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VETERINARY OBITUARY. 
and lived in the quiet enjoyment of the means he had acquired 
during an active and arduous professional career. 
It was during his apprenticeship that Mr. Goodwin first imbibed 
his fondness for and knowledge of the horse. His master kept a 
stable of hunters, and he was allowed to keep two for his own 
riding during his pupillage. He was rather renowned for his 
knowing more of horses than his professional brethren, and he 
often related the mistakes and scrapes which he got into from dab- 
bling in diseased horseflesh, and, reasoning from analogy, fancied 
his knowledge of remedies greater than they proved to be. He 
now bought the finest mare in the kingdom, because she had ONLY 
bad eyes ; and, after persecuting the animal for six months with 
powdered glass, salt, and all the remedies he could think of, sold 
her at a fair, in the same state as when he bought her. Shortly 
afterwards he was consulted by a medical friend as to the best 
means of curing bad eyes, when it turned out that his unfortunate 
friend had purchased the said mare, with the same views as in- 
duced him to first try his hand at curing what he conceived to be 
merely opacity of the cornea, but which proved to be of a different 
nature. 
With a taste, then, for the profession, and an acquaintance with 
the Professor, Coleman, together with a disgust for the irksome and 
ill-paid duties of a country medical man in a distant county, Mr. 
Goodwin embraced the veterinary profession, and started from the 
Veterinary College quite an enthusiast in all the theories of his 
friend Coleman ; and, for a time, nothing but a thin-heeled shoe 
and pressure on the frog could benefit the foot, or, exposure of the 
horse to cold air, cure all the diseases of the body. 
He soon found his practice and his theory at variance, and 
changed those opinions he had so earnestly been promulgating. 
Few men in the profession spent so many hours in the forge as 
Mr. Goodwin, and, for years, paid great attention to his favourite 
subject, the foot. This induced him to publish a book on Shoe- 
ing, which, as a practical work, contains much information. 
Although he was never out of the kingdom, he was the first to 
draw attention to the superiority of French nails and nailing over 
that of the method then prevailing in England. When LouisXVllI 
returned to Paris, his Majesty presented two of Bonaparte’s chargers 
to the Prince Regent, and it was their shoes and nails that induced 
him to adopt the French nail and curve at the toe for the horses of 
the royal stables. 
Mr. Goodwin was at great pains and expense to bring to per- 
fection the shoeing of horses with cast-iron shoes, or rather with 
malleable metal; and it was to the circumstance of having connected 
