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and relief at once afforded : and, in the second place, to shew the 
advantage of freely opening up the seat of injury when discovered, 
because in this case, notwithstanding the extent of suppuration, 
and the exfoliation of a portion of the os pedis, an inch in length, 
half an inch broad by a quarter of an inch thick, the disease was 
checked without breaking out at the coronet, and the whole of the 
surface thus exposed is now covering with horn, and the horse at 
work. 
In your last number, I find a letter from Mr. Wells, in which 
he states that he did not make any demand upon me in his former 
letter, — that he only regretted I did not comply with Mr. Fisher’s 
request. His re-perusal however of Mr. Fisher’s letters, and, if he 
chooses, the perusal of Mr. Litt’s letter in the last number of The 
Veterinary Record , will, I think, be sufficient to satisfy him that 
the nature of those communications precludes me from bestowing 
on their authors any other answer than the one I have already 
given. Mr. Wells goes on, in his last, to charge me with incon- 
sistency, in not giving the treatment of all the cases commented 
on, or no treatment at all, and thus makes himself party with 
Messrs. Fisher and Litt. He is as anxious as they are to draw 
me out; but he should recollect that while he and they are anxious 
to have an easy road to knowledge, some of his and their brethren 
of the same school are by no means so fond of such professional 
communications being made to the public. How long is it since 
grievous complaints were made against Professor Sewell, for pub- 
lishing what he considered the best treatment for the murrain in 
cattle ? — or how long is it since an attempt was made to prevent 
the public getting any advantage by the publication of the scien- 
tific dissertations, discussions, and “ Transactions of the Veterinary 
Medical Association” of the London veterinary school, formerly 
published in the pages of your Journal, by the withdrawal of 
their reports for the purpose of publishing them for private circu- 
lation! to which association I presume Messrs. Wells, Fisher, and 
Litt, belong, or, if not to the Association, at least to the School. I 
therefore think that, before he charges me with inconsistency, he 
should look at home, and see whether he has done as he would 
wish to be done by. 
