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Cure, with the details of a plan which I hope to 

 see hereafter recognized as legitimate treatment. 

 Bnt I am sorry to be under the necessity of lengthen- 

 ing this paper for the purpose of giving utterance 

 to the disappointment and chagrin which I feel at 

 New iinf. tter- tlic worsc than cold reception the new unfettered 



ed plan of shoe- i p i • i • i i r • 



iiig, as received plau of sliocmo^ lias met with at the Royal Veteri- 



at the Royal ^ » •' 



VeteriiiaiyCoi- nary College. I repeat the words, worse than cold; 

 because had the innovation in question on the old 

 method of shoeing been boldly and flatly condemned 

 as worse than useless by both the Professors, I should 

 not have had any just cause for the complaint I 

 am about to make, however severely I might have 

 felt the disappointment at the time; but certainly 

 nothing like a murmur would ever have escaped me ; 

 for I do not hesitate to avow, that I should be most 

 thoroughly averse to yield on a professional point 

 for courtesy sake, against my own judgment or 

 opinion. 



The case stands thus : — Many months a2:o 1 

 made a visit to the Veterinary College, when Mr. 

 Coleman happened to be lecturing that morning 

 upon the foot. I was thus induced to stay and hear 

 him — at all times a perfect treat, in this instance 

 more particularly — as the worthy Professor took in 

 his hand one of my side-nail shoes, descanted upon 

 it at considerable length, and in the presence of the 

 most numerous class I ever saw in that theatre, ex- 

 tolled the merits of the system in the warmest terms, 



