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difficulty. I gave as small a quantity as aloes 3ij, with gentian 
3 iij or 3iijss: in fact, I varied it as the animals varied. 
Sincerely yours, 
T. Hurford. 
P.S. A surgeon in the Hon. E.I.C. service, a friend of mine, 
writes—“ 1 have for many years past known that bitter infusions 
added to purgatives (not alone) increase the action of the 
purgative. I constantly prescribe infusions of senna, or infusion 
of cheraita or gentian in equal parts, and find that less than 
half the usual dose of senna purges when thus combined. You 
will find the cheraita of this country as useful as gentian. Do 
you know that quinine given in fevers occasionally purges 1 I do. 
“ C. J. Smith, 
“ Surgeon, Mysore Commission.” 
REMARKS ON SHOEING. 
By Herbert Hallen, Y.S. Inniskilling Dragoons. 
To the Editor of u The Veterinarian f 
Piershill Barracks, Edinburgh, 5th April, 1852. 
Sir,—HAVING for upwards of thirty years taken great interest 
in the subject of shoeing horses, you will favor me by giving 
insertion to the following remarks :— 
To prepare the fore foot for a shoe, a level ground surface is made 
by a drawing knife and rasp, taking off the usual quantity of 
horn which would be worn away at the ground surface of the 
crust. At the toe there is a concavity made for the reception of 
the foot surface of the shoe at this part, caused by the turning 
up of the toe of the shoe. The heels are not what are generally 
termed opened by the drawing knife, neither is there a particle 
of the outside of the crust, sole, or frog removed. 
The form of shoe. —This is made flat on the foot surface, and 
concave on the ground surface throughout, excepting at the toe : 
which part is turned up so as to have the form (inferiorly) of a 
shoe worn some time. No clip at the toe or any part of the shoe. 
The nail holes are countersunk: five are used, three on the out¬ 
side and two on the inside, placed so as to retain the shoe 
securely on the foot, and, at the same time, to interfere as little 
as possible with the elasticity of the horn. 
Fitting the shoe to the foot. —Care is requisite to have an equal 
