A LETTER FROM MR. T. A. DOLLAR. 
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and white must not be trusted with; it must be delivered to 
the safe-keeping of the servant’s memory. * * * * 
As regards the opinion that the horse had a peculiar cough, 
strongly indicative of tubercles in the lungs, I will stake my 
professional reputation, and the price of the horse, if Professor 
Varnell is willing to do the same, and have the horse slaugh¬ 
tered ; and if there are tubercles found in his lungs, I will 
forfeit both. 
The love of fair play, Messrs. Editors, is a national feeling 
that most Englishmen are proud to boast the possession of. I 
am afraid that any person reading your leader, ‘ On Using a 
Glandered Horse in a Public Vehicle/ will entirely fail to 
discover the existence of such a virtue. The opinions of all 
the eminent veterinary surgeons who have examined the 
horse, and the whole facts of the history of the case, are to 
go for nothing. Our colleague, Professor Varnell, must be 
bolstered on his legs again, even in the face of his own testi¬ 
mony in the matter; for he is a professor, and our worthy 
colleague, and, therefore, infallible. Materials are wanting 
to effect that object as far as the facts of the case itself are 
concerned, so negative materials are imported, dressed up to 
suit the occasion, and thereby, if possible, mislead the public. 
An instance is quoted of a horse having periodical attacks 
of glanders, the leading symptoms of which disease disap¬ 
peared under simple treatment, and the horse being put to 
work again, infected numerous other animals, which had to 
be sent to the knackers to the number of six and eight at a 
time. Were the Editors not aware, when penning the above, 
that glanders is an incurable disease, the leading symptoms 
of which will not disappear under simple treatment, and that 
the general remarks they have made go a long way to prove 
that his was not a case of glanders at all, and therefore, the 
fact of other horses in the stock becoming glandered, is most 
unjustly ascribed to his presence ? 
Why was the horse not shown to the veterinary surgeon of 
police, whose evidence agreed wdth the original certificate of 
Mr. Varnell? The horse was submitted for the inspection of 
the Commissioners of Police, and they caused the veterinary 
surgeon to the force (Mr. Cherry) to examine him; after his 
examination, they gave formal permission for the horse to be 
worked in a public vehicle, which I do not think they would 
have done had their veterinary surgeon considered he was 
glandered. 
You are pleased to stigmatise me as the man of boasted 
specifics, alias, a quack. I am prepared to stand by 
the decision of the public as to whether they can discover 
