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I were to look back for them. Pray, Mr. Turner, proceed in 
your “ chace,” and you will be entitled to some handsome 
tribute of gratitude from owners of horses, fox-hunters, and 
racing-men in particular, if you can fairly mark your game. 
It appears your brother was in the field rather before you, but 
only on a cold drag ; or, in language not sporting, somewhat on 
the prophylactic system. After all, although you will not, I fear, 
often find the cause of roaring in the nose, yet, if you throw some 
light on the occasional sources of this nuisance, you will have 
my thanks at least. 
April Number, p. 199. — Neurotomy, by Mr. Charles Morris, 
Bideford. Here are three cases of neurotomy, by a young prac- 
titioner, two of which ended to his satisfaction, although nearly 
defeated in all by the absurd custom of turning out to grass. 
Mr. Sewell wants an act of parliament to prevent firing horses. 
“ Let the act of turning them out to grass, unless under peculiar 
circumstances/’ be included in the prohibition, would be my 
request. Will the homely axiom of “ Let well alone” never find 
its value in the management of this useful animal ? I never had 
a horse “ nerved but I highly approve of the operation, and 
especially for brood mares who suffer pain, as it is nearly cer- 
tain to affect the produce, if not to be the cause of barrenness. 
I have not seen many nerved hunters; but I remember Mr. 
Maxse riding one over Leicestershire two seasons, and he carried 
him very well ; and likewise the case of Mr. Wilding’s hunter, 
in Shropshire, reported to you by Mr. Hickman, of Shrewsbury. 
Although the operation must be a painful one, it is an act of 
mercy towards lame coach horses, who are generally kept in 
work, notwithstanding their lameness. 
The appearance of the hoof of one of the horses operated on 
by Mr. Morris, and the fear expressed by the groom, reminds 
me, that Mr. William Parker, V. S. of Birmingham, told 
a friend of mine, that as a horse which had been nerved was 
galloping in a coach, his hoof (i.e. the box of it) and shoe were 
cast into the air together. Mr. Tilbury rode a nerved horse two 
seasons, but on taking a down-hill fence the fetlock snapped, 
and the horse went a few strides on the stump. 
P. 207. — On the Principles and Practice of Shoeing. My 
limits will not allow me to enter on this subject. On what 
“ principle” horses on the Continent, and especially in this part 
of France, are shod, I am unable to say, although, from the rough- 
ness of the workmanship, it certainly approaches the natural. 
I do not see many horses here lame in the feet ; but, barring the 
estafette mail horses, who ever sees them go more than six miles 
