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education) that there is nothing new m the plan 

 recommended by Captain Blagrave ; it merely 

 trains us back to those errors, which a practice of 

 twenty years has endeavoured to remedy. 



I confidently repeat to your Royal Highness, 

 that a deliberate conviction of the absurdity of 

 the practice now recommended by Captain Bla- 

 grave more than twenty years ago, led to the sys- 

 tem of shoeing and treatment of the horse's foot, 

 as at present practised by the Veterinary College ; 

 that such practice has fully been proved to answer 

 every expectation, and that so far from the Vete- 

 rinary Surgeons in His Majesty's service having 

 occasion to be ashamed of their theory in their 

 practice^ a steady adherence to the principles of 

 the former, is their best security for success in the 

 latter. This is most triumphantly proved by the 

 entire removal of those diseases (which were the 

 result of the very mode of shoeing now recom- 

 tnended by Captain Blagrave J ; many of these dis^ 

 eases, such as cankered feet, &.c. &c. were /or- 

 merly fatal. All of which are now utterly un- 

 known throughout His Majesty's cavalry. 



If there was any truth in the principles laid 

 down by Captain Blagrave, it would naturally 

 follow that in exact ratio as the frog of the horse's 

 foot was exposed to come in contact with hard 

 substances, would it be liable to become (what 

 he terms) braised, and consequently diseased; 

 whereas (unfortunately for this position) the direct 

 reverse is the case invariably. And your Royal 



