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earnest friends. From the foregoing* statement, every attentive 
mind must observe what obstacles may be overcome by industry 
and perseverance; and that, in this country, the utility and bene¬ 
volence of an institution need only to be perfectly ascertained, 
to meet with due attention and encouragement. 
The institutors and friends of the Veterinary College presume, 
that, to insure the public patronage, they have only to state the 
nature and tendency of the institution; being fully persuaded, 
that whether it be considered as an object of humanity to animals, 
or of general utility to the nation, it will excite and receive every 
degree of attention and support w hich its intrinsic merit deserves. 
[To be continued.] 
ON CHRONIC FOOT LAMENESS; 
MR. COLEMAN AND MR. BRACY CLARK ON THE FOOT,* AND THE 
ARMY VETERINARY DEPARTMENT. 
The acute and more obvious diseases of horses, and the cures 
of such, are in general more imposing to casual inquirers or lookers- 
on ; nay, not unfrequently to others, from whom a less narrow¬ 
ed scope of observation and reflection might be expected ; but the 
chronic and less obvious, of slower progress and more subtle in 
cause and effect, should, surely, be in no way less interesting. 
And of how frequent occurrence are such in horses ? Requiring 
often nice discrimination, and still oftener much patience in treat¬ 
ment, rather than very active measures or remedies, the cure of 
these should, therefore, be no less gratifying; nor should such be 
trifled with or given up as hopelessly tedious or irreflective, 
mostly, of credit. Usually slow of growth, such diseases are 
equally so of cure. This prelude over, I hasten to the sim¬ 
ple history of the following case; for there is no organ more 
. important, and none, unfortunately, more subject to chronic 
disease, than the foot of the horse; and as I am desirous to usher 
into the pages of The Veterinarian the detail of some cases 
of successfully treated chronic foot-lameness, in w T hich I expe¬ 
rienced the practical application of an often, in schoolhood, 
penned axiom to stand me in good stead,—“ patience and perse¬ 
verance overcome many difficulties,” so I think it may pass as 
not irrelevant. In a subsequent communication I will be less 
general pr diffuse : I must premise further. 
In March 182f), I happened to see a fine-looking slapping 
dark chesnut horse, Sir David , by Stamjord , out of liit-oj - 
Tartan, very lame, both fores. Ilis owner told me he had been 
