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major's BRITISH REMEDY. 
MAJOR’S “ BRITISH REMEDY.” 
Dear Sir, — In accordance with your expressed wish, I 
send you the outlines of the case referred to by me in your 
March number. The animal is a chesnut mare, aged, 
worked only during the season as a hunter. 
About the middle of the season 1851-2, she began to go 
rather lame with the right hind-leg. On being consulted, I 
referred the lameness to the hock. Little was done in the way 
of palliation, and the mare took her regular turns of work 
until the finish of the season, leaving off very lame, with 
exostosis making its appearance over the usual seat of spavin. 
Iodine, and subsequently the “ burning-iron,” was applied ; 
and when her term of rest was expired she was quite sound ; 
but, before she was fairly again got into condition, her lame- 
ness reappeared, and the stronger her exercise the worse she 
became. 
In this state, she passed into the hands of an old and 
influential member of the Cambridgeshire Hunt, who, seeing 
Mr. Major’s advertisement, purchased a bottle of the “ Re- 
medy,” and requested me to superintend the application, 
&c. I applied it myself on the 7th of December last; the 
inunctions of rum and goose-grease were regularly per- 
formed. No swelling took place; but, in about a fortnight, 
signs of suppuration were perceived around the edges of the 
part to which the application had been made, and in another 
week a thick slough of cuticle was easily removed in one 
piece, leaving a healthy granulating surface, with well-defined 
edges, the exostosis sticking boldly up in the middle. The 
alum lotion was occasionally applied during the healing, 
which progressed rapidly. The mare occupied a loose box 
during the whole of the treatment, and when first exercised 
gently was considerably better (doubtless from the rest); but 
she had only been w 7 alked out a few times wdien she became as 
lame as ever . Since then she has had nothing but quiet 
exercise, and is now lamer than before the “Remedy* was applied ; 
and with a hock denuded of hair — indeed, the piece of 
cuticle removed carried w ith it nearly the whole of the marks 
made by the firing- iron. 
If you can spare me space for a remark or tw r o, I must 
ask what honorable man can, in any way, come in contact 
with a person who publishes an untruth? for such, according 
to your ow T n and Mr. Daw’s statements, is the case of Major 
Pitt’s horse.* 
* Major Pitt has since contradicted this “ statement.” 
