VARIETIES AND NEWS. 
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THE HORSE DOCTOR’S BOGUS DIPLOMAS. 
[.From the Times of Philadelphia.^ 
The final hearing of Robert McClure, charged with issuing bogus 
diplomas, was held yesterday at the Central. Dr. Alfred L. Elwyn 
testified that his signatures to the diplomas was a forgery. He said 
that about seventeen or eighteen years ago he was President of the 
Philadelphia Veterinary College, but has had nothing to do with it since 
1862, and did not know if it was still in operation. He had never au¬ 
thorized any person to sign his name. 
Thomas C. Davis, of the firm of Spangler & Davis, printers, recog¬ 
nized the diplomas as having been printed at their establishment, and 
identified McClure as the man who had ordered them. 
J. H. Warren, professor and teacher of penmanship at Pierce’s 
College, at Tenth and Chestnut Streets, testified that he had written the 
signatures on the diplomas by McClure’s authority. He did not re¬ 
member if an original was before him. The Magistrate held McClure 
in $800 bail for procuring money under false pretences, in $1,000 for 
selling medical diplomas, and in $1,200 for uttering and publishing a 
forged instrument of writing, making in all $3,000. Three of the dip¬ 
lomas were used as evidence in court—one made out in the name of 
John Wesley, one in the name of A. H. Pope, and the third in the name 
of Francis Standen. The latter person had made the complaint. The 
diplomas had the forged signatures of A. L. Elwyn, as president; 
George W. Closs, secretary; Robert McClure, M. D., and John H. 
Gould, M. D. 
NEW CURE FOR HYDROPHOBIA. 
Take one and one-half ounce of elecampane root bruised, put in a 
half pint of milk, reduced to one-half by boiling; then take all at one 
dose in the morning, fasting until afternoon, or at least a very light diet 
after several hours have elapsed. The second dose the same as the first, 
except take two ounces of the root. Third dose same as the last, to be 
taken every other day. Three doses are all that is needed, and there 
need be no fear .... (that you will escape). This has been 
used for over forty years in and around Philadelphia, etc., etc. 
We hope our learned colleagues of Alfort will experiment with this 
as they did with the xanthium spinosum, and show the folly of the 
operation. 
