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treat him at the barracks. I refused to do so, as I had not 
then received my patent, you alleging that the Colonel would 
not allow the horse to be sent away, as nothing would be 
allowed for the treatment. I at once said that I would 
remove all difficulty on that head, for I would both keep and 
treat him for nothing, and by my success or failure I would 
be judged. In about a week after you called at my infirmary, 
and said you had obtained the Colonel's consent, that the 
horse should be sent the next morning at eight o’clock. At 
the time appointed I had a box properly prepared to receive 
the horse, waited anxiously for more than a week for his 
arrival, and then considered that it was only on a par with 
the other treatment I was then receiving from veterinary 
surgeons. Horses were now crowding upon me — my in- 
firmary was full ; and when, after eleven days had elapsed, I 
considered I had only been fooled, I at once refused to have 
any further to do with the case, especially as I had trium- 
phantly proved the truth of the effects of my “ Remedy .” 
With respect to Mr. Harry Daws, I can assure him that I 
can well afford to treat with contempt his abuse of me ; and 
as for the “less scientific and ignorant men of the pro- 
fession,” they must answer for themselves, and it will only 
prove, if he is right, that diplomas are given to cloak igno- 
rance and want of scientific knowledge. I can tell Mr. Harry 
Daws, however, that men in all parts of the country, of the 
first rank as veterinary surgeons, are using my “ Remedy” as 
a substitute for “ firing ;” and if you, Sir, wish to be satisfied 
of that fact, I shall be ready at once to give you proof. 
Mr. Daws’s truthful statement is a wanton perversion of facts, 
and is worthy of his communication to Bell’s Life on the 
horse I cured for spavin belonging to Major Pitt. In a 
note to a letter from Mr. Sibbald in your last, you say that 
only one horse was treated by me, and that was a failure. I 
treated two for Major Pitt, and they were not failures, which 
I am ready and willing to prove. Mr. Harry Daws wrote to 
Bell’s Life , after going to the Regent’s Park Barracks, and 
surreptitiously writing a certificate, in which he had the 
unblushing effrontery to say, that that horse had not been 
relieved of a spavin, and that curing was out of the question. 
Major Pitt thus answers him : — 
“ Mr. Editor, — I have seen my name occupying a 
prominent place in your columns for some time past ; and 
last Sunday a member of the veterinary profession thought 
fit to give, unasked by me, a certificate of unsoundness on a 
horse of mine he merely asked permission to inspect. 1 
