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the circumstance would soon have been bruited abroad, and we 
should have been exposed to so many vexatious and unjust charges 
that prudence and peace of mind would have counselled us to 
shut up our forges altogether. 
We are not sorry, however, that the case has occurred ; for it may 
possibly rouse the professors of the Veterinary College to a sadly 
neglected part of their duty. Had either of them been in the 
habit of superintending the forge ; had the practical management 
of it been regularly taught to the pupils, shoes of such rude 
workmanship and strange construction could never have been 
used. In other veterinary schools the students are, at certain 
times, taken into the forge, and made to go through the different 
processes. They are taught, at least, to take off and to put on 
the shoe, and to pare out the foot, and to obtain the perfect use 
of the drawing knife, and adroitly to perform many operations on 
the foot,—acquirements advantageous to the town-practitioner, 
and indispensable with him who practises in the country. It is a 
portion of horse-surgery, ignorance of which will occasionally 
expose to inconvenience and disrepute. Is it taught at the 
college ? Is it, in the slighest degree? Have either of the pro¬ 
fessors anything to do with the forge ? 
We conclude, then, with thanking Mr. Coleman for having 
refused to compromise this action, and by wishing that the annoy¬ 
ance to which he has been exposed, may rouse him to the dis¬ 
charge of a too-long-neglected portion of his duty. 
We were somewhat puzzled a little while ago by a paragraph 
in “ The Lancet.’’ The reporter is describing what took place 
at a meeting of the College of Physicians. Two letters had been 
read. “ The third was from a member of the Veterinary College, 
descriptive of some coloured drawings of certain morbid ap¬ 
pearances in glanders in the horse, the ass, &c.” 
“ A member of the Veterinary College !” “ Who can this be?” 
thought we : “ our old friend, Vines ? He has announced a work 
on glanders, with coloured engravings, and w r e have for some 
time been anxiously expecting its publication. No ! no ! it cannot 
be him. We know him too well. He, we are convinced, would 
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