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tion in certain diseases, of which laminitis in one of its forms is 

 effected. I am equally convinced that the same or another 

 class of diseases, 'namely, of the blood, in what is called the 

 1 rheumatic diathesis,' may be inter-communicable between the 

 respiratory, the digestive, and the locomotive organs, through 

 the medium, primarily, of the circulatory system, as well as the 

 sympathetic ramifications of the nervous system. In this view 

 may be found a possible solution of 



A PROBLEM THAT PUZZLES MOST WRITERS 



to account for, and an approach to a rational explanation of the 

 modus operandi by which the inter-transpositions of disease of 

 any one organ to any other may be effected ; in short, how the 

 process termed matastasis operates. 



THE CURE, "THAT IS THE QUESTION." 



The various stages and degrees of development of laminitis 

 are known by the terms early and late, congestive and inflam- 

 matory; and although the latter term is objectionable as ap- 

 plied to all morbid conditions of the laminae, it will be of in- 

 finitely more importance than discussing the propriety of the 

 term, to show how the local causes, proximate and remote, that 

 produce this diseased condition can be effectually counter- 

 acted, the morbid conditions reversed, and the cure effected in 

 the shortest space of time, and with the least possible loss of 

 the animal's services, no matter what stage of congestion, inflam- 

 mation, or disconnection of the laminal attachments may have 

 been reached. 



OCTOGENARIAN VETERINARIANS. 



I am conscious that I am now stating views which are not in 

 accord with those of all veterinary writers who have written 

 hitherto upon this subject, and that my statements will excite 

 sundry incredulous shrugs of the shoulders, a dubious expres- 

 sion of the lips, or a skeptical elevation of the eye-brows, and 

 perhaps all of these together, on the part of some of our octo- 



