MR. MAYER IN REPLY TO lAl R. C. CLARK. 479 
disorganization of the lungs; but the pleura was only roughened 
with lymph. 
In my next letter I may say a few words more on this subject, 
particularly on the treatment of what may be termed accidental 
bronchitis. 
MR. MAYER IN REPLY TO MR. CHARLES CLARK. 
Sir,—I have had the honour of laying before a meeting of 
veterinary surgeons your communication*, inserted in the last 
month’s Veterinarian, and am authorised by them to address 
to you the following communication, which they have agreed 
upon. 
I remain, yours, &c. 
Thomas Walton Mayer, V.S. 
Chairman. 
It is with considerable reluctance we find ourselves called 
upon to make observations and statements which, we trusted, the 
method we had taken of making known our sentiments to you 
would have totally prevented; and were it not that you have 
thought proper to make several statements which will, if allowed 
to remain uncontradicted, materially alter the tone and character 
of your intended reply, we should have considered it unbecoming 
in us to offer any farther observations. 
We learn, wdth considerable surprise, from the first part of 
your communication, that ^^you find yourself called upon to 
prove an allegation made in The Lancet some ten years ago.’’ It 
surprises us, because we read the statement which we called 
upon you to prove in The Veterinarian in the month of 
May last. With any statements made by you in journals not 
directly connected with veterinary science, we beg to inform you 
we have nothing to do; nor were we aware that you had ever pre¬ 
viously made such a statement, until acquainted by yourself; 
consequently, we could not call upon you to maintain it. 
The statement in your reply to Mr. Morgan, and which was in¬ 
serted in the May number of The Veterinarian (and which 
we requested you to prove), is, we presumed, what you believed to 
be true, and intended to appear as the truth up to the time of its 
insertion, to which insertion we beg to remind you the following 
note was attached* :—If this singular assertion is doubted, I 
am ready to undertake the proof of it in a concise and straight¬ 
forward manner.—C. C.” This was the challenge—a challenge 
not made by us—made by you, and proclaimed before the whole 
♦ S<‘c Yktimunauian, May, )>. 24/. 
