MAJOR S BRITISH REMEDY. 
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We have proved that Mr. Major has contradicted himself, 
and consequently we feel justified in requiring unexceptional 
evidence before we believe his assertions, our only object 
being to protect those for whom we write from a deception as 
great and real, as it may seem plausible at first sight to the 
inexperienced. 
Whatever good there may be in Mr. Major’s remedy, (and 
we do not doubt that it has some advantages,) we would not 
have any one place a blind reliance upon the professions set 
forth in its favour. The more so that veterinary science has 
made such a rapid advance of late years, and so many ex- 
cellent practitioners are to be found in almost every town in 
England, whose judgment and skill render such desperate 
expedients as trusting to that impossibility — a universal 
specific — an act of the grossest folly . — The Field , Jan. \5th. 
MAJOR’S BRITISH REMEDY. 
To the Editor of ( The Field * 
Dear Sir, — My attention has been this day called to an 
article in your last week’s paper, in which you notice a pam- 
phlet published for the purpose of explaining my mode of 
treatment in the cure of ringbones, spavins, &c. With the 
tenour of your remarks in general I cannot complain of, 
neither do I wish to impugn their justice; whatever I have 
stated you have a perfect right to comment upon ; and as I 
know your only aim is to elicit the facts or fallacy of the 
case, I sincerely thank you when you say “ We are the 
advocates of no party, we want the truth, and whoever are 
the promulgators, w r e shall welcome them as the benefactors 
of their race.” 
Such then being your principles, and no doubt your motto 
is “ Audi alteram partem,” I respectfully ask you for a space 
in your valuable Journal, to explain what you seem to think 
inconsistencies in my statement. I do not consider myself, 
neither do I wish to be considered, a martyr, nor w r as it my inten- 
tion to set my opinions against men of science in either by-gone 
times or the present day. What I wished to make appear was, 
that I believed I had found out a remedy that was likely 
to supersede the barbarous and most doubtful practice of 
“ firing,” and that 1 have done so has been fully proved. In 
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