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BRITISH REMEDY. 
fallacies under which Mr. Major labours, especially as he 
states, he will pursue the same course in his remarks on 
spavins as he has on his Remedy number one. 
I have the honour to be, &c. 
Dublin; 18/A March , 1853. 
P.S. Of course, Mr. Editor, any phraseology in my remarks 
towards Mr. Major, have merely reference to him as compiler 
of the pamphlet. — E. D. 
*** At the time the above was written, Mr. Dycer had 
not seen Major Pitt’s contradiction of Mr. Daws’s opinion of 
the treatment of his horse ; neither could Mr. Dycer, of 
course, have seen the following communication from Mr. 
Major. — Ed. Vet. 
BRITISH REMEDY. 
By Joseph Major. 
Sir, — Although you have thought proper to give, in your 
March Number, what you are pleased to denominate a 
“ truthful” statement by Mr. Daws, but which I must at once 
call an unwarranted and unprincipled attack upon me and 
my “ British Remedy,’’ and is only “ part and parcel” of the 
conduct of that individual to carry out his often-repeated 
vain-boasting to put down me and my mode of treatment, — 
boastings which are to me as contemptible as they are futile. 
Since, Sir, from your character and position in your pro- 
fession, I cannot bring my mind to think that you yourself 
would willingly pervert facts so simple in themselves, merely 
to put down what you may consider “ humbug,” I have 
therefore to ask you, if your object be to elicit truth, to give 
insertion to the following, which, I can safely say, is a 
truthful statement , and I defy contradiction to the contrary. 
In what you state as regards your own conduct towards 
me, you would wish to make it appear that I wanted to 
decline experimenting upon the horse you provided for me, 
and try to make it believed, that I excused myself for so 
doing because there was no room in my infirmary. By this, 
you would wish it to be known that I used that as a subter- 
fuge ; but it is very far from the fact. As soon as possible, 
after receiving your intimation, I waited upon you, when 
you stated you had the horse in question, and wished me to 
