b THE HISTORY OF 



works have been as much admired and read for the pecuhar 

 style in which they are written, as for the real information 

 they contain. 



Bartlet, who was a successor to the two former, was 

 hkewise a surgeon : he formed himself on the model of 

 Gibson and Bracken, and he gave the sum of their treat- 

 ment in a much more compendious and practical form. He 

 likewise benefited the art by translating La Fosse's im- 

 provements and discoveries : but Bartlet is to be noticed 

 principally as a copyist and compilator, for he brought 

 forward little of his own, except a cruel and absurd altera- 

 tion in the mode of nicking. 



To him succeeded Osmer, who was also initiated a 

 human surgeon, but afterwards practised as a veterinarian in 

 Oxford Street. His Treatise on the Lamenesses of Horses, 

 with an improved mode of shoeing, is most deservedly 

 esteemed, and his practice was adopted with some slight 

 alterations, by the late Mr. Morecroft. He first commented 

 upon La Fosse's method, and pointed out the excellence of 

 his mode of treating the feet ; at the same time showing 

 that the short shoe was inadequate to the support and 

 protection of the foot in the present improved and hard 

 state of our roads. The practical part of this treatise on 

 lamenesses is likewise excellent, and will hand his name 

 down as one of the early contributors to the success of the 

 art. The next luminary in the veterinary horizon was Clarke, 

 of Edinburgh, the king's farrier for Scotland, whose excel- 

 lent Treatise on Shoeing and the Diseases of the Feet was after- 

 wards followed by a work on the Prevention of the Diseases 

 of the Horse generally ; these succeeded the publication of 

 the engravings of the Muscles of the Horse, by Mr. Stubbs, 

 the professional horse painter, who, to high excellence in 

 his art, added a very considerable knowledge of the general 

 anatomy of the animal. 



SECTION HL 



THE HISTORY OF THE VETERINARY COLLEGE. 



The period of the establishment of a National School 

 will ever remain a memorable epoch to the veterinary 



