440 MR. MAYHEW’S SECOND LETTER TO MR. BARLOW. 
In a few cases it terminates in the formation of matter, but not fre- 
quently. Small scarifications with the lancet are occasionally 
required, and the application of a mild petroleum embrocation 
during the suppurative stage ; and to ward off gangrene, mild 
stimulants are requisite. The animals must be housed. 
I have briefly narrated the malady, and hope its being recorded 
in The Veterinarian will prove to be the means of eliciting 
from members of the profession, whether such a disease has been 
endemial in their locality or neighbourhood. 
MR. MAYHEW’S SECOND LETTER TO MR. BARLOW. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, — I must confess that I am much hurt by the 
answer which Mr. Barlow sent to The Veterinarian. I had 
anticipated that candour — not to mention honour or gentlemanly 
feeling — would have suggested the propriety of an opposite course. 
It is painful to see an individual holding a public situation de- 
scending to the meanness of abuse and the grossness of personality, 
in order to direct attention from blunders and blemishes too great 
to be defended or concealed. 
How much of that which Mr. Barlow has written with the 
intention of casting odium on myself falls pointless, when I can 
assert that I am personally unknown to that individual, and have, 
for years, lived hundreds of miles from the place where he resides ! 
What can he know of me ] How does he appear when he ven- 
tures to make derogatory allusions to a person of whom he can 
know nothing ] Would it gratify his sensibility if I was to apply 
to him the only term by which such conduct can be characterized] 
Among the ignorant and vulgar, coarseness may be thought wit; 
and any expression meant to degrade or pain another may be hailed 
as a joke. In the streets of London, and among the purlieus of 
St. Giles’, “ chaff” of this description is highly relished ; but 
elsewhere, by all above the lowest order of society, such language 
is listened to with disgust. 
Mr. Barlow is not so well established in public respect that he 
can afford thus to fling away his character ; and the position which 
he holds should teach him the absolute necessity of resisting the 
temptations to which his taste or disposition may expose him. 
For myself, I smile : concerning me, personally, he has only, in 
ignorance, written folly. For him I grieve. 
