THE VETERINARIAN, APRIL 1, 1843. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
Mr. Rod way’s angry communication, dealing, as it does, in 
abuse and insinuation in place of argument, would not have found 
admission into our Journal, had we not, from a sense of justice — 
a false one, perhaps, on the present occasion — suffered our 
prescribed laws to be set aside ; and this we have been induced 
to do in consequence of the said communication professing to be 
a reply to two articles of our own : one in our number for last 
November, reviewing his prospectus ; the other, reporting on his 
shoe, in our number of last month. 
That Mr. Rodway, as a patentee, should feel disappointed and 
vexed at the failure of his project, is natural enough; but in 
giving vent to those feelings in language and expression such as 
he has used against us, he not only has injured his cause, but 
likewise his reputation. 
He denounces our reviews of his prospectus and shoe as 
“ unprofessional, contradictious, undecided, and unmanly;” and 
he accuses us of professional “ ignorance.” 
An attentive and unbiassed perusal of what we have written 
must be our answer to the first of these onerous charges ; and as 
for the second, that of “ ignorance,” it must be allowed, on all 
hands, that our knowledge of horseshoes and horseshoeing is 
light indeed when poised in the balance with the profound science 
displayed in those arts by Mr. Rodway : indeed, when it is con- 
sidered how little time and attention we have bestowed upon the 
subjects compared with what Mr. Rodway can boast of, it is 
only to be wondered at that our “ ignorance” is not greater than 
he has so charitably represented it. But, when Mr. Rodway 
throws out the base insinuation of “ a more ignoble failing than 
ignorance,” — if he means that for us — we tell him to his teeth, 
that we fling it back upon him with indignation and disgust. 
But why should we feel angry ? why, as Tillotson, in a truly wise 
