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more in conformity with the fore foot than is done with us. 
From the manner of adjusting their shoe, the calkins do not 
become levers as they would in the stumpy way that our 
horses go with such appendages, in which case the nails 
would be broken and the shoe loosened. 
In England, the nail holes are stamped in the shoe nearer 
the extremity of the heels than Mr. Meyer recommends, but 
the shoes being shorter with us, the position of the nails in 
the hoof would not differ much in the two cases. 
When we investigate such a subject as shoeing, as prac- 
tised in different countries, the whole system of each country 
must be thoroughly learnt to be understood. The French 
shoeing, of all others, is undoubtedly by far the best as a 
whole ; especially would it be for England, considering its 
complete adaptation to all our wants, applicable alike to the 
dray-horse and the Shetland pony, the hunter, the race, and 
park-horse. Nevertheless, there is much special good in the 
best German shoeing, as taught in the schools of Berlin, 
Stuttgart, and other parts. For frost shoeing, the German 
is the best we know of ; and on seeing their horses going 
with freedom over snow and ice, drawing a sledge or carriage 
at great speed, the question has occurred to us — what \fpWi 
an English army lose in a northern winter campaigi 
horses shod according to English practice, compared 
with its horses shod on German principles ? 
Contagious Eruptive Disease of the Genital.^ in 
the Horse, — Maladie du coit of the French; Beschalkrank^ 
heit (stallion’s disease) of the Germans. — A long essay, occu- 
pying upwards of forty pages of the Reciieil de Medecine Vete^ 
rinaire , during the months of April, May, and June, appeared 
on the above disease, by M. Ch. Rodloff, of Posen ; it was 
analysed and translated for the French journal by M. Ver- 
heyen. Hertwig’s memoirs on the subject in the Berlin Vete- 
rinary Magazine for 1842, p. 269; and 1847, p. 373, are, like 
all the other productions of this learned author, full of accu- 
rate information, and Rodloff adds some facts of interest, but 
alters in no way the teachings of the Prussian professor. 
An innocent and a malignant eruptive affection of the 
organs of generation in the horse have been described. They 
are essentially distinct diseases. Both exanthematous affec- 
tions, the benignant one has been termed Aphtha , or Bhly cte- 
noid eruption of the genitals; whereas the malignant form, 
very indefinitely named, because obscure in its real nature, is 
known by the appellation of chancre plague , or malignant 
disease of stallions. 
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