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merly been used, I found many of them very long, 

 Avith nine or ten nails in them, and these pretty 

 close together, and chiefly at the heels ; by which 

 there was double the risk of laminsf the horses in 

 shoeing, and double the tendency to impede their 

 going, by the heels being bound, so as to prevent 

 their spring.'^ 



I am, however, open to confess, that I think Mr. 

 Bracy Clark's writings, which relate to the anato- 

 mical structure and functions of the horse's foot, 

 will amply repay the student for his time in reading 

 them repeatedly ; but with regard to this gentle- 

 man's views of the pathology of that organ, I am 

 completely at issue with him. 



The points of difference between us I shall en- 

 deavour to explain, at a future opportunity, in 

 another paper, which will embrace the general dis- 

 eases and accidents to which the horse's foot is 

 liable. 



I have now a few observations to offer in illus- eviis of the 



... Pill r»i/Y»Ar»* I •! method of shoe- 



tration oi the baneful eiiects or iron and nails upon ing^, as adopted 

 the elastic foot of the horse. In the discussion day. 

 which followed my two papers on the Nature of 

 the Navicular Joint Disease, its Causes, Symptoms, 

 and Treatment, it will be remembered by many 

 gentlemen present, that I proved to demonstration a 

 pathological fact, which was doubted by most of 

 the members then present; by some most strenuously 

 denied, and ocular demonstration demanded : of 

 course, this mandate was instantly obeyed ; and 



