ON THE ONE-SIDENAILING. 
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method, we may, perhaps, be entitled to join in the triumph of 
our fellow-labourers in the cause with such names as Messrs. 
Spooner, of Southampton, — Carlisle, of Wigton, — Youatt, 
Percivall, Hallen, May, Thomas Turner, and many other veteri- 
narians who, by their writings and by their practice, have most 
industriously, patiently, and liberally tested the new method of 
side-nailing upon every description of working horse ; viz. road- 
sters, hunters, posters, mail horses, and the cavalry. 
With reference to Mr. Carlisle’s letter upon this subject, in 
the August number of The Veterinarian, I shall not affect 
to conceal the gratification which the perusal of it afforded me. 
That gentleman is certainly a most strenuous advocate. The 
scientific and decisive manner in which he expresses the result 
of his experience must convert to the new system every waverer, 
if such there be, among your numerous readers. 
Now, gentlemen, touching a letter which appeared in the last 
number of The Veterinarian, from Mr. Charles Clark, I 
must appeal to you, and the body of the veterinary profession, 
for justice. 
1 presume to take it for granted, that a man must have said or 
done some good thing in his profession or calling when a family 
compact of high standing in that profession shall finesse, strain, 
and grasp at that same good thing, by way of sharing it among 
their brotherhood, although, in good truth, the fraternity have 
no pretensions to it whatever. 
The said Mr. Charles Clark, after affecting to honour me with 
the shadow , modestly appropriates the substance to his uncle — 
that gigantic monopolist of veterinary discoveries : but alas ! 
the present stupid race of men are stone blind to these discoveries, 
or, would they not have flourished in practice ere now ? I 
mean the discoveries, — and amongst them, especially, the tablet 
expansion jointed shoe . Notwithstanding this gentleman’s dis- 
appointment, there is no writer or practitioner living with whose 
opinions on the anatomy and physiology of the foot of the horse 
J more heartily concur, some few points excepted. His labours 
through a long life have been incessant ; and I, for one, set a 
high value upon them. One or two leading principles concern- 
ing the foot of the horse Mr. Bracy Clark has lived to see tri- 
umphant to his heart’s content. 
Now, gentlemen, I must repeat my congratulations to you, as 
having identified yourselves with the new art of shoeing horses 
by one-side nailing. From the commendable spirit in which you 
nursed the bantling on its presentation to you, nearly eight years 
ago — your promptness in immediately promulgating it through- 
out all the provincial towns in the united kingdom, by devoting 
