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bearding (as he boasts) the professional lions in their den. 
For, robed in philanthropic garb, and pitying the sorrows of 
the poor old horse, 
— did he 
From the Western world’s shores, 
To our fond Alma Mater, bring 
His never-failing bone-dispersing drops, 
And with subtle words 
To her high conservators — said 
with unpresumptuous diffidence, Oh ! Professors — and with- 
out anticipation of emolument — I offer to your notice my specific 
for trial in any cases that you may have in your hospital. 
A most insidious plot, and well concocted, to obtain a full- 
toned trumpet to proclaim afar his monstrous nostrum ; for 
well, no doubt, did Mr. Major know, when spavins , curls , 
ringbones , &c., are curable , the veriest tool can do so by coun- 
ter-irritation of some or any sort; and as his nostrum 
(perhaps his father's black oil) is, as he asserts, a “ sloughing" 
irritant, of course, then, out of many cases, why should not 
Mr. Major succeed in some ? When offered within the sacred 
walls of our ancient Alma Mater, however, the gods within did 
not so decree, and with calm but stern dignity replied — No ! 
Major, 
“ Thy satchel 
Thou shalt not uphere hang.’' 
With that he went his way, nothing daunted, in search of 
other means on which his nostrums still to try. He informs 
us, he was successful in obtaining a patient, the property of 
an extensive omnibus proprietor, viz., a brown mare, afflicted 
much with ringbones and spavins , on which he used his “ British 
Remedy," and, as he asserts, with complete success ; a record 
of wfflich I find in his pamphlet. In it, however, there seems 
a strange economising of truth ; for the Messrs. Wilson, w T ho 
are members of the firm alluded to, informed m z, personally, 
that the brown mare was not cured by Mr. Major’s “ British 
Remedy" of ringbones or spavins. So much, then, for the 
first case professed and asserted to be cured by the “ British 
Remedy." Passing over, then, the various t other cases of 
cure registered in the pamphlet, however true or false they may 
be , I arrive almost at the termination of the list of cures , and 
find one of Major Pitt's horses stated to be a successful 
case, but, from incontrovertible authority, proved not to be 
the fact ; therefore, with these " cum multis aliis" we find a 
vast economy of confirmatory facts. 
Arriving, in my perusal of the pamphlet, at^ page 8, I find 
