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i erinarian” for February 1829, he will find, at page 65 of that 
periodical, that I have before publicly espoused this same me¬ 
thod of shoeing in the most direct terms, by stating that the shoe 
mmt be nailed round the toe, and not only the inside heel avoided 
but the quarter likewise. Now let us see what it will avail Mr. 
Clark as to his published statements of this method of shoeing, 
m havmg referred his readers to the French Journal Pratique 
foi February last, by M. Crepin, one of its editors, when I prove 
that I gave it publicity in the beginning of December of the pre¬ 
vious year. At the top of my navicular paper, to which I have 
just referred, there appears (Read at the Veterinary Medical So¬ 
ciety Dec. 24th, 1828); but besides the reading on the night 
here alluded to, it happened that it was publicly read, although 
out of its turn, some weeks previously, to a very numerous meet¬ 
ing of the same society, in Nassau Street, as can be attested by 
several of the most eminent veterinarians in the kingdom, who 
I am happy to say were present. 
Again, Mr. Clark observes, u Among the testimonies to the 
utility of the expansion shoe, published in 1827, is a letter, 
page 12, from Mr. J. Rrightwen, at Coggeshill, who'States that 
foi several years he has adopted this plan.” On making a call 
on Mr. B. Clark’s own bookseller, I found the work in ques¬ 
tion, with 1828, instead of 1827, printed on the title-page, and 
stitched in the way of an appendix to another of Mr. Clark’s 
works, evidently published in 1827. 
I must intrude a little farther on this already too tedious detail, 
by declaring, that whatever comment Mr. Clark may think proper 
to make on the above reply, I shall not be able to spare any more 
time for controversy on the subject. 
VETERINARY REFORM. 
To the Editors of “ The Vetei inarian .” 
Gentlemen, 
I SHALL offer no apology for addressing you at the present 
crisis, as I am certain the pages of your valuable miscellany will 
be always open for the exposure of public abuse or private wrong. 
It is upon both of these subjects I have taken up my pen, to offer 
a few observations. With the exception of a few interested indi¬ 
viduals, I believe there is but one unanimous opinion of the de¬ 
graded and injured light in which the veterinary profession at 
piesent stands; nor have the late veterinary meetings tended in 
the least to alleviate or redress these wrongs; but rather added a 
