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LETTER FROM R. C. ANTHONY. 



Boarding and Sale Stable, 133 Michigan Ave, ) 

 Chicago, III., January 24, 1876. j 



Dr. J. B. Coleman, 



Dear Sir : — In compliance with your request for my opinion 

 as to the value of the special modes of treatment which you 

 practice and teach, I have to state that of nearly fifty cases 

 that you have treated for me, or that I have treated after re- 

 ceiving your instructions, I cannot recall a single instance of 

 want of success in the treatment. They were all cases of foot 

 diseases in some form or another, the greater part I should say 

 were those of contraction, corns, and quarter-crack. Some 

 were believed to have been navicular disease, but whether they 

 were or not they became sound. One was a case of canker in 

 which the sole and nearly the whole of the crust had separated, 

 yet the canker was arrested and a new foot grown out, and the 

 life of a valuable animal saved, which, I think, would have 

 been impossible by any other means than those you adapted. 

 Your clear insight into the general and particular causes of 

 every malady that affects the foot of the horse, and above all 

 your simple, rapid, painless and effective cure of cases usually 

 deemed incurable, or of doubtful cure, such as Navicular Di- 

 sease, Acute and Chronic Founder, and badly contracted feet, 

 stamps you, in my estimation, as a genius in all that pertain 

 to the foot of the horse whether in health or disease. 



No one can appreciate this statement until they have been in- 

 structed by you in this special branch of horse-knowledge. I 

 can safely recommend all horse-men, no matter what they 

 know already, to avail themselves of your personal instructions 

 upon this subject, feeling assured they will not be disappointed, 

 nor regret the outlay. It is important that horse-men should be 

 made aware of the very marked influence your treatment has 

 over all irregular action, such as hitching, broken-gait, inter- 

 fering, etc. Nothing conduces more powerfully to regulate 

 and perfect action, and to the development of speed than the 



