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for some time, and refused to eat anything for a day or so, as a 
result of which he emaciated very rapidly. The discharge from 
his nose again set in and was followed by another from the mouth 
the odor from which was very similar to that present with the 
animal when he first came from Point Breeze. I immediately 
wrote Mr. Parks again and told him all the symptoms. I received 
an answer from him stating that he was not at all surprised; that 
the discharge from his nose for six months was from no ordinary 
cause, and that he was very anxious to get the horse to Mr. 
Backman’s place, where he would have a good home for the rest 
of his life, and that he would send for him on the following Fri¬ 
day. Accordingly on the following Friday evening, July 30, he 
left my place in charge of Mr. Alonzo Nodine, of Brooklyn, New 
York, to whom I gave ail the information 1 could concerning the 
method of feeding, dressing and caring for the animal that I had 
employed since the removal of the teeth. 
Now, Mr. Editor, I am sorry I have been compelled to extend 
this to so great a length, but I want the public to have the facts 
of the case from the beginning, and while I am not so anxious to 
crave credit as to assert that other articles are wilful falsehoods, 
I do say they were misrepresentations, and cast a reflection upon 
me that I felt duty bound to correct in order to vindicate myself. 
I should have replied to them long ago, but that I felt that while 
the horse was in my possession I should keep perfectly silent. 
I am, sir, with respect, 
Yours very truly, 
¥m. B. E. Miller, D.V.S. 
Philadelphia, June 19, 1880. 
Prof. Liautard: 
Dear Sir :—I was requested by Dr. W. B. E. Miller, of Cam¬ 
den, N. J., to examine the horse “ Prospero ” yesterday morning 
before he destroyed him. The doctor informed me he was afflicted 
with the disease commonly known as “ big head,” and that you 
had been sent on by Mr. Parks to examine him and had pronounced 
it an incurable case of that disease, and advised the horse’s de¬ 
struction, which the owner wished Dr. M. to put into effect as 
