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REVIEW.—CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. 
Mr. Gloag has judiciously forced it by direct experiments; and 
by these is gone for ever the theory and practice of lateral expan¬ 
sion of the horse’s hoof; and parallel plane shoeing is squeezed 
enough. 
Mr. Coleman in his Lectures invariably referred to predispo¬ 
sition from conformation, and also to position—particularly to the 
relative position—of the leg and foot; the position of the foot, also, 
in his directions for the applications of different kinds of shoes 
necessary for different horses. His students only know this, and 
not the proprietors of horses, who still think “ that one kind of 
shoeing should do for all horses ” Veterinary surgeons are a very 
small minority of persons engaged in directing the practice of shoe¬ 
ing horses; improvement in which cannot, by their means only, 
extend over so large a majority of shoeing smiths: through the 
pages of your Journal much, however, may be accomplished, if 
the subject were to be taken up by practical men capable of afford¬ 
ing information. 
The French veterinarians study both conformation and position, 
and attempt to carry out in practice their views; vide the “ adjus- 
ture,” the “ aplomb of the limb,” the “ curve of the toe and heels;” 
but whether it is a custom with them also to “ spring the heels” 
I cannot say, though some other Correspondent may be able to 
inform us. 
Stable treatment only has influence on the feet of horses deprived, 
in the unshod state, or by ordinary shoeing, of the action of the hoof, 
as proved by the treatment of the feet of horses in tropical climates 
with the Asiatic mode of shoeing. 
REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchruni, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.—Hon. 
CRUELTY TO Animals : a Sermon on the Responsibility of Man 
in respect to the Brute Creation. By the Rev. Geo. Pettitt, 
Missionary in the Diocese of Madras, and Curate of St. Philip’s, 
Birmingham. Pamphlet, 8vo, pp. 20. Groombridge, London. 
“ You are doubtless aware that a gentleman in this part of 
the country—Thomas Ingram, Esq., of Picknell, near Bewdley— 
whose tender-hearted benevolence deserves to be had in perpetual 
remembrance, made an arrangement, by a clause in his will, that 
