ON SHOEING GENERALLY. 
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before; and fixed the following day for operating. I went., and 
took an assistant along with me; had the cow thrown and pro¬ 
perly secured; and fixed the tourniquet a little above the place 
where I was to cut, to suppress the hsemorrhage. 1 performed 
the double flap operation. After making a circular incision 
through to the bone, then separating the muscles about three 
inches anteriorly and posteriorly for the flaps, I next tied the 
arteries; then sawed off the leg as close up to the muscles as I 
possibly could; and afterwards brought the flaps together, and 
stitched them with a strong thread; then bandaged the whole up, 
putting a little plaister on the bandages to make them stick, w hich 
was very difficult to do in consequence of the tapering of the leg. 
After the operation was over, and the cow again got into the 
house, I ordered them to give her some water to drink, which she 
took very freely; after which she began to eat some grass. The 
following morning I found her very dull and feverish : I gave her 
some physic, and desired them to give her plenty of water to 
drink. Next day the physic had operated well, increased her 
appetite, and she every day got better, and is now able to go to 
the fields and seek her meat the same as before. 
From the complete success of this operation, it is my opinion, 
that, in almost every case of a fractured leg, where the ordinary 
method of cure proves ineffectual, the life of the animal may be 
usefully preserved by the method of amputation which I have 
adopted. 
ON SHOEING GENERALLY, AND PARTICULARLY 
ON THE EXPANSION BAR SHOE. 
By Mr . W. Henderson, V. S., Edinburgh . 
A great deal has been said and written by one veterinary 
author after another on the most proper method of shoeing 
horses, until we are almost tired of the subject; and as far as we 
have heard or seen, their plans, patents, and systems have seldom 
or never fulfilled the sanguine expectation of the inventor, nor 
have they given that real satisfaction the public expected: and 
w ; e find the more they have deviated from the general mode of 
shoeing, the more have they erred ; and perhaps it would have 
been better for some of them had they contented themselves 
with trying to improve the shoes already forged (for I am sure we 
have enough of them), than puzzling their brains about the form¬ 
ation of shoes which, being in general too complicated, tend 
more to perplex and stupify the artist who makes them, than to 
