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and breathing quick, as heretofore. Inflammation and swelling 
disappeared from stifle, and attacked both hocks, particularly the 
right one. Continued fomentations, febrifuges, and laxatives. 
21st, Excessive lameness and pain, and constitutional disturb- 
ance ; lies down the greatest part of her time ; bowels relaxed. 
Give tonics, and foment the joints as before. 22d, Great 
prostration of strength ; total blindness ; effusion into the 
aqueous humour since yesterday ; deep-seated abscess in hock, 
which burst, and a foetid discharge issued therefrom ; loss of 
appetite ; no hopes of her recovery. 23d, Died. I discovered 
effusion in the thorax and abdomen; serous effusion in the eyes; 
stifle joint healthy ; hock joints completely mortified. 
P.S. — Ophthalmia was a new feature in this disease. 
REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — H or. 
/ / / 
Bulletin de la Societe Centrale de Medecine Veterinaire, 
publie par les Soins de son Bureau, et redige, par M. H. 
Bouley, Secretaire Annual. Anees 1844-45-46 : Tom. Premier, 
Paris, Labe, 1827. Bulletin of the Central Society of Veterinary 
Medicine, published under the Direction of its Committee, and the 
Editorship of M. H. Bouley, the Annual Secretary. For the 
Years 1844-5-6. Vol. I. Paris, Labe. 1847. 
PURSUING, in the pages of the work before us, viz., the 
“Bulletin” — the interesting subject we found ourselves engaged 
upon when we closed the “ Review” in our number for last 
month, we find the members of the Central Society of 
Veterinary Medicine of Paris engaged in lengthy and im- 
portant discussions, day after day, solving the knotty point, 
whether the practice of shoeing ought to be hot or cold , and if 
the former were attended with any drawbacks, or the latter 
possessed any advantages, and, if so, what these drawbacks and 
advantages respectively were. After sifting the matter in 
every possible way, both through historical research and the 
opinions of the most learned veterinary professors present, the 
Society ultimately came to the following conclusions: — 
