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of our ci-devant professor’s works on the foot, or is it that he 
has searched those works and found nothing in them, in his 
estimation, worthy of notice ? Or has he taken Girard’s word 
that there was not ? who said, in a preface to a work published 
by him many years ago on the same subject, entitled Traiti du 
Pied des Animaux Domes fiques, that in Coleman’s work there 
was nothing original. Or has he chanced to have seen the 
complimentary advertisement inserted loose into one or other of 
the Parts issued of Bracy Clark’s works, and by it been actuated 
to the undeserved exclusion? — an advertisement which, for fear 
some of our readers may not have met with it, we deem it worth 
while to copy into this place : — 
“In purchasing this volume (of Mr. Bracy Clark’s works) 
with its many discoveries, and numerous and excellent plates, 
even for ten pounds, you gain more insight into all that is ne- 
cessary to be known and is really useful in veterinary prac- 
tice than for the nine-and-thirty pounds you will have to pay 
to that foolish college of Coleman’s, whose plans and patent 
absurdities have been nothing but a delusion ; a system of 
blunders and mistakes from beginning to end, not one of which 
will hold water, yet still impudently foisted upon the unsus- 
pecting part of the public. In obtaining these works, on the 
contrary, many of which are becoming scarce and truly difficult 
to be got, the most certain reliance may be placed upon them, 
as no page of them has ever been refuted ; so also in reselling 
them, if required so to do, they will always fetch a valuable 
consideration on account of their intrinsic merits and sterling 
value; whereas Coleman’s nonsense, or the trumpery flash pub- 
lications got up for sale by the bookselling trade, will sell again 
for just nothing at all.” 
We can hardly imagine any person silly enough to be led 
astray by such egotistical bombast as this. Lest, however, 
M. Bouley, as a foreigner, should fancy it breathes the senti- 
ments of English veterinarians, we tell him, once for all, that 
no name stands higher, even on the present veterinary Parnassus 
of Britain, than that of Coleman ; and that his works, though 
they be here denounced as “a system of blunders and mistakes, 
which will not hold water,” are not merely “ scarce and truly 
difficult to be got,” but are not to be had at any price, “ for love 
or money.” These are two notorious and uncontradictable 
facts, which of themselves, one would think, might have been 
