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EXPANSION OF THE FOOT. 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons have a special meeting for 
the cQnsideration of this subject; and that preliminary arrange- 
ments be made for bringing the matter before the body of the 
profession at the yearly General Meeting, in May next. Let 
honour be given to whom honour is due. As Mr. Morton is one 
of the Professors, of course, he would be consulted. But, if I 
mistake not, Mr. Baker is not a member of the Council now, 
therefore he might be specially invited to attend. Hoping you 
will likewise use the influence of your powerful pen and interest, 
as a member of the Council, to bring about this desirable object, 
I remain, your’s, &c. 
W. Cox, M.R.C. V.S. 
EXPANSION OF THE FOOT. 
By Arthur Cherry, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian” 
“ Of all the passions that possess mankind, 
The love of novelty rules most the mind : 
In search of this from realm to realm we roam, 
Our fleets come fraught with every folly home ; 
Striking our British breasts with awe and fear, 
As once the Lilliputians .” Gulliver. 
u They demanded (of Mahomet), however, more palpable evidence ad- 
dressed to the senses ; that he should cause the dumb to speak, the deaf to 
hear, the blind to see, the dead to rise ; or that he should work changes in 
the face of nature .” — Life of Mahomet. 
Sir, — I HAD hoped that the controversy which had been at- 
tempted to be raised upon the /mrc-expansion of the horse’s foot 
would be allowed to sink into the oblivion from which it ought 
never to have been dragged forth ; nor should I now make any 
comment on the subject, after what I have before written, were it 
not for what has appeared in the last Number of your Journal. 
In an Editorial article it is reiterated, “ that a wonderful apathy 
has been manifested on a subject which one would naturally con- 
sider to be of great importance.” This is, doubtless, only intended 
by the Editor to draw on a controversy, and thereby do somewhat 
towards a settlement of a question which some one or two have 
thought proper to raise. 
A few words on the origin of this would-be-discovery of a fact! 
— God save the mark — and upon which we, the body at large, are 
to be told that we have lived all the days of our life ; and, further, 
