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EDITORIAL REMARKS. 
most assuredly, has acted in a very different manner towards us; 
and yet, in giving a place to it, as we have deemed it our duty 
to do, we have run the risk of bringing our subscribers upon our 
back, charging us with vanity, and all sorts of unpleasant things 
besides. One thing we can safely vouch for, and that is, so far 
from having, either directly or indirectly, had any hand in con¬ 
cocting the said review, we knew nothing even of its existence 
until the very minute it came per printers’ emissary into our hands. 
To say we are unconscious of having seen the hand-writing before, 
would be to tell an untruth : indeed, it is the very surmise of who 
the writer is that induces us to apprehend he has been 
To our faults a little blind, 
To our virtues much too kind. 
Verily, it requires more fortitude to withstand the gilded apples 
of praise than to face the shafts of envy. 
Mr. Read’s “ Essay” claims the attention of our agricultural 
friends. There are not few veterinary surgeons who, nowadays, 
combine agriculture with their professional pursuits. This is no 
more than the offspring looking back upon its parent. Veterinary 
science, we know, sprang from an agricultural society, and the off¬ 
set soon became strong enough to support itself. Of late years, 
however, there has been a sort of reversion of our profession back 
again upon the agricultural world; and this at the present day is 
evidently on the increase. There is nothing like the close relation¬ 
ship in science between agriculture and the veterinary art which 
there is between the latter and the science of medicine ; and yet 
the connexion, the feeling , is manifestly the other way. 
Mr. Gloag’s “ Experiments,” testing the expansive capabilities, 
as well as actual expansion under weight or action or both, of the 
horse’s foot will be read with doubts and apprehensions. For our 
own part, until we learn the results of the concluding experiments 
—which we shall next month—we refrain from offering any re¬ 
marks on them; though, in respect to the general physiology of 
the foot, as accepted at the present day,'we must be allowed to 
observe, we have in our own mind long suspected there is “ some¬ 
thing rotten in the state of Denmark.” 
