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dition that you send immediately for the gentleman who attends 
your horse, I will go with you and combat the urgent symptoms, 
and on his arrival will give up the case to him.” This was 
done; and the practitioner’s thanks were the only acknowledg¬ 
ment Mr. Gowing received or required for the trouble he had 
taken. No matter how I became possessed of this narrative ; suf¬ 
fice it to add, my authority is indisputable, and I trust my friend 
will excuse its insertion here without his knowledge or consent: it 
is a tribute of admiration for his conduct as a professional man 
which I could not resist paying him. 
In conclusion, Sir, I wrote privately to Mr. Mavor, requesting 
an explanation of his motives, a copy of which note I enclose. In 
return, he writes to say, he was not requested to consult any one; 
but that the owner, being dissatisfied with my treatment, sent for 
him; that he had nothing to do with me, save to ascertain what 
treatment I had adopted (a copy of this note I also enclose). With 
what took place between Mr. Mavor and the owner of the horse I 
have nothing to do. I maintain the two positions—1st, that my 
consent was asked ; and, 2dly, that I met Mr. Mavor on the case, 
and received no hint from him that he intended to take it into his 
own hands. And I confess, Sir, I did not at all dream that I was 
sent for in order to be the honoured instrument of imparting to him 
what my treatment had been, and thus give him an opportunity 
of inferring what to do by negative deductions from what had al¬ 
ready been done. 
Allow me, Sir, to state, that I throw away all personal or vindic¬ 
tive feeling, and make this matter clearly a public consideration, 
on the broad assumption, that, if the veterinary profession is a re¬ 
gularly constituted body, then an insult offered to the meanest 
subject is an injury to the whole constitution. 
I remain, Sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
G. T. Brown, M.R.C.Y.S. 
Infirmary, 
40 & 41, Park-crescent Mews West, 
New-road, 13th April, 1849. 
Copy of Letter to Mr. Mavor. 
Saturday, April 7, 1849, 
Mr. Mavor, jun., 40, Park-crescent Mews West, New-road. 
Sir, —FINDING, on inquiry, that you have discontinued your 
attendance on Mr. Jones’ horse, I feel myself at liberty to make a 
few comments, which, while you were still in attendance, the pos¬ 
sible imputation of mercenary motives to my conduct kept me from 
attempting. 
