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forges adopted. This led to the invention of cast-iron horse- 
shoes, which by the process of anhealing were rendered 
malleable, and so, applicable to every purpose of the shoe 
fabricated in the forge. To bring this cast shoe into general 
use, Mr. Goodwin procured a series of beautiful brass models 
of horse-shoes of all sizes, from the pony’s foot to that of the 
cart horse, which constituted the patterns whereby the iron 
shoes were to be cast. Such an opposition, however, on the 
part of farriers and blacksmiths arose the moment these 
ready-made shoes were brought before the public that, what 
with the force of this, and what with a misfortune which 
befel Mr. Goodwin afterwards, in finding himself connected 
with a man of neither worth nor principle, the whole concern 
fell to the ground : the only remains of the cast-iron shoe 
being at this time visible at an obscure farrier’s shop in the 
Knightsbridge Road. 
The present Mr. Goodwin, our President, has been from 
his boyhood fond of horses and everything about them. 
He received a first-rate medical education, having at an early 
age been apprenticed to the late eminent surgeon, Mr. 
Wilson, of the Hunterian School in Windmill Street, where 
he had peculiar advantages from coming in contact with Sir 
Benjamin Brodie, for whom he dressed, dissected, &c. At 
the time of the existence of the Veterinary Medical Society, 
of which he was a member and regular attendant, he brought 
forth an admirable paper ‘On Spavin/ published in vol. Ill 
of e The Veterinarian;’ wherein he showed that it was 
the joint of the hock that was the proper and true seat of 
severe spavin, which at once accounted for the intractability 
and occasional incurability of the disease : the same, in 
fact, as Mr. James Turner had done before, touching 
the navicular disease. Mr. Goodwin has likewise intro- 
duced to our notice, several points of continental prac- 
tice, among which we may, in particular, mention the 
interest he took in practising himself, as well as in teaching 
others, the operation with the clams, d convert and d decouvert , 
for castration, as preferable to cauterization. We hope Mr. 
Goodwin will take it into his serious consideration what we 
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