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Mange and other cutaneous diseases , as if grease were a dis¬ 
ease of the brain or heart, or any other part about the animal but 
the veritable skin (of the heel). 
Next is put down farcy ; and pray what is farcy ? Does it 
not likewise inhabit the skin ? Is it found anywhere else ? And 
yet it is not ranked among cutaneous diseases ! 
Then, we have acute glanders and chronic glanders. And 
the glorious classification of “ diseases of the lungs arid 
chest!” Mind, the book does not say the lungs are not in the 
chest. After this comes a sweeper— diseases of the con¬ 
tents OF THE ABDOMEN. 
From this we need go on but to name the remaining “ classes/' 
to satisfy our professional reader that we have not over-rated the 
value of this military system of nosology : they are as follow : — 
Diseases of the Eyes. 
Staggers. 
Strangles. 
Catarrh and cough . (Is not cough a symptom of catarrh ?) 
Poll Evil and Fistula. 
Spavin and other Diseases of the Ilock . 
Contracted Hoofs. 
Sandcracks. 
Corns and other Diseases of the Feet . (Although sandcracks are 
set down just above.) 
Lameness from other causes. 
Accidents. 
Following which are four spare columns (there ought to be 
fourteen ) allowed for omissions of the nosologist, or the whims or 
fancies of the Keeper of the Records. 
An Army Veterinarian. 
ON THE METHOD OF HIRING SHOEING-SMITHS. 
By Mr. Charles Clark. 
I am desirous of calling the attention of my brethren in the ve¬ 
terinary profession, to a subject which has long and deeply in¬ 
volved the interests of every practitioner, particularly those in 
London. 
We are all in the habit of giving very high wages to our jour¬ 
neymen shoeing-smiths, at the rate of from 70 to £100 per 
annum, which is a higher remuneration, I will venture to assert, 
than any other class of workmen can command who can be com¬ 
pared to ours in point of knowledge and respectability; or, I 
might reverse it, and say, in ignorance, drunkenness, and un- 
