ON SHOEING THE HORSE. 
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age of the Commonwealth; and having been presented by Sir 
Joseph, were placed for a few days, by some inadvertency, in the 
same case with the Herculaneum relics, which gave rise to 
the report. Whilst examining these shoes, I was desired by the 
curators of the Museum to examine another curiosity, which they 
were unable to give any feasible account of, and which was an 
ancient tablet, representing a horse or chariot race, with the horses* 
legs having some unaccountable envelopments, which they doubted 
the propriety of representing: those, on examination, I pronounced 
to be the bands alluded to by Apsyrtus, under the name of 
hippopodes, and are probably identical with the fasciola men¬ 
tioned in the above passage by Vegetius.” 
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“ That the ancients defended their horses’ feet in this simple 
manner there can be little doubt; and, as a sort of collateral con¬ 
firmation, there is to be seen in the collection of pastes, or im¬ 
pressions from engraved stones of the ancients, now preserved in 
the British Museum, and formerly belonging to Baron Stosch, 
the representation of a soldier in the act of applying a defence of 
this description to the horse’s legs; at least, the attitude he is in 
makes it probable that such is his object: he appears kneeling 
down in front of the horse, with his right hand grasping the 
off-leg, while another soldier standing by is holding up the other, 
>bent backwards to the elbow, assisting him. Besinger imagines 
this soldier is applying the shoe of broom about the shanks, which 
we should be led rather to doubt, and to conjecture that it is with 
more probability these same hippopodes, as the broom not being 
used on the road, hardly needed to have been carried so high up 
the legs to be fastened on sufficiently.” 
We here take leave of our author, whom we shall always meet 
with pleasure on this his favourite and peculiar ground; and we 
do assure our readers, that they will not be displeased with the ex¬ 
cursion to which he invites them. 
ISxtracts from fournate, foreign anti Dommtr* 
A new Cure for Glanders. 
[Extracted from one of Dr. Elliotson’s Chemical Lectures.] 
I will take this opportunity of mentioning, that I have re¬ 
ceived a letter from a gentleman respecting the treatment of 
glanders in horses. In consequence of being honoured (and I 
