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ing of the same dimensions as the shoe, it will have become a 
size larger, and the part of shoe which was (when put on) oppo- 
site to its (the crust’s) outer edge, will be opposed to the sole. 
What, then, becomes of the principle ? Why, it becomes alto- 
gether subverted. Corns will be produced. And this will not 
only happen now and then, but must continually take place. The 
(seated) shoe will not even answer for a dead hoof. The (seated) 
shoe once fitted this hoof (I hold in my hand); but, since contrac- 
tion of the hoof has taken place (from drought) it no longer does so. 
But, independently of all this, the practice (of such shoeing) is 
erroneous; any man of common sense would say, when he found you 
were making that flat which Nature had formed concave, essay- 
ing most absurdly to improve upon natural formation, “ seeing 
that Nature has thus constructed the hoof, we have nothing more 
to do than to prepare it in the same manner.” All the labour (of 
manufacture), therefore, bestowed upon this shoe is lost. It is 
true, that if the foot be properly pared out, such a shoe will do no 
harm ; neither will it do any good, be it placed the wrong or the 
right side upwards. For, in this case, when the hoof comes to 
expand, the sole being concave and the crust projecting, the shoe 
can never touch the former; but the instant you reduce these parts 
to a flat surface, I defy the art of man to make a shoe that will 
not in time press upon the sole*.” 
At a very late period we arrest our publication to announce to 
the profession that faction is again rife — that now a change of 
Ministry has thrown other influence into power, another attempt 
is being made to overturn, destroy, or alter that which the majority 
have adopted, and are satisfied with — the present Charter. 
Space will not permit us to enter into any comments upon this 
important subject; but at the same time we most confidently predict 
that, let the factious, the self-interested, or the dissatisfied do their 
utmost, provided we are united, true to ourselves, and at the 
same time firmly courteous, all their efforts will prove futile, 
and ultimately end in disgraceful defeat ; disgraceful, because 
undertaken without justice, based on self-interested or erroneous 
views, and carried on without good faith. 
Coleman’s Lectures on the Veterinary Art. 
