56 THE HORSE. 



The loss of hoof sometimes succeeds the founder, 

 originating either in the disease or the operations 

 of the farrier. The tread of some groggy horses 

 appears to be entirely upon the heels. The canker 

 in the foot usually arises from grease and ulcerated 

 thrushes. 



The remedy now in this country, of nerving, for 

 otherwise incurable grogginess and founder, assured- 

 ly must not be passed over unnoticed. From several 

 unsuccessful instances a few years since, I treated 

 this practice (in the Sporting Magazine) as a mere 

 useless and ingenious specimen of farrying torture, of 

 the monstrous varieties of which, I had long been 

 heart-sick. But on a reference since to the books of 

 Mr. White and Mr. Goodwin, I have learned that 

 the operation is by no means so painful as that of 

 firing, generally a useless practice ; and that, on the 

 average, nerving has been successful, useful, and ac- 

 tually relevant of the animal from a constant state of 

 pain. Of the mode of operation, it would ill become 

 me to say any thing; that is in the department of our 

 scientific and practical veterinary surgeons alone. I 

 have however one remark to make on Mr. Goodwin's 

 recommendation of the practice. He first of all gives 

 due and just acknowledgment to Mr. Sewell of the 

 College for proposing it, but subsequently styles it 

 Mr. SewelFs discovert/. Now, I have always under- 

 stood nerving to be a discovery of the French school, 

 many years since. We may indeed have been 

 indebted to Mr. Sewell's exertions for the successful 

 introduction of the practice. 



