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the old or apply some fresh dressing, according as may seem to 
be indicated. 
Supposing the Corn to be in a contracted Foot, and 
there be reason for believing that it is anywise connected, 
either in causation or in duration, with the state of con- 
traction the hoof is in, no shoes will prove so beneficial, when 
once the corns, supposing them to be in a state of sore, are 
horned over and able to bear pressure, as tips, the heels of the 
hoof being left during exposure at their full height. 
Prevention of Corn. After what has been stated, it must 
be obvious that the prevention of com is to be sought in the forge 
— that, in fact, it consists in proper shoeing. Coleman, in his 
“ Lecture” on the subject, from which I have already made an 
extract or two, virtually acknowledged shoeing to be the pro- 
ducer of corn when he said to his pupils — “ But I will venture 
to say, if a horse continue to be shod under your care, he will 
never have a corn.” The shoeing, therefore, which gives rise 
to corn is faulty, and the correction of its faults has proved the 
prevention of corn. No great heed has been taken of either 
the morbidly thick sole or of contraction as causes of corn, and 
yet has corn been got rid of. This is tolerably convincing 
proof that shoeing, if not wholly, at least in the great majority 
of cases, was in fault. Therefore to shoeing let us look for our 
prophylactic. To shoeing, indeed, we have looked, and in shoe- 
ing we have found our remedy : the main consideration being, 
that no shoe should be of a shape, or be so nailed upon the foot 
as, to endanger its heel coming down, presently or remotely, 
upon the seat of corn. 
THE RECENT INFLUENZA AMONG HORSES. 
By J. W. Gloag, M.R.C.V.S., 11th Hussars. 
To the Editor of u The Veterinarian 
Sir, — I f you should consider a short account of an epidemic 
which has lately affected the horses of the 11th Hussars at this 
station, interesting to the readers of The VETERINARIAN, it is 
much at your service. 
I am, Sir, your obedient servant. 
Nottingham, Oct. 10, 1851. 
In the middle of August of this year, an influenza broke out 
among the horses of the 11th Hussars at head-quarters, and for 
a time raged with considerable violence. Our strength was 
