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FIFTH PAPER; 

 Veterinarian, Vol. IV, p. 126. 



THE ART OF HORSE-SHOEING SIMPLIFIED AND UN- 

 FETTERED; OR THE BENEFIT OF THE IRON DEFENCE 

 WITHOUT THE BANE, BY AN IMPROVED METHOD OF 

 NAILING. 



[Read at the Veterinary Medical Society, Feb. 9, 1831.] 



Gentlemen, 



By the title of this paper you will perceive that 

 I am about to refer to two former papers of mine, 

 on Side-nailed Shoeing, published in the July and 

 September numbers of The Veterinarian for IS29. 



Having nothing to suggest on the method of 

 shoeing now in common use in this metropolis, I 

 shall not occupy your time by the details of a sub- 

 ject with which we are all so familiar, but propose 

 forthwith to submit to your consideration a variety 

 of advantages accruino; from the new unfettered 

 system of shoeing by side-nailing : but I fear you 

 will accuse me of too much enthusiasm, on my 

 A new era in venturins: tlic prediction of two events; first, that 



veterinary ^ *■ 



history. jj- ^v^iU very shortly be generally practised through- 



out these kingdoms ; secondly, its beneficial elfects 

 will become so manifest, even to the most pre- 

 judiced eye, that it will be hailed as a new era in 



