CONCLUDING OBSEllVATIONS. 1)1 



I believe, for the most part correct. The lustre 

 which the talents, ingenuity, and zeal of this indi- 

 vidual have spread over our infant science, by the 

 dissemination of sound principles of the veterinary 

 art throughout these kingdoms, far exceeds the 

 power of my feeble pen to describe. 



It is well known that Mr. Coleman has made 

 the foot of the horse his particular study for a 

 period of nearly forty years ; and it is highly gra- 

 tifying to me, as his pupil, that what I am about to 

 advance (supposing my position a sound one) has 

 no tendency to weaken any thing which he has 

 established ; but I hope to contribute in some de- 

 gree to the superstructure, although this gentleman 

 is deservedly eminent for his broad and comprehen- 

 sive views in physiological investigation, and for 

 having unfolded the various springs which comprise 

 the elastic apparatus of the foot, together with their 

 functions, which constitute the elasticity or expan- 

 sibility of the organ ; and although he ingeniously 

 shews, or appears to shew, great provisions made by 

 Nature both at the top as well as the base of the 

 hoof to obviate concussion and contraction, he has, 

 in my humble opinion, conceived only a limited and 

 inadequate notion of the expansive power which a 

 sound and fully developed foot really possesses, th^toe o7fiom 

 Mr. Coleman in his Treatise on the Foot, Vol. ii, bonp'deni'cdVv 

 page 89, observes, that " the heels of the coffin comniensuiate 



, , '111 ^^'''' ''** heels. 



bone have a more extensive descent than the ante- 



