252 ON THE EXPANSION OF THE FOOT, &C. 
unacquainted with the principle, and clearly were not consistently 
understood by himself. 
Professor Coleman, whose work was published years after 
Freeman’s, saw nothing about expansion principle in it, and has 
described nothing of the kind; and yet his was long considered 
a good, if not a complete, work ; which it could not have been 
with an omission of such magnitude. 
Mr. F. has long been gathered to his fathers, so that the anti¬ 
pathy which ever appears against a living discoverer could not 
have existed ; and yet no one saw what they now pretend to see. 
But now, after Mr. Bracy Clark, through all manner of report, 
and in the face of the whole profession, has been the open and 
consistent advocate of this principle (at last admitted to be of 
the utmost importance), it is endeavoured to undervalue his la¬ 
bours, although every investigation will discover that his unre¬ 
mitted exertions alone have made the business of the foot and 
shoeing manifest to the world, and forced it, at length, upon the 
consideration of the profession. 
When it is remembered that, not many years ago, Mr. Clark s 
doctrine respecting the expansion of the foot was accounted ab¬ 
surd, and had no supporters, the present discussion must afford 
him most lively satisfaction; and there is no stronger proof in his 
favour, than that others are trying to come in for a share of the 
merit attached to his labours. 
For the future I shall abstain, to the utmost, from commenting 
on any of Mr. Turner’s writings; but I am pleased to observe, 
by his remarks on paring feet, at the end of the paper, that his 
practice is becoming so much in accordance with the recommen¬ 
dations Mr. C. has always laid down relating to these parts. 
As he is decidedly the first college veterinarian who has espoused, 
in spite of his education, the true expansion principle, I am glad 
of such an accession to our cause, and feel every way inclined, 
when truth permits, to agree with him; and, as I said before, 
for the expansion shoe and the side nailing, let experience de¬ 
cide between them, but our principles must triumph. 
Trusting to your editorial candour, and to the pledge which 
you have given to the public, to find a place for these obser¬ 
vations, • I am. Gentlemen, 
Your very, &c. 
Charles Clark. 
Veterinary Infirmary, 
• Stamford Street, April 10. 
