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«ign or ability to discuss it upon. Like many other cvils^in society, 

 it \8, in fact, much easier felt and perceived, than remedied.. — 

 Nevertheless, I am not without hopes, that what I have loosely sug- 

 gested, may be acted upon by the humane and enlightened, in such 

 a way as to be productive of some partial ^ood at least, to the com- 

 munit}'. 



Before I proceed to enumerate any further particulars, respecting 

 the management of the Feet, I feel myself called upon to notice a 

 work lately publi.shed by Mr, Bracy Clark, of London, containing a 

 series of experiments on the Foot of the living Horse, in the course 

 of which performance, Mr. Clark has evinced the same profound sa- 

 gacity and unwearied diligence, which have distinguished the former 

 productions of this gentleman's pen. It is to be regretted, however, 

 that the plan upon which he has treated his subject, (which was, per- 

 hap.s, in a great measure insepas&ble from the nature of the intricate 

 objects of his research) should have rendered the intrinsic merit of 

 the woik, not very easy to be perceived, or appreciated by the ge- 

 neral reader. 



But, this ought not to lessen the value of the performance, in the 

 estimation of the scientific Veterinarian. For, Mr. Clark has un- 

 doubtedly shewn us much more distinctly, and unequivocally, than 

 any preceding author has done, that the nails of the shoe, are the ^ 

 great exciting cause of the mischief and derangement, which take 

 place, in the internal mechanism of the Horse's Foot. And, although 

 some be inclined to assert that this gentleman's researches have onl}' 

 led to a more complete delopement and discovery of a melancholy 

 evil, which we were partly aware of before, and for which he has 

 not ventured to suggest a remedy, yet to have rendered this essential 



