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Cauterization , actual or potential, by tire or chemical agents; 
how applied, how modified in sprain, weakness, enlargements, 
fungous growths, indolent ulcers, envenomed wounds : the prin¬ 
ciples on which they are founded, the effects which they pro¬ 
duce. 
Reductions , whether of hard parts, including fractures and 
luxations, or soft parts, as hernia. 
Compressions. The theory and application of bandages; their 
efficacy in many otherwise intractable cases; their inconveniencies 
and dangers; the mode in which they should be applied to va¬ 
rious parts. r 
Extractions of foreign bodies from different parts; the eye, 
the trachea, the oesophagus, the stomach, the bladder, the feet: 
the respective operations for these purposes. Mechanical assist- , 
ance in parturition. 
Trepanning , or perforating the hard parts, to give escape to 
liquids accumulated in their cavities ; perforations of the bone, 
the horn. 
The operations will be principally confined to the winter 
months; the treatment of surgical diseases will occupy the 
summer. 
Quid sit pulclirurn, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.—Hou. 
An Essay on the knowledge of the Ancients respecting the Art of 
Shoeing the Horse , and of the probable period of the com¬ 
mencement of this Art; by Bracy Clark, F. L. S. Mem¬ 
ber of the lioyal Institute of France , &c. Second edition, 
London, 1831. 
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We will venture to predict, that the veterinarian who chooses 
to possess himself of this learned production will experience no dis¬ 
appointment whatever from its prepossessing title. Mr. Clark has 
been at much pains to search the best authorities for information 
on this interesting subject, while, as he proceeds on his investi¬ 
gation, he has evinced considerable erudition and professional 
tact in appending such expositions to many passages in ancient 
