A treatise on the horse : its diseases, lameness, and improvement : in which is laid down the proper method of shoeing the different kinds of feet ... / by William Osmer.

Date:
1830
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    bis terms, copying1 even bis phraseology in many instances—but nearly all without due acknowledge- ment. Of about a dozen of these College-bred authors which have come under my notice, with some who were otherwise educated, scarcely two have escaped detection. From this censure, I see no reason for excluding the names of White, Coleman, Lawrence, Goodwin, Blaine,* to say nothing of the minors. One alone, and he anony- mously, recently paid the just tribute of respect to our author, by reprinting a portion of the third edition, in successive numbers of his useful periodi- cal publication (the Farrier and Naturalist) and thus brought Osmer’s work under notice, in a manner that deserves our thanks. Another perio- dical writer, of some power and much intelligence, though no farrier, ofteu pays homage to the talents of Osmer in his communications to the Sporting Magazines. The first mentioned gave the author s words throughout; the latter adopts his ideas, his opinions, and generalities; nor * This gentleman’s very able work I have glanced at but ca- sually ; not because the author was without a College certi- ficate [diploma !] but perhaps its great bulk. He is accused by John Lawrence of having copied from Osmer’s Treatise, what he afterwards gave the world as “ a discovery of his own.” So stated in White’s Compendium, page 346, edit. 10th. Mr. Blaine is not alone: his poor accuser is wofully in the same predicament; and the Professor at Pancras eminently so.