ON THE ONE-SIDE NAILING. 
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small puncture, from which, on pressing it, oozed a little bloody 
fluid. There was a corresponding spot on the inside of the skin, 
and the mark of puncture, but now closed without — there was 
also a corresponding black mark, and some oozing on the 
omentum. The inflammation was set up by this minute wound 
in the omentum, or, more probably, by the slow oozing of blood 
into the abdomen. 
Jan. bih, 1834. — Bonnet Monkey. This monkey, hitherto 
in good health, sits of a heap on his perch, with his head between 
his legs, breathing laboriously, yet, when roused, he will eat. 
Give two grains each of calomel and antimonial powder. 
6th . — Died in the night. No inflammation of the lungs, 
but a few minute tubercles in the substance of it. The omentum 
was beautifully studded with concrete granular bodies, from the 
size of a pin’s head to that of a pea. The spleen was completely 
surrounded by them, and a prolongation of peritoneum extend- 
ing to the pelvis was also covered. How could such a disease 
exist so long without any marked symptom to detect it, or be so 
suddenly fatal ? 
ON THE PROGRESS OF THE SIDE-NAIL SYSTEM 
OF SHOEING, 
IN REPLY TO MR. CHARLES CLARK. 
By Mr. James Turner, Regent Street , London. 
Gentlemen, — It appears to be the general opinion among the 
curious, and those learned in horse matters of olden time, that 
the practice of securing iron shoes to the feet of horses by nails 
driven and clenched within the hoof, has existed about one thou- 
sand years; and we all know that both quarters or sides of the hoof 
have been in requisition, and universally rivetted, for this purpose, 
down to within a few years of the present day, excepting only 
(and the exception allowed by very few persons) when the horse 
had contracted an awkward and dangerous way of going. Without 
staying to comment upon the enormity of the offence perpetuated 
by this rude shackle on the highly organized internal foot, permit 
me to congratulate you, more especially the original Editors of 
The Veterinarian, on the approaching subversion of this 
old and ruinous system of shoeing horses. 
When this shall be superseded by the unilateral or unfettered 
