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major's BRITISH REMEDY. 
I in advance of the present system. But when the present 
system has exhausted its abilities, and has tortured the animal 
twice, or even thrice, each time receiving the fee, after all 
have failed, and then, under my treatment, have been returned 
to their owners perfectly sound, and without torture," &c. 
&c. Now, Sir, I would use a vulgarism — “ not so fast, Mr. 
Major; you assume as facts what I assert to be the con- 
trary, and shall judge you from your own pen." In page 10, 
Mr. Major states that his remedy decomposed the ossification, 
or predisposition to ossify, and, more marvellous than all, 
“ wdthout giving the animal pain." Why, therefore, I ask, 
does Mr. Major enter so much into detail at page 13, of the 
treatment to be pursued at a time when his innocuous remedy 
causes sloughing , which is well known to be the last stage of 
inflammation and pain, and to be preparatory to the death 
of the subjacent parts ? No wonder, indeed, there should be 
a permanent cicatrix on poor Major Pitt’s horse ! From the 
above facts, how can he assert that he can use his remedy 
without pain ? Therefore, to him and the public there has 
been a grand delusion. 
I had almost forgotten the quotation of Major’s Lotion, to 
cure the “sloughing effects" of his Remedy. But it is such 
a “ rum ” one 1 must quote it, since it puts me in mind of 
a Farrier Major, who set up in business in a town where 
there were three veterinary surgeons in good practice. He 
purchased a barrel of whiskey, bottled it off into eight-ounce 
vials, advertised it as “ A Farrier Major’s Remedy” for Worms, 
The first groom that came to the pharmacy, and received 
“ The Remedy ," was informed, that if any of the bottle should 
be left, after effecting a cure on the horse, and if he himself, 
or any of his children, w ere affected with worms, it would be 
equally efficacious w 7 ith them, as it was quite innocuous. To 
prove w hich, the Farrier Major put the Remedy to his mouth, 
and sw^allow ed an ounce of it, and requested the groom to do 
the same, w 7 hich he did, and liked it very much, for he “ smelt 
the rat’’ He returned in a week after, and said all his mas- 
ter’s horses w 7 ere affected wfith w T orms, and received the 
requisite number of bottles of the “ Remedy.” Day after day, 
shoals of grooms arrived at the laboratory of the Farrier Major 
for his “ Remedy." In fact, there was a worm epizootic — all 
the horses in the town were constantly being eaten up with 
worms, and nothing could cure them, but the “ Farrier Ma- 
jor’s Remedy.” It is needless to say the “ Remedy ” was soon 
found out : it told its own tale. 
Mr. Major recommends, in cases of “ sloughing," arising 
from his Remedy, the following lotion: — f Half a pint 
