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MR. MAYOR ON MR. BICKFORD. 
bath). In my experience they have afforded great relief, and fre- 
quently a permanent cure in chronic rheumatisms, catarrh, drop- 
sical swellings, nervous irritability, paralytic affections, psora 
and mange, glandular obstructions, painful swellings, weakness 
and stiffness in the joints, indigestion, scirrhous tumours, and 
diseases of the skin. If we may judge from analogy, such a 
powerful agent, in the hands of an intelligent practitioner, no 
doubt will prove of singular service in the cure of many a dis- 
ease to which the lower animals are liable. 
With due deference to Mr. Field’s bath, I find a most material 
apparatus wanting, namely, a disperser ; that is, an oblong box 
with a lid and hinge, the whole extent of the lid perforated like 
a shower-bath. The connecting tube or tubes conveying the va- 
pour should be introduced through an orifice into one or both 
ends of the disperser. The vapour, in passing through the holes 
in the lid, is equally diffused in the bath, and not in a torrent of 
hot steam issuing from the mouth of a tube acting on one parti- 
cular part of the patient. 
Again ; if you do not scald the horse, you can only give a 
simple vapour-bath, as the camphor, &c. is put into the disperser, 
which ought to form part of the bottom of the bathing horse- 
box. 
I told you in my last there was latent caloric among us : 
already the steam is up, with safety valves and connecting 
tubes . 
Leicester, 
5th January, 1843. 
Mr. Mayer, Sen. on Mr. Bickford. 
Newcastle, Jan. 10, 1843. 
Dear Sir, — In reading over Mr. Bickford’s communication 
to your Journal of this month, I was much surprised to find, in 
allusion to Sir James Graham, the epithet “ recreant whig” ap- 
plied to him. 
Now, I was not before aware that the pages of The Vete- 
rinarian were ever intended to convey the remotest atom of 
political feeling, but have always considered it ground sacred to 
science, where men of all shades of political and religious prin- 
ciples could meet and extend the right hand of fellowship, cast- 
ing an eye of brotherly affection upon each other. 
