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A WORD ABOUT ALOES. 
By the Same. 
For some years past I have used a solution of aloes made 
in this form: 
5b Aloes B.B., Ibij. 
Sodse Carbon., Ibss. 
Aquae, Oj. 
The ingredients are placed in a water-bath, and allowed to 
remain until the aloes and soda are dissolved. 
The aloes being combined with an alkali, I find much 
more serviceable in cases of dyspepsia than in any other 
form in which I have prepared the solution. 
Many a horse has come to the infirmary with what has 
been termed colic, and I have administered from four to six 
ounces of this solution with a little water, and in half an 
hour the animal has left, and at once resumed his work. 
There was a time when it was considered that the greater 
the number of drugs which were crowded into a prescription 
the greater the amount of talent possessed by the writer. 
Now-a-days, however, we hold a very different opinion. The 
more simple our prescriptions are, the more are they to be 
depended on. 
EVIDENCES OF THE ANTIQUITY OF ATTACHING 
THE SHOE TO THE FOOT OF THE HORSE 
BY NAILS. 
Dear Sirs, —From the favorable manner in which you 
have spoken of the paper on horse-shoes, by H. Syer Cuming, 
Esq., and which I extracted from the Journal of the Archaeo¬ 
logical Association, I venture again to trespass on your space, 
and to ask you to reprint some additional observations by 
the same author, which I also take from the society's journal. 
The additional notes chiefly confirm by facts the opinion 
expressed by the author with reference to the undoubted 
antiquity of nailed horse-shoes, and as such they give 
increased interest to the subject. 
It is to be hoped that in publishing this paper, some of 
your readers will be induced to give us the benefit of any 
