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pears to have received in full measure in the hands of the clergy- 
man and his brother. The “ screw*’ might have been loosened at 
the time the plaintiff and his brother rode the animal on trial, before 
purchase ; or it might have been loosened on his way home, or at 
some subsequent trial of the new horse, between the 31st March 
and “ early in April,” the date of his being pronounced “ lame/ 
Be this how it may, the horse not being detected or proved to have 
been unsound at the time of purchase, the verdict pronounced — 
“ that the horse was unsound at the time ' of sale ’ — was, in our 
judgment, “in error.” The defendant ought in equity to have 
recovered upon this as well as the other count, warranty ; notwith- 
standing it might have been hinted that he “ let his friend in for a 
bargain.” 
[To be continued.] 
Mr. Reeve’s novel and ingenious experiments have furnished 
us with fresh and confirmatory evidence of that cardinal point in 
the economy of the Foot of the Horse, upon which were turned the 
beautiful theories of Lafosse, Coleman, Clark, and others, in expla- 
nation of the functions performed by its several component parts; 
concerning which all authors of systems of plantar physiology and 
shoeing are agreed ; and according to which our practice of shoe- 
ing up to the present day has been regulated ; — we mean, the ex- 
pansive property of the foot. It will be recollected that some 
experiments made by Mr. Gloag, recorded in the Nos. of The 
Veterinarian for May, June, and July last, seemed to induce a 
different conclusion. Against such inferences, however, it will be 
remembered we at the time protested*, still leaning to the old 
doctrine of “ expansion;” and adducing, as our chief reason for doing 
so, an accidental result which fell in our way while engaged, some 
years ago, in making experiments with the horse-sandal. If a 
sandal-shoe, instead of being constructed with a frog-bar, be made 
of the shape of the ordinary shoe, about the substance of a racing 
plate, and be strapped upon the foot in the mode recommended, as 
soon as the horse is put into a brisk or forcible trot, the shoe will 
be cast off the foot, and, if now examined, will be found to have 
undergone sensible dilatation at the heels and quarters ; a circum- 
* See “Leading Article” in The Veterinarian for July 1849, at page 418. 
