REGISTRY OF CAVALRY HORSES SHOES. 
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Fever. 
Dec. §th, Seven o'clock, P.M. — Bay mare, three years old. At 
evening stable hour she was found to be breathing very quickly, 
and to have refused her afternoon’s feed. She was placed in a 
loose box, and warmly clothed, and legs doubly bandaged. The 
pulse was between 60 and 70, and oppressed. The pituitary 
and Schneiderian membranes were injected. This mare the 
day previous had been in physic, which was only set this morn- 
ing. Gave a draught composed of tinct. opii 5jss and spts. 
nitr. aeth. Jjss, with aquae Oj. The head was to be held 
over the steam arising from scalded hay in a bucket. In about 
three hours the breathing was tranquil, and the next morning 
the mare knocked the door off its hinges by kicking, so that i 
considered she might safely be discharged from infirmary stables. 
Cases of this latter description are common. 
REGISTRY OF CAVALRY HORSES’ SHOES, COLD 
SHOEING IN SERVICE, &c. 
By J. T. Hodgson, Esq. 
To the Editor of 11 The Veterinarian .” 
Sir, — A BRIGADE of artillery horses were sent with Sir J. 
Moore’s expedition to Sweden : the fleet returned to Spithead, and 
from thence proceeded to the coast of Portugal. The horses, 
guns, &c., were landed at Mendego Bay. The horses had been 
four months on board of ship, and, though their feet had been 
attended to, yet, it must be allowed, could not be in the best 
order to proceed on a march ; still, they left the beach when the 
whole were landed, commencing the march in the evening, 
passing close to the field where the Battle of had been 
fought two days before. Now, here was a case of pressing 
necessity ; there was no time to fit shoes at the forge. Had 
each horse had a registered set of shoes, the men, fatigued as 
they were under the circumstances, would, in much less time, 
have shod the brigade. 
Again, when the park of artillery left Lisbon with General 
Hope’s division, there were some light carts, drawn by mules 
which had to be shod in the English method, when the cold 
shoeing method of the country was at once simple and expedi- 
tious. 
