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pressure, but he is again violent because the inner rim is at a 
distance from the nails and clinches, and the leverage in conse- 
quence becomes so great that the nails break. He does or 
ought to know that the distance of my inner rim and the inner 
rim of the common shoe from the nails and clinches are exactly 
the same. Perhaps he would, however, like, in the use of my 
shoe, by way of improvement, to drive the nails down hill, 
bring the clench to the inner rim, and leave the heads of the 
nails on the top of the hoof — he might get them near enough 
then — any thing for a change : even from such sources we may 
learn something. Will he therefore oblige, by telling me (being 
so clever) how, on two surfaces taking a level bearing, we can 
obtain the leverage he describes? As a proof of the profound 
researches and calculations made in the matter, he complains of 
the expense, while all other persons know that the patent shoe 
can be made at about one-half the cost of the common one. 
Happy, indeed, am I to find so able a practitioner has declined 
so disgraceful an application of that which others are turning so 
much to their own advantage. The violent hands he laid upon 
the poor iron and shoes looks vastly like a man breaking his toe 
in kicking a stone he had the imbecility to fall over. Having 
shewn himself capable of placing his own blunders to the ac- 
count of others, I might have had some reason to believe his 
boasted “ sense of justice/’ if, thinking he had found a defect, 
he had written tome on the subject ; but no — that would not have 
answered his purpose, though I had returned him the penny. 
I shall not now be much surprised to hear from the same quarter 
that all horses becoming blind, broken-winded, or old, being 
troubled with sore-throat, or head-ache in all their limbs, having 
fever in the nose, or pain in the tail, after unsuccessfully bleed- 
ing them in the ear, should be pronounced ruined by the shoe, 
nail, or bellows. 
I remain, Gentlemen, 
Your obedient and humble servant, 
Henry Barron Rodway. 
Mr. Rod way, in another letter addressed to ourselves, who 
had called upon him to favour us with a few of the names of the 
veterinary surgeons who patronize his shoe, affirms, that his two 
hundred testimonials have nearly increased to three hundred. 
“ Herewith,” says he, “ I beg to hand them to you, and per- 
haps, as lovers and seekers after truth, you will have the kind- 
ness to print them.” 
We herewith print the names of the veterinary surgeons, with 
a short comment as regards one of them : — 
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