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and their growth increased. After two or three shoeings the 
foot will become capable of withstanding the action of the 
hardest surface, and the shoes themselves become well bedded 
into the crust, so that it will be impossible for them to come 
off under ordinary circumstances. The sole will soon com¬ 
mence its increased growth, and thicken to an almost in¬ 
credible extent, and thereby one of the difficulties in the use 
of the new shoe will be got over.” 
A short chapter is devoted to a consideration of some of 
the diseases of the foot likely to be benefitted by the Charlier 
Shoe, and another chapter which concludes the essay refers 
to the method of preparing the foot and applying the shoe. 
Those who have not tried the system will find in Mr. 
Pallin’s little book many reasons w r hich will induce them to 
adopt it, and those w T ho have tried and failed may discover 
the causes of their non-success, and be encouraged to a fresh 
attempt. 
The statements of the advantages and disadvantages is 
the most candid which we have seen, and the author has best 
served the cause he advocates by avoiding all exaggerated 
praise of the new system of shoeing or sweeping condem¬ 
nation of the older methods. 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
INFLUENZA AMONG THE HORSES IN AMERICA—HISTORY 
OE THE DISEASE, THE CAUSE, AND CURE. 
By Prof. James Law: 
{Continued from p. 138.) 
The theory of a steady progress in one direction is dis¬ 
proved by the history of the present outbreak, and that of its 
simultaneous appearance over an entire continent or hemi¬ 
sphere, by the record of all recent visitations of influenza. 
It has sometimes been eight or ten months, or more, in 
spreading over a large country like Germany. Nor is its 
progress uniform. That of 1762 appeared in London in the 
beginning of April, in Edinburgh in the beginning of May, 
and in Cumberland, intermediate between the two towns, not 
until June. The present epizootic appeared in Toronto 
abbut the 1st October. Nine days later, there was scarcely 
a horse to be seen in the streets, and carriages could not be 
hud for any price. On October 18th it prevailed in 
