iv adverti^:mknt. 



ll is my present purpose to collect them together, 

 with additional important facts, in order that they 

 may appear in a more convenient form, and serve 

 as a Text-Book to a more enlarged icork on the 

 Structure, Functions, Diseases, and Treatment 

 of the Horse's Foot ; which, I shall venture, at no 

 very distant period, to lay before the public, accom- 

 panied with coloured plates descriptive of the healthy 

 and morbid conditio7i of this important and very 

 complex organ. 



I hope to demonstrate, that we may continue 

 to have iron rivetted to the horse's foot, and yet pre- 

 serve the necessary capacity of the horny box 

 throughout the animal's life-time, together zoith the 

 natural and expanded appearance of the external 

 hoof. 



The confidence which I have gained since my 

 papers were first published, the result of extensive 

 practice and unwearied observation, has so confirmed 

 me in the soundness of the several doctrines zchich I 

 have therein laid down, that I do not hesitate to 

 pledge myself to my prnfessioncd brdhrrn, that those 

 data lolll J'orni the gromuhcork of my future labours 

 in this intricate and interesting pursuit. 



