MR. TdRNEU'S ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION. 135 



therefore, Mr. Turner became entitled to all the merits of a dis- 

 coverer ; and, wisely, lost no tim.e in making his discovery known 

 both to Professor Coleman and Assistant-professor Sewell. This 

 communication was made in 1816. No reply was given at the 

 time to it by either of the Professors ; but Coleman, as I am 

 informed by Mr. Turner, soon afterwards made " ample acknow- 

 ledgments" of the discovery publicly in his lectures. And this 

 I believe to be a faithful account of the history, comprising the 

 discovery and publicity, of Navicularthritis. 



Subjoined is a copy of the communication originally made by 

 Mr. Turner to Messrs. Coleman and Sewell ; a document which 

 has never appeared in print, and which I should not, but through the 

 trouble Mr. Turner has kindly taken to search for it amidst heaps 

 of other papers, have been able to lay before my readers on the pre- 

 sent occasion. Unfortunately, there is no date attached to it : still, 

 the fact of copies having been sent to both the Professors at the 

 London Veterinary College, in the year 1816, will sufficiently 

 attest its age : — 



fCopi/.J 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISEASE OF THE FOOT OF THE HORSE 

 COMMONLY CALLED FOUNDER, OR GROGGY LA.MENESS, BUT, 

 BY MODERN PRACTITIONERS, CONTRACTION OF THE FOOT. 



I WAS induced to direct my particular attention and study to this 

 disease, in the first place, because our best treatment and great- 

 est exertions were generally unsuccessful; — secondly, in the course 

 of practice I was frequently obliged, in obedience to the opinion 

 of the day, to pronounce to the owners of horses thus afflicted, 

 that contraction of the foot was the disease, when, in fact, they 

 were often good-looking open feet. This complaint was formerly 

 described by the terai Chest Founder, supposing it an affection of 

 the muscles of the shoulders and chest, but since the establish- 

 ment of the Veterinary College, contraction of the foot, consider- 

 ing that from the horny box being diminished in size, its capacity 

 is not equal to its contents, consequently the sensitive parts of the 



