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REVIEW. 
1. That hot shoeing, executed in conformity with the methods 
recommended and practised up to the present day, is incon- 
testably superior to cold shoeing, inasmuch as it at all times 
affords the smith an opportunity of adjusting the shoe to the 
foot, which is the fundamental rule of shoeing with every good 
workman, and an immense advantage over cold shoeing. 
2. That cold shoeing, practised according to the means at 
present in vogue, at the same time that it proves in a general 
way more difficult of execution, and longer of performance, 
and in consequence more expensive, is, generally speaking, less 
compact and less durable. 
3. Yet, nevertheless, fitly put into practice by a skilful 
workman, cold shoeing is capable of being performed without 
danger, and even with advantage, under certain exceptional 
circumstances. 
4. That the objections made against hot shoeing are equally 
applicable to cold shoeing, with the exception of burning the 
sole. 
5. That this last accident, at all times a very rare one, hardly 
ever is attended with the tristful effects attributed to it. 
6. That therefore there exists no reason at the present day, 
plausible or worth any thing, why cold shoeing should be 
substituted for hot shoeing. 
7. Lastly, that the advantages ascribed to the practice of 
shoeing called podometric, especially that which enables us to 
prepare the shoes beforehand, in the absence of the horses, and 
to fit them away from the forge, have not been duly rated ; 
but that were they, still would they not, in all cases, compensate 
for attendant inconveniences. 
Continuing our search through this interesting veterinary 
miscellany, we come to a communication to the Society from 
M. Bouley, junior, on the subject of 
Lameness arising from Rupture of the Flexor 
Metatarsi, OR Tibio-pr e-metatar sens Muscle. 
Prefacing his observations with the remarks, that all the 
world unite in the opinion that nothing in clinical veterinary 
medicine presents so great difficulties as the diagnostic of 
lameness, and that, consequently, thereby the difficulty of pre- 
scribing becomes enhanced, he refers to a case of lameness 
reported by him ten years ago in the “ Recueil Veterinaire ,” 
which simulated fracture of the tibia, the inductions from 
