MR. ROD WAY IN DEFENCE OF HIS PATENT SHOE. 197 
leverage in consequence becomes so great that the nails break in 
the manner I have before described. Having thus. Sir, candidly 
and fairly given you my opinion of the shoe, I trust the patentee 
will not accuse me of possessing hostile feelings towards him or 
his patent. I can assure him it is not by such feelings that I 
am actuated in thus publicly giving my opinion. The same im- 
pression, namely the love of candour and justice, that led me to 
takeout the license for the use of the shoes, has since induced me 
to beat up the stock of the patent shoes and patent iron that 1 
had by me, and convert it into the old kind of shoe, attached 
to the foot by the three-quarter mode of nailing. Having thus 
briefly described some of the leading failures attendant on the use 
of the patent shoe, — and expense and a want of durability, by the 
by, are important features not to be lost sight of, — 
I remain, &c. 
MR. RODWAY IN DEFENCE OF HIS PATENT SHOE. 
I beg to tender you my thanks for the insertion of a letter in 
your Number of December last, in part replying to one which 
appeared to criticise my patent horseshoe (or rather my prospec- 
tus) in the preceding Number. Though the remarks have ap- 
peared as editorial, I cannot for a moment admit them to be so 
without doing gross injustice to each of you # ; feeling assured, 
from the unprofessional, contradictious, undecided, and unmanly 
character of the article in November, and also the present month, 
they could not have emanated from a veterinarian : and I flatter 
myself the perusal of my remarks upon them will prove to each 
of your readers the necessity that a man pretending to so much 
and knowing so little on a subject so important should sail no 
longer under false colours, to lower the profession in public esti- 
mation. But I begin strongly to feel that the desire to tell strange 
tales and convey strange impressions to my injury comes from 
a more ignoble failing than ignorance. I might be called upon 
to speak warmly upon the subject but for the many important 
truths he is compelled to tell in my favour. Professor Coleman 
did much for the veterinary art, studied hard to do much more, 
and was deservedly respected ; need I, then, be surprised at being 
attacked by misrepresentations, misquotations, and unfairness, 
while such a man’s ashes are dragged from his tomb, and his 
very good intentions held up in paltry borrowed satire, as in No- 
* Mr. Rodway was told by Mr. Youatt, at the latter’s house — and he can- 
not deny it — that the “ review” of his shoe was to be editorial. 
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