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REVIEWS. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — H or. 
Traitt de Marechalerie Veterinaire ; comprenant V etude de la 
Ferrure du Cheval et des autres Animaux Domestiqnes , sous le 
rapport des defauts de V Aplomb, des Defectuosites , et des Mala- 
dies du Fied. Par A. Rey, Professeur du Clinique, Patho- 
logic Chirurgicale, Jurisprudence, et Marechalerie a l’ecole 
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. 
( Continued fromp. 258.) 
We broke off in our “ Review 99 last month, in considering 
the principal evils attributed to shoeing ; we have now pre- 
sented to us certain “ inconvenient s" occasioned by the 
operation, the greatest of which is the constriction of the 
foot. To remedy this M. Rey says, that we (English) after 
the plan introduced by Mr. Turner, make use of the uni- 
lateral shoe, a shoe in use in France for a long time by the 
name of ferrure a la turque (Turkish shoeing), for horses who 
cut. And this shoeing is still practised in France, though 
upon too limited a scale to pronounce what its general 
adoption would amount to. 
After all that can be said against nailed shoes for horses, 
however, M. Rey comes to this conclusion : — 
“ Let us conclude that it is a practice we cannot do with- 
out : a conclusion founded principally upon the immense 
service we owe to it. And when we come to compare the 
number of horses so shod, employed in the most laborious 
work, with the rarity of accidents occasioned by shoeing, we 
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