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ness and facility as they would ordinary shoes, without any 
tool or additional utensil whatever. In fact, the concave 
shoe is very little more than the ordinary shoe — which is 
now ordered for the cavalry service — - turned upside down . 
We are pleased to find that the paring away of soles, and 
thereby subjecting the feet to injury, is done away with by 
the present regulations ; and can only further wish that the 
concave shoe, instead of the one now in ordinary use, had 
been likewise recommended. We feel quite certain, the 
service would have been benefited by this latter recom- 
mendation, and that then the British cavalry might boast of 
a system of shoeing which would have been the admiration 
of all such as have paid the most attention to this much 
litigated question. 
We have forborne to take any notice of “ Major’s British 
Remedy’’ for the cure of spavins and so forth, until evidence 
of some sort, of a character on which we could rely, had come 
before us. At the time Mr. Major made known his arrival in 
this country from America, with the intentions promulgated 
in his advertisements, we were among the first to seek him, 
and make propositions to him respecting a fit and proper 
subject we had at the time for experiment, and which was 
at first accepted, but subsequently rejected, on the score of 
there being “no room” for his admission into Mr. Major’s 
Infirmary, in Shepherd Street. Trial of his remedy on this 
subject — a 7-year-old horse that had been both blistered and 
fired for spavin — would have enabled us, of our personal ob- 
servation, to have spoken, either in praise or dispraise of the 
“ British Remedy.” In the unfortunate absence of a case so 
likely to turn out desirable for all parties, we refer our 
readers to the following truthful statement we have received 
from Mr. Daws : — 
That the march of intellect has made rapid strides in the 
improved education of the veterinary surgeon cannot be de- 
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