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ing of the shoe takes place equally upon the wall of the toe and 
of the quarters, especially the external, and it does not rest on the 
diseased heels which may have been first cut away. Some vet¬ 
erinarians prefer the truncated, or the oblique bar shoe, or that 
with a bar forming an acute reentering angle; Hartmann recom¬ 
mends the first; Mayer prefers the bar shoe in which the bar or 
heels have been thinned down, and even hollowed, to avoid as 
much as possible the pressure on the diseased part; this shoe has 
sometimes given us good results in horses with a weak frog. In 
many cases, ordinary shoeing answers ; then the diseased hoof is 
pared down. The branch of the shoe in this case requires 
a greater thickness. Whatever may be the mode of shoeing used, 
much advantage can be obtained by the application of a sole of 
leather or of gutta percha. 
(7b be continued .) 
EPIZOOTIC CELLULITIS, OR PINKEYE, AT CIN¬ 
CINNATI, 
By J. C. Myers, Jr., M.D., V S. 
A brief account of the epizootic cellulitis, or what is com¬ 
monly termed pinkeye, as it attacked horses and mules at Cin¬ 
cinnati may not be out of place if the communication reaches you 
before the disease itself has infested the east. 
After having made its appearance at St. Louis and Chicago it 
arrived at Cincinnati about the 20th of September, beginning at 
the western portion of the city, which lies on the Mill Creek 
Valley, a lowly situated effluvial district. The outbreak was not 
general in its attack. It hovered over the western locality about 
three weeks before it picked upon stables in the central and east¬ 
ern districts of the city. The proportion of horses and mules 
attacked by the malady varied greatly in the different stables, 
regardless of their immediate surroundings and hygienic condi¬ 
tions. Some stables had their entire stock invaded, others 
between 90 and 33 per cent, or less, but in the majority of in¬ 
stances 75 per cent, were attacked to a greater or lesser extent. 
