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tention — the foot and the eye. The latter of these, indeed, had 
always been such a favourite with him, that, had he remained 
a surgeon, it is more than probable he would have practised as 
an oculist. Neither field of inquiry, however, turned out of 
much profit. None of the horseshoes he invented proved of any 
service. Shoeing, in spite of the alterations he attempted, reverted 
back to what it was before ; and as for the eye, cataract proved 
unrelievable by operation, and periodic ophthalmia resisted every 
medicine, external and internal, and every operation, he could 
brine: to bear against it. 
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One of the Professor’s projects, however, was crowned with 
signal success ; and for this his name must be handed down to 
posterity with no ordinary eclat — I mean his introduction of ven- 
tilation into stables and other places used as the habitations of 
horses and cattle. Before his time it was the practice of grooms — 
stud-grooms and trainers, et hoc omne genus — with a view of 
keeping their horses as warm as possible by the exclusion of air, 
to close up every chink and cranny through the wall or boarding 
of the stable, not omitting even the key-hole. Newmarket was 
renowned for this close-stopping ; and Newmarket proved the last 
to admit that the respiration of pure air had any thing to do with 
the health of race-horses. The first to assent to the Professor’s 
new doctrine were the cavalry — Mr. Coleman being at that time 
the principal army veterinary surgeon, any recommendation of the 
kind from him became tantamount to an order. Accordingly, 
ventilation was adopted by way of experiment ; and such were 
the favourable reports made concerning it, that it was not long 
before the whole of the cavalry stables in Great Britain were 
ordered to undergo the necessary alterations ; and this order Mr. 
Coleman himself was directed by the commander-in-chief to see 
carried into proper execution. From the army, ventilation spread 
to the stables of gentlemen keeping their hunters or pleasure 
horses ; and, afterwards, it found its way into the stables of coach 
and post and job masters, who all discovered it to their interest to 
adopt the Colemanian air-holes. Last of all, as was said before, it 
having, in the mean time, obtained a strong current, ventilation 
blew the stoppings out of the chinks and cracks and key-holes of 
racing stables. For a long while its inveterate enemies, the 
