532 mh. b. clark’* hippodonomia. 
to bear on his profession, and have shed lustre upon it; and we 
have been accustomed to regard him as one of the redeeming 
characters in our forlorn and degraded caste. His attention has 
been principally directed to the foot of the horse, the structure of 
its various parts, the principle on which all its functions are 
founded, and by which they are governed, and coalesced in one 
harmonious whole. Them is no one who will deny, that he has 
opened new views and shed new light on many branches of this 
important and intricate subject; and we think we shall be enabled 
to prove that, notwithstanding some false conclusions, and they the 
result of ardent zeal in the cause of veterinary science, and an anxious 
desire to alleviate the sufferings of our noble patient a little too much 
outstripping the slow and cautious decisions of the judgment, (and 
we do not like our author the worse for this, although the display 
of a spirit of dogmatism and professional jealousy, and an attempt 
at professional despotism, has occasionally displeased us) there is no 
work on the foot of the horse that contains so much real informa¬ 
tion as this production of Mr. Bracy Clark. We are also free to 
confess that we do not think it has received from the veterinary 
public that regard to which it is entitled. The causes of this we 
are sorry that we shall have partially to unfold ; but we have a 
duty to discharge, and we shall discharge it with perfect good 
feeling towards Mr. Bracy Clark, with a full conviction of the 
value of his work, with sincere pleasure that we can recommend 
it not merely to the perusal but to the diligent study of our readers, 
and with a sense of what we owe to our profession and to truth. 
We will get rid of the unpleasant part of our business first. 
We have two or three matters to settle with our author. In 
the first place, we object to the peremptory manner in which Mr. 
Bracy Clark’s “ discoveries” are again and again forced upon us. 
In page v of his preface he says, “if what is here advanced be 
true, it will be found to subvert nearly all that has been done upon 
the subject, and to open an almost entirely new prospect on these 
things.” In page vi he writes, “ It is with pain, however, I have 
to record, that now the mystery has been unfolded, and the diffi¬ 
culty exposed nearly 20 years, it has not been generally received 
and appreciated.” In page vii he speaks of “ the professors of the 
various veterinary colleges”—“ by nearly of all whom he has been 
basely treated”—“ concealing his i discoveries’ from their pupils,” 
Sec. In page 19 he boasts of seeing, “ probably for the first time, 
what had never been seen before in the same sense of view at 
least;” and to pass over many other passages, he thus writes: 
“ I confess I feel it a little hard, after making so many un¬ 
questionable discoveries, that no proposition for a reward, no ex¬ 
pression of favour, ever reached me from the College.” 
All this is in very bad taste. It was not thus that the fathers 
