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CHAPTER XII. 



ESTABLISHMENT OF THE LONDON VETERINARY SCHOOL. M. ST 



BEL. MOORCROFT. THE aUALITIES OF A GOOD SHOE. COLEMAN. 

 ERRORS IN PHYSIOLOGY. CONCLUSIONS OF COLEMAN AS TO 



SHOEING. IMPRACTICABLE SHOEING. BRACY CLARK. EXAGGER- 

 ATED NOTIONS AND RE-DISCOVERIES. FUTILE EXPERIMENTS. 

 VARIOUS WRITERS. MR GOODWIn's METHOD. ITS RECOMMEND- 

 ATIONS AND APPROPRIATENESS. ITS COMPOSITE CHARACTER. 

 PREPARATION OF THE HOOF AND APPLICATION OF THE SHOE. 

 ERRORS IN THIS METHOD. THE BAR AND JOINTED SHOE. 

 DISCOURAGEMENT OF VETERINARY SCIENCE IN BRITAIN. THE 

 UNILATERAL SHOE. YOUATT AND HIS TEACHING. MILES' 

 METHOD OF SHOEING. ITS FALLACIOUSNESS. HOT-FITTING. 

 HALLEN AND FITZWYGRAM's METHOD. ITS DISADVANTAGES. 

 MAVOr's PATENT SHOE. 



Towards the termination of the i8th century, a 

 veterinary school, which might be termed private, was 

 commenced in London, and its first teacher, M. St Bel, 

 published a small treatise on shoeing. This, however, 

 appears to be nothing more than a commendation of 

 Bourgelat's method. The shoe advised to be worn, 

 nevertheless, was concave on the ground surface, to corre- 

 spond to, or resemble, the concavity of the sole, and plane 

 towards the hoof, something like the hunting-shoe of the 

 present time. It was constantly used when the College 

 was first established. More important was the little work 



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