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knowing exactly what to substitute, I at first took a poetical freedom with the name of my old favourite BEN JoNSON. Any other dissyllable, however, will do as well as JoN-

of your readers may sugto be filled up by the imagination, or by the memory. As for the monosyllable in the last line, it is essential to the pith of the epitaph. I won’t part with BEN, Mr. Editor,-I can’t spare BEN ; for, in the first place, the verse is made, which is a better reason than the celebrated one of the Abbé VERTOT ; and for a raison de plits, I should have no difficulty in showing, that BEN is far more neat and, appropriate than JoE, Tom, DrcK, or any other monosyllable that could be substisow ; and as

gest

a

some

better, I have left a space

nal were, no doubt, open to Mr. Goodger, for the correction of any misrepresentation, it is a little Singular, and somewhat unfor-

gentleman’s reputation, that he should not have disavowed the testimony ascribed to him, until we felt it our duty,

tunate for this

Medical Journalists, to comment upon the ignorance which that testimony would have established. as

UTILITY OF MR. BRACY

tuted for it.

I remain, Sir, Your obedient servant, THOMAS HILL.

CLARK’S

EXPAN-

SION SHOE.

To the Editor

of THE LANCET.

.

SiR,-The interest which you have taten in the me

EPITAPH.

to

subject of expansion shoeing, induces

request the insertion of the inclosed

With many thanks for the assist. you have afforded in so many instances to the neglected art which I profess, I beg here, Since cut him for the stone, is to subscribe myself Your constant reader, clear. CHARLES CLARK. Uncut, the youth from all disease. was free The stone BEN cut for, is the stone you see. Sidmouth Mews, Gray’s Inn Lane. Here lies

a

youth ;

and

why

the

youth lies

letter. ance

’

36, Stamford St. Blackfriars, Dec. 31, 1827. DEAR SiR,-I feel happy in bearing testimony to the very great advantage of your Expansion Shoe, over that of the com"

CORONER’S

INQUEST ON JAMES SMITH.

To the Editor of THE LANCET. St. Mary-le-bone Infirmary,

mon

one, which has been

proved

in the

following instance. My thorough-bred horse, Napoleon, became very much conJan.22, 1828. tracted in the feet, in consequence of havSiR,-The statement of a part of my evi- ingbeen kept shod for two years and a half, dence before the Coroner, as published by (mostly in the stable,) without beingused, you, in your Journal of last week, and which during the time I was confined in Ilchester was copied from the Times of January 12, is gaol; at this time he was rising six years incorrect ; and consequently, your observa- old, and having’ done but very little work, tion in all other respects he was quite in his ignorantly answered," is false. No such question as the following was prime. Finding that from the numbness to me :’

put

of his feet he became unsafe to ride, and Coroner-" If any narcotic poison had enunpleasant to drive, in consequence of very tered the stomach, would it not have caused severe cutting, I was induced to send him the deceased to vomit :" to the Veterinary College to have always Witness-" Certainly it would." him shod’; still he got worse and worse, his I am, Sir, fetlock joints became much enlarged and Your humble Servant, callous, from the constant battering of his WM. F. GOODGER. feet against his legs, and in spite of the wadded boots which he constantly wore, The discreet and gentlemanlike tone of he seldom returned from his work without his legs being in a gore of blood, and at the above communication cannot fail to length, by the speedy cut, he became so lame strike our readers. Our opinion of Mr. as to be totally unfit for use; being a farepeatedly to the Ve. Goodger’s ignorance was, of course, contin- vourite, I sent him where he remained fora terinary College, the in of the gent upon report accuracy month or six weeks at a time, without obThe Times ;but, as the columns of that taining the desired relief, and Mr. SeweU

Jour-