ON THE EXPANSION OF/HOUSES’ FEET. 
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liar theories which he enforces with most weight and vehemence, 
and which may be found floating in the brain and hanging on 
the tongue of every full-fledged pupil, are almost uniformly true 
when exactly reversed’^; these things have at length produced 
their natural effects on the public mind. Let me not, by any 
means, offend the respected and established practitioner, to whom 
I appeal for the truth of these statements, and who knows that 
he cannot, and never has been able to, practise the major part of 
Mr. Coleman’s doctrines. Such as it is now, a diploma is not 
merely a negative good, but a positive injury to a young practi¬ 
tioner. 1, for one, will not be supposed to derive my qualifica¬ 
tions from such a source as St. Pancras School. 
Lancet. 
It certainly was not our intention to have inserted this letter. 
Mr. Morgan was the person attacked—he had retired from the 
field, and it was not usual, after that, to permit the challenger to 
prance it over the lists in vain and unmeaning defiance. Besides, 
we thought that Mr. Clark had, in this letter, plainly asserted 
some things, and insinuated others w'hich, on reflection, he would 
rather wish to have withdrawn from the public eye. There is no 
accounting for tastes. His demand is complied with. 
As to his private letter to ourselves, in which he says, As the 
case stands at present in your pages, Mr. Morgan is left with the 
last word of the argument, which I will never allow to any one 
who denies the principle of expansion to the foot of the horse— 
therefore I claim from you, as a truth-seekii^g journalist, that the 
whole may appear without any garbling or concealment—if 
otherwise, I shall understand your motives, and proceed accord¬ 
ingly”—we regard this with the contempt that it deserves. 
As to “ the expansion of horses’feet,” in which we believe 
as firmly as he does, and as to the progress of veterinary science, 
which we have quite as much at heart as himself, we must beg to 
tell him, and all these outrageously violent spirits, that 
Non tali aiixilio, nec defensoribus istis, teinpus eget. Y. 
• If this singular assertion is doubted, I am ready to undertake the proof 
of it in a concise, straightforward manner.—C. C. 
