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THE IMPERFECT KNOWLEDGE OF 
from the beginning, the possibility of saving either the young 
one or the dam. 
My hand and arm were, in the early stage of the case, often 
and long in the vagina and uterus of the animal. The foetus was 
even then in a state of decomposition. The numbness again 
and again produced by the action of the uterus was very great. 
Either my hands were not quite sound, or, from the effect of the 
pressure, I became inoculated, and a cutaneous eruption, attend¬ 
ed by considerable inflammation and swelling, appeared on my 
arm, and particularly about the wrist: I could scarcely bend my 
arm. 
Dec, 1837.—It was long before I could conquer the eruption, 
and to the present hour it occasionally returns. My assistant’s 
arms were in the same condition; but he has quite got rid of the 
evil. The head keeper shared the same fate. 
THE FETERINARIAN, FEBRUARY 1 , 1838 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
We are neither surprised nor sorry that the debate on ‘Hhe 
principles of shoeing” should have been somewhat strongly ani¬ 
madverted upon by a few of our country practitioners. It was a 
noble subject; but not quite fitted for such an assembly, and the 
time allowed for its discussion. It involved too many interest¬ 
ing yet difficult points ; and then, as is generally the case, the 
plainest and most superficial are seized, and those on which de¬ 
pended a correct and useful knowledge of the physiology of every 
important part of the foot, the art of maintaining the full per¬ 
fection of its functions, and of relieving its occasional ailments, 
were altogether untouched, or treated with a degree of careless¬ 
ness and haste unworthy of them. 
The foot!—the principles of shoeing ! How many essential and 
distinct questions might be mooted with regard to them, and each 
occupying its evening, or more evenings than one, pleasantly and 
profitably ! Well; we acknowledge that it was not the best of 
