THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XXIII, 
No. 266. 
FEBRUARY 1850. 
Third Series, 
No. 26. 
IMPORTANT EXPERIMENTS ON THE FOOT OF 
THE HORSE. 
(having especial reference to those recently made by 
MR. GLOAG.) 
By W. G. Reeve, M.R.C.V.S., London . 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Sir, — IF I may be permitted to cast a mite into your treasury 
of useful knowledge, and occupy a corner in those pages which 
are, at once, the concentration of practical experience and the 
media of advancing the veterinary profession, I will take the 
liberty of making a few observations upon the subject which has 
so recently been the theme of general discussion, and has occupied 
so prominent a place in The Veterinarian, viz., Mr. Gloag’s 
experiments upon the foot of the horse. 
Were it necessary, I would first allude to the credit due to that 
gentleman for industry and perseverance, in endeavouring to elu- 
cidate a subject which seems to have appeared both difficult and 
novel to the experimentalist ; but where this has been so generally 
accorded by the profession at large, individual panegyric would 
appear superfluous. 
After attentively perusing the pages so ably written by Mr. Gloag, 
we are irresistibly led to the starting-point of the author, and 
plainly perceive that the whole has been begotten by some subject 
of novel interest which had arrested his attention. This (like 
many others from which great events spring, extremely simple 
in itself) was, the indentations found upon the upper surface of 
the heels of old shoes, and which seemed to solicit, from some 
inquiring mind, an explanation. 
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