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MR. BAZ1NG S REPLY TO MR. SPOONER. 
faschia of considerable density and firmness of texture, which 
corresponds to a part in the human subject first described by Sir 
A. Cooper, and by him named the faschia transversalis . It may 
be traced as an entire lining to the muscles of the abdomen; and 
is, from the resistance it opposes (which is by no means in¬ 
considerable), of essential service in sustaining the burden of the 
dependent viscera, in effecting which it reduces the demand for 
muscular action. In it is an opening (removed a short distance, 
inwardly, from the external ring), called the internal abdominal 
ring. 
[To be continued.] 
Communication# an& Ca#c$h 
Ars vetcrinaria post medicinam secunda est.—V egetius. 
A REPLY TO MR. SPOONER ON MESSRS. BRACY 
CLARK AND TURNER’S SYSTEMS OF SHOEING. 
By Mr. Bazing, Beading. 
To the Editors of H The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, 
I am exceedingly averse to any thing like a paper war, par¬ 
ticularly in a journal like yours, which should be entirely devoted 
to the improvement of that science of which it is the avow r ed ad¬ 
vocate. Improvement in every science may be much advanced 
by the correspondence of persons living at a distance; and it is 
upon that ground alone that I trouble you with the following 
observations, to correct some errors into which Mr. Spooner has 
fallen respecting the paper which you did me the honour to insert 
in your publication of last September. 
The observation recommended by Mr. W. Percivall, viz. “ I 
wish every one would only write what he knows, and as much 
as he knows,” is very good; to which I beg to add ;an observa¬ 
tion, viz. I wish every one could understand what he reads , and 
criticise only what he understands. 
Mr. Spooner misunderstands me when he says that I have 
“condemned Mr. Turner’s system in terms which would materi¬ 
ally cripple its rising reputation, if it did not altogether blast it 
in its bud, were his (Mr. Bazing’s) observations founded on 
trial, or were they any thing more than unfounded assertions V 1 
