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Bracy Clark (1771 – 16 December 1860) was an English veterinary surgeon specialising in the horse. ==Biography== He was the youngest son of John and Hannah Clark of Chipping Norton,〔James Hurnard, ''James Hurnard a memoir, chiefly autobiographical, with selections from his poems'' (1883), p. 9; (archive.org ).〕 and was educated at the Quaker school of Thomas Huntley at Burford in Oxfordshire.〔Thomas Hodgkin, Obituary of Dr. Prichard, Journal of the Ethnological Society of London (1848-1856), Vol. 2, (1850), pp. 182-207. Published by: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3014122〕 He was one of the first students enrolled at the newly established Veterinary College of London, and studied under Charles Benoît Vial de Sainbel. Sainbel died of unidentified fever in 1793 (later thought to be glanders); Clark disregarded the instructions to stay clear of the body, to produce a death mask. Clark made a continental tour around 1797, but wartime conditions meant he wasn't able to visit France. He was then in a London veterinary practice with William Moorcroft and Edmund Bond.〔Theodore Andrea Cook, ''Eclipse & O'Kelly: being a complete history so far as is known of that celebrated English thoroughbred Eclipse (1764-1789), of his breeder the Duke of Cumberland & of his subsequent owners William Wildman, Dennis O'Kelly & Andrew O'Kelly now for the first time set forth from the original authorities & family memoranda'' (1907), p. 139; (archive.org ).〕 Clark specialised in conditions of horses' hooves, and in 1806 patented a new pattern horse shoe;〔No 2913 of 26 March 1806〕 he was then in practice at Giltspur Street, London. He wrote extensively about the hoof in a series of pamphlets and books. In his work on the hoof Clark concluded that great damage was done by the shoeing practices of the time, but his views were ridiculed by his contemporaries.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.naturalhorsetrim.com/nomination.htm )〕 In those opinions he was following, however, the teaching of Edward Coleman, Sainbel's successor.〔s:Horse shoes and horse shoeing: their origin, history, uses, and abuses/Chapter XII〕 His writings on laminitis and bridles have been noted by modern writers on barefoot horses〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://hoofcare.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/tribute-to-bracy-clark-its-200th.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://academialiberti.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/hoof-trimming-in-horses.html )〕 and the bitless bridle.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.aebm.org.au/documents/metal_free_horse.pdf )〕 An advertisement for his books,〔Multiple copies of the leaflet are held at the Sterling Library, Yale University. See WorldCat for details〕 published in 1835, records that he was a Fellow of the Linnean Society, Member of the Institut de France and Ecole de Médicine, and of the Royal Societies of Berlin, Frankfort, Copenhagen, and Stuttgart. He was made an Honorary Member of the Natural History Society of New York in 1817.〔''Charter, constitution, and by-laws of the Lyceum of Natural History in the City of New-York. Incorporated April 20, 1818'' (1837), p. 24; (archive.org ).〕 He lived at 7, Taunton Place, Regent's Park. Carl August Dohrn, investigating the fate of part of the Linnean Collection that passed to James Edward Smith, described Clark in 1851 as the last survivor of Smith's friends.〔 ''Stettiner entomologische Zeitung'' vol. 12 (1851), p. 131; (archive.org ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bracy Clark」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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