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E. MINK. 
Mi. Miles called on me a little over a year ago, when he claimed 
originality for his method, and I then informed him that I was aware of 
the fact, that a method similar to his own had been practiced for some 
years, by that learned, accomplished and practical, blit modest Veterin¬ 
arian, Prof. James Law, of Cornell University. It will be noticed 
on leferring to the circulars of Mr. Miles, that the first year in which he 
refers to numbers and success was in 1874. Whether he practiced it 
before that I do not know, but I do know that Prof. Law practiced it 
in 1870, and am informed that he has practiced it for at least eight 
years, quite extensively and with satisfactory results. 
Nearly three years ago, I asked Mr. Law if this method was original 
with him, I think his answer was that he operated in the manner alluded to 
before he heard of it from any other source, but that he afterwards read 
of its having been practiced by others. He was inclined to think that 
it was hist peiformed by Danish Veterinarians. In your last number of 
the Review , you give accounts of its having been performed by others, 
and of one Mr. Parret, a Frenchman, who made a specialty of operating 
by this method. 
These facts show the superlative folly of the excessive laudation 
which is lavished upon Mr. Miles. 
One effect of such fulsome praise is to increase the egotism, vanity 
and conceit, of which he was nearly full to repletion, before he received 
it. Here is a man so filled with charlatanism, that he sings his own 
praises wherever he goes, He is loud in proclaiming at all times, on all 
occasions, and in all places, that he can spay cows, and castrate ridg- 
lings better than any other man in America can do it. Yes, he even 
goes further than this, he offers $500 to any man who will meet him, 
and do the work as well. 
But even this offer is not sufficient to satisfy him, that he has pro¬ 
claimed enough to satisfy the world of his immense skill, usefulness and 
superiority, and so he goes further with no apparent fear of faring worse, 
and dares any man to make him half that offer. 
Is this the kind of man for regularly educated Veterinarians to indorse 
and cover with certificates ? Is this the kind of man for any one who 
professes to be guided by a proper code of Veterinary ethics to indorse? 
Why, what have we here ! Here we have Veterinarians, from the prin¬ 
cipal of a college and from an editor of one of the best Veterinary jour¬ 
nals known, on down to the Veterinary wasp of Wilkes' Spi?~it , recom¬ 
mending to the world this boasting specialist, who has no regard for any 
