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UNFAIR PLAY. 
Trusting you will take notice of this in your next number, if 
possible, either by this letter or any other way you may think 
best, believe me, 
Your’s, & c. 
UNFAIR PLAY. 
Gentlemen, — I HEREWITH enclose you a few articles taken from 
the “ Armagh Ulster Gazette and Sporting Chronicle,” of which 
Mr. M. Small, Veterinary Surgeon, is the proprietor. My object in 
so doing, is to expose a system which has been and is still carried 
on in that paper, and which I am aware is contrary to the invariable 
practice of the press. I beg to direct your attention to an article 
headed “ Warranty,” to which Mr. Small has appended the initials 
of his own name instead of that of the worthy professor of the 
Edinburgh Veterinary College, as given in The VETERINARIAN 
of 1841, page 16. The article on navicular disease you will 
at once recognize as that of Mr. J. Turner, in The VETERINARIAN, 
vol. ii, page 54. The letter addressed to the editor of the Ulster 
Gazette, you will also recognize as taken from The VETE- 
RINARIAN, being a portion of a communication addressed to you 
as the editor. There are many other articles he has acted the 
same way with ; but I have not now the papers in which they ap- 
peared, as I sent them to a friend in England ; there are, however, 
two articles which occur to my mind, of which I took notes, viz. the 
article on Monomania, Veterinarian, vol. viii, page 393-4. Cases 
1 and 3, he published in his paper, and appended the initials of his 
own name ; but in case 1, instead of a “ Piedmontese officer” he 
inserted “ a Scotch friend of mine.” In case 3, he stated the 
objects to be red instead of white . He also published an article on 
the “ Prevention and Palliation of Lameness in the Feet of Horses,” 
extracted verbatim from the Farrier and Naturalist , to which he 
appended his own name. What will the advocates now say of the 
exclusive system of circulation of The VETERINARIAN, when a 
member of the profession will extract articles from it to insert in a 
provincial paper without acknowledging from whence he took them] 
Nay, not contented with robbing a Journal of some of its most valu- 
able articles, he extracts the private correspondence of others, and 
appends his own name to them ; a very honourable way to become 
a veterinary writer. But I must cease ; he is the author of the 
“Veterinary Tablet.” I considered it my duty to apprise you of 
