78 USING A GLANDERED HORSE IN A PUBLIC VEHICLE. 
and therefore, I would ask, of what has Mr. Dollar to 
complain? Does he wish to bend others to his views, be 
they right or wrong? Suppose the verdict had been the 
opposite to what it was, should I have thought the decision of 
the magistrate, or Mr. Dollar’s statement, likely to injure my 
reputation ? Certainly not; I should have considered that 
both had acted conscientiously. Notwithstanding my opi¬ 
nion, it appears that the horse was returned to the owner 
instead of being destroyed; and I think that from Mr. Dollar 
not considering the case to be one of glanders, he was 
warranted in having recourse to the treatment of the animal; 
and supposing, as is now alleged, that thereby he was relieved, 
I should have been pleased to have been made acquainted 
with the fact, and especially if, at the end of a year, or a year 
and a half, not two or three months, I should have been con¬ 
vinced by a re-examination that a cure had been effected, I 
should have given credit to Mr. Dollar. 
This seems to me to be something like the course which, 
as veterinary surgeons, we ought to take one with the other. 
Instead of this, what does Mr. Dollar do ? why he takes a horse , 
and, as he says—the one 1 examined in September, 1858— 
to several veterinary surgeons, who give certificates that the 
horse is not affected with glanders, and in good condition. 
None of them, however, with the exception of Mr. Mavor, 
says anything about the existence of numerous cicatrices on 
each side of the septum nasi , and of a thickening of the tissues 
between the branches of the lower jaw. 
Now I would ask, What is all this trouble taken for? Is 
it that Mr. Dollar has no faith in his own judgment as to 
whether the horse is cured or not ? or is it a mode he has 
preferred to adopt to increase his popularity, and that too at 
the expense of others ? 
To say the least, it is certainly most unprofessional; but 
compared with the after proceeding it is nothing. I feel 
ashamed to acknowledge that there are those who can act in 
a clandestine way, to obtain their objects. Such has been 
Mr. Dollar’s conduct in sending a horse to the College for 
examination in the name of another person ; and this not the 
owner, as I am informed, but some one who was weak enough 
to allow himself to be made a tool of. 
The following particulars relate to the examination of a 
bay horse sent to the College for general examination on the 
14th January, 1859, by Mr. Martin. 
On asking the man who came with the horse to whom he 
belonged, he replied, to his master, and that his master’s 
name was Martin. Further, that his occupation was that of 
