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OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRACTICABILITY 
duty to communicate all the knowledge I possess to the students 
who have placed themselves under my tuition. I have for some 
years| tau ght them both the principles and practice by which 
they might cure that disease, and I have the satisfaction of knowing 
that some of them have been as successful in curing it as I have 
been; but my knowledge being, as I conceive, in some measure 
the property of my pupils, I feel that I am compelled, even at the 
risk (which I believe is a small one) of being charged with quackery, 
to refuse so reasonable a request as that of Mr. Fisher’s. 
Your’s truly, 
William Dick. 
OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRACTICABILITY OF 
USING HORSES WITHOUT SHOES, 
AND ON THE GOOD EFFECTS LIKELY TO ACCRUE THEREFROM TO 
THE FEET, BE THEY IN A SOUND OR AN UNSOUND CONDITION. 
By William Mogford, V.S., Guernsey. 
“ There is no new thing under the Sun 
I DO not mean to demur. It cannot, however, be questioned 
that the circle, within which the truth of the saying is to be de- 
monstrated, is of a somewhat wider range than the sphere of even 
the most distinguished of our profession. No injustice will be 
done to any if I more than insinuate that facts and opinions bearing 
the wrinkles of venerable age, would, in their transition to the 
scanty laboratory of many a young aspirant, find their youth 
renovated. I confess my belief that more than half of the pro- 
positions laid down in our day as the discoveries of an inventive 
genius, would, on due investigation, be found to bear the marks 
of a resurrection. Let, then, Solomon have his due. Continue, 
Messrs. Editors, to contribute your quota, and, judging from the 
golden opinions you have already won, I doubt not the free dis- 
cussion your admirable Journal fosters will more and more justify 
the wise' man’s proverb. To the unaccustomed eye, difficulties 
will appear insurmountable which have been dissipated by expe- 
riments so simple as assuredly not to have escaped the observa- 
tion of some now among the dead. No less true is it that a 
succession of facts, apparently contradictory, will have induced, in 
the mind of the same practitioner, a passing confidence in con- 
flicting theories, till he have bid adieu to the rivals, and adopted 
