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upon ; to provide itself with a cover ; and to renew this covering 
as oft as it wears away by use. And withal, the foot is small 
and compact, and single to view; while the horny case of it is 
susceptible of a polish hardly inferior to that of the finest Spanish 
mahogany. 
Considering that the subject of the foot has employed the pens 
of the most distinguished veterinarians, both of this country and 
abroad, and that, of some, we could name, it seems to have been 
the study almost of their professional lifetime, we can scarcely 
regard the appearance of such a work as the one before us as 
any thing short of an epoch in our professional history. In our 
own country, reckoning the number of years since Coleman’s 
work made its debut, and the number of years Bracy Clark’s 
work has been, part by part, coming to a conclusion, and that no 
work of any magnitude on the subject has during this period 
come into existence besides — we repeat, looking at these facts, 
it may strike some of our good readers that it is no easy or 
trifling matter to produce a comprehensive work of science on 
the foot. M. Bouley, however, has brought — or rather is bring- 
ing — one out, and bringing out such a work as, in one respect at 
least, has not had its parallel before, inasmuch as it not only sur- 
passes its predecessors in comprehension and detail, but places in 
felicitous apposition, side by side, the doctrines and opinions 
both of French and English veterinarians. How far the two 
sets of national theories and practices will go hand in hand 
together remains to be seen. The “ Preface” thus commences — 
“ The book which I (M. Bouley) this day venture to submit 
to the judgment of the public constitutes the First Part of a 
work intended to embrace, as a whole, the complete study of 
the Organization of the Foot of the Horse, considered under the 
three-fold relation of anatomy , physiology, and pathology. In 
selecting, in my turn, as the theme of my studies, a subject 
already treated in so superior a style by the pens of Bourgelat, 
Girard, Bracy Clark, and Perier, it has been less my design to 
compose a work professedly original than to present, in a novel 
form, one more ample and extended, embracing the accumulated 
knowledge our science at the present day boasts of in this im- 
portant department.” 
Why, we ask, was the name of COLEMAN omitted in this 
chosen list 7 Was it that M. Bouley was not in the possession 
