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NORTH OF SCOTLAND VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
This association held its annual meeting in the Mechanics’ Hall 
Buildings, Aberdeen, on Saturday, 28th January, when eighteen 
members were present. In the absence of Mr. Dewar, President, 
the Vice-President took the chair. 
The minutes of last meeting having been read, the Treasurer sub- 
mitted his financial statement for the past year, which showed a 
very favorable balance to the credit of the association. 
The following members were elected office-bearers for the ensuing 
year: — Mr. Hay, Ellon, President ; Mr. Cassie, Newmachar, Vice- 
President ; Mr. Mellis, Inverurie, Secretary ; Mr. Thomson, Aber- 
deen, Treasurer. Council — Messrs. Keith, Strichen ; Neil Barron, 
TurritF ; Deuchars, Cruden ; Masson, Kintore ; Duncan, Methlie ; 
Symon, Forgue ; Balfour, Montrose ; Fowlie, Faichfield ; and 
Robbie, Banchory-Ternan. 
The President, as arranged at last meeting, opened the discussion 
on the nature and treatment of laminitis, as recommended by Mr. 
T. D. Broad, of Bath, by reading extracts of an essay which that 
gentleman had submitted to the West of England Veterinary Medical 
Association, and which was reported in the January number of the 
Veterinarian for 1869. 
A letter to the Secretary from Mr. Broad, explanatory of the 
shoes which had been found so eminently successful in the treat- 
ment of laminitis, as also a specimen set which had been kindly 
forwarded, were submitted to the meeting. A very interesting dis- 
cussion followed. 
Mr. Neil Barron, Turriff, said that he was glad to be able, in 
some measure, to bear favorable testimony of the mode of treat- 
ment as recommended by Mr. Broad. He had applied shoes, some- 
thing similar to the pattern before them, to a mare whose feet were 
down in the soles and corrugated in the walls and elongated in the 
toes, like those of a donkey ; and in less than six months one would 
not have known that ever she had been affected with laminitis. He 
had not tried Mr. Broad’s system in the acute stage of the disease. 
Mr. Balfour , Montrose, had tried Mr. Broad’s plan of shoeing on 
several horses with feet similar to those described by Mr. Barron, 
but had never seen any special benefit to result from their applica- 
tion, and he was very sceptical as to their remedial agency in any 
stage of the disease. 
Mr. Cassie admitted that he had never tried the new mode of 
treatment, but was of the opinion that if the shoes could be applied 
and the animal kept moving, in an acute case, before it passed the 
congestive stage, more serious results might be prevented ; but 
should the disease pass beyond the congestive stage, movement for 
some time, with Mr. Broad’s or any other form of shoes, would, 
in his opinion, be against a cure ; inasmuch as it w r ould tend to effect a 
separation of the hoofs from the parts to which they were attached. 
