No foot, no horse. 
We have in the above French work a Practical Treatise on 
Shoeing, in which no one thing appertaining to the subject is 
not described and explained to us. Its contents display a 
catalogue of every article and implement used in making and 
putting on horseshoes* proceeding in due form ab ovo usque ad 
inala. Commencing with the origin of shoeing, we are brought 
to consider the anatomy and physiology of the organ which 
is the subject of it. Then we are taken into the forge to look 
at everything there* not excepting even the iron of which the 
shoe is manufactured* and the fuel through which the iron is 
heated. Next we are led to consider the tools used in putting 
the shoe on, and the nails by which it is fixed to the foot ; 
the kind of foot and the kind of shoe ; with the shoes called 
pathological , from being adapted for diseased or malformed 
feet* or such as give a defective aplomb. Then come before 
us the means recommended for intractable or vicious horses ; 
the ill-consequences of shoeing, and what kind of shoes they 
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