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the leg—which will live as long as veterinary science is known. 
It may not suit all cases. When the sinew has been abraded by 
the roughened surface of Mr. Turner’s navicular bone, it may 
hasten or produce the rupture of that tendon ; but it is applicable 
to so many cases in which it will ease the sufferings and pro¬ 
long the services of a noble and useful animal, that it will never 
be laid aside, and with it the name of my friend will be ever con¬ 
nected. 
^'Veterinary writers have increased. There is my friend oppo¬ 
site to me (Mr. James Turner): he has published an admirable 
work on the navicular disease in the horse. I will not say that 
the cause of that particular lameness was unknown before the 
appearance of Mr. Turner’s book; but it was very obscurely 
understood by the best practitioners: the majority had no notion 
whatever of it, and the treatment of it was as rude and brutal 
as can be imagined. He who first brings an important subject 
before the public—who first of all clearly elucidates it, and labours 
until he has established it in the opinion of the public, deserves 
all the credit and-praise connected with it. 
‘'There is Mr. Richard Lawrence, a man of good education, 
great talent, and an admirable horse-limner. Very few persons 
are aware how much instruction may be derived from the 
writings of this gentleman. He ought to have filled this chair: 
he was ably conducting the arrangements of the school when I 
first came here. 
“Mr. Bracy Clark is likewise a man of superior education and 
talent. He has written an elaborate work on the foot of the 
horse. We differ about some thing^s connected with that sub- 
ject; we agree as to the general anatomical structure of the 
foot ,* but we differ about the physiology of certain parts of it. 
What harm can come of that ? The public will judge which of us 
is right, and which is wrong. I am told that he complains that 
I have not used him well: I am yet to learn in what particular; 
I am totally unconscious of it. I have recommended that which 
I thought was founded on true physiology in his work, and I 
have given my reasons for not agreeing with other parts. If 
this is injustice, I am yet to learn the meaning of terms. 
