MR. H. B. RODWAY IN DEFENCE OF HIS PATENT SHOE. 699 
more or less manageable or more or less acute or intermittent in 
the one or the other formation ? whether the latter formation be 
more liable to such affections than the former, as is my own 
notion of the case. If it be so, an undamaged coit with sucn 
hocks, though technically and legally speaking sound, should be 
avoided where hunting is intended, or other hard work. 
I should mention, that the particular horse alluded to has rather 
prominent splint bones, and was enlarged somewhat at the seat 
of curb in both hocks. I could not trace the lameness to any 
particular exertion, but it seemed to have come on gradually. 
I had recently under rny eye a well-bred filly, with particu- 
larly large and prominent bones in both hocks, and she threw out, 
at grass, about her third year, a curb, which was blistered, and 
disappeared. 
In dissections, attention should be directed to the comparative 
nearness of the bone to the tendon in the two formations. But 
one must not “ teach fishes to swim the veterinarians must 
work out the subject, if there be any thing in it, condescending to 
take a wrinkle from one uninitiated in their science. 
MR. H. B. RODWAY IN DEFENCE OF HIS 
PATENT SHOE. 
General Patent Horseshoe Offices, 56, Edgbaston- street, 
Birmingham, Nov. 14th, 1842. 
To the Editors of“ The Veterinarian” 
Gentlemen, — The article in The Veterinarian of this 
month upon my patent concave horseshoe calls upon me for a 
few observations. 
The subject is touched upon so delicately and indirectly that, 
though much is said, little is there of positive fact or assertion 
to answer ; but that every remark therein can be most satisfac- 
torily answered by me is well known by most in the profession, 
and nothing can give me greater pleasure than on some future 
occasion to do so. Not liking half-measures, therefore, I would 
prefer withholding my privilege of reply till all you may say ad- 
verse to my patent concave shoe be laid before me. 
I have never yet shrunk from inquiry as to the merits or de- 
merits of my patent horseshoe, and the review in The Vete- 
rinarian shews clearly I never shall. Fearlessly have I ex- 
posed it to the manufacture of hundreds to whom it was previ- 
