VETERINARY OBITUARY. 
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himself with an unworthy partner that all his efforts were rendered 
unavailing, and not to the failure of the invention, which yet may, 
some day, be brought into operation, although the patent right has 
expired some time. 
The Society of Arts rewarded Mr. Goodwin with its medals for 
several of his inventions. The first was a clever model for an ope- 
rating table for the veterinarian, but which has been too expensive, 
probably, to admit of any individual having one constructed; other- 
wise it must be a desideratum to have the horse well secured on a 
table without the risk of throwing him down, and convenient to the 
height of the hand of the operator. 
The spring cross, for making horses’ mouths, and now in frequent 
use, was also his invention ; and what Mr. Goodwin inappropriately 
called a “ ball probang” — (the French term it a “ pilulifere”), or a 
ball bearer ; and in studs where the mouths of foals and yearlings 
will scarcely admit the hand, it is in use, and far safer than the 
thrusting a ball on a stick into the throat, and which has been the 
cause of many a valuable young animal’s death. 
His hobbles are also ingenious, and far superior to the common 
methods of securing our patients. 
It is now nearly a quarter of a century since Mr. Goodwin ear- 
nestly set himself to work to remove what he conceived the griev- 
ances of the profession ; and he addressed the governors of the 
Veterinary College upon the subject of the profession being entirely 
excluded from the slightest voice in the government of its own in- 
terests. He expressed his opinion that it was now full time for 
some of the members to be chosen to sit at the examining 
board. To bring the force of his argument more under the notice of 
the governors of the College, he made himself a subscriber to the 
institution ; and for this they made a bye-law that no veterinary 
surgeon should in future be allowed to be a subscriber to the insti- 
tution, and he was in consequence prohibited from attending any 
general meeting. This will ever be recorded as shameful an act 
of the authorities of the Veterinary College as it was a worthy one 
on the part of Mr. Goodwin. 
In his latest moments he gloried in the feeling that the profession 
had now shaken off a thraldom which it had tamely borne so long to 
its detriment. He was the oldest reformer, and was a sincere well- 
wisher to his profession. He was often heard to lament the causes 
that had so degraded what might have been a far more respected 
name than it now is ; and to regain which, in the estimation that 
the title of veterinary surgeon ought to have been considered, will 
take longer, and cost more than the unworthy conduct of those who 
sold it for their own gain can repair in the same time. 
