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major's BRITISH REMEDY. 
Has seen many deaths from pleuro-pneumonia subsequent 
to inoculation. Considers M. Willems far too confident in 
the value of the operation ; and adds that when these suc- 
cessful ^-inoculations and occurrences of the disease after 
inoculation have been named to him, he has always answered, 
“ All such results depend entirely on improper original in- 
oculations, for when these are properly done, the operation 
is a perfect and complete prophylactic." M. Douterluigne 
also informed me that he had frequently visited Hasselt, and 
made inquiries independent of Dr. Willems, and found there 
were many objectors to the practice, and also doubters of its 
efficacy. I learned also from him that in the neighbourhood 
of Brussels very few cattle had been inoculated, and that 
several veterinary surgeons in different parts of the country, 
from observing the ill effects, had declined to go on with the 
practice. 
[This report is dated September, 1852; and since it was sent in, we learn that 
the Royal Agricultural Society has been enabled, through the liberality of Mr. 
Paget of Ruddington, near Nottingham, to place about a hundred animals under 
• Mr. Simonds’ charge for inoculation. The /esults of these experiments will be 
given in the next number of the Society’s Journal.] 
MAJOR’S BRITISH REMEDY, FOR THE CURE OF SPAVINS, 
ALL TUMOURS, OSSIFICATIONS, &c., IN THE HORSE. 
A cure for Bone Spavins and Ring Bones ! — To announce 
it would surely be one of the most pleasing duties which 
could fall to the lot of a chronicler of events, marking Vete- 
rinary progress — if such a cure existed. We are informed, 
that Mr. Major, an Englishman by birth, practised as a 
Veterinary Surgeon in America, and for years turned his 
attention to the eradication of the bone spavins, ring bones, 
&c. After some years of study, he discovered his present 
preparation, which has been used for some time with almost 
unvaried success in the United States, under the title of 
“ Major’s British Remedy." By the advice of his friends, he 
came to England a few weeks ago, in order to extend the 
benefits of his discovery to his own countrymen. It is 
reported, that the most complete success has crowned his 
efforts ; and that, notwithstanding the opposition which he 
is stated to have encountered, when appealing to the chiefs 
of the Veterinary College, in order that his discovery might 
be practically tested, according to its real merits. In fact, it 
is insinuated that Mr. Major has been made one of the piti- 
