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symptoms of pneumonia, for which I treated him ; the pulse 
warranting me to abstract blood, I did so cautiously. Metas- 
tasis of the disease took place ; it fell into the two fore-feet, fyc” 
Mr. Gloag, V.S., 1 1th Hussars, relates a case in the Veteri- 
narian for January, 185 1, in which laminitis followed abortion. 
The mare, 4 years old, was one recently purchased for the 
regiment in the north, whom Mr. G. suspected at the time 
to be in foal. She joined on the 15th of November, and on 
the 2d of December was seized with pain like colic, but 
which proved to be labour pains, and which terminated in 
the abortion of a foetus. For a couple of days the mare went 
on “ remarkably well,” but on the 4th of December, in the 
evening, was suddenly seized with pain of another character, 
shifting about, and panting, &c., which turned out to be 
laminitis “of the most violent description.” 
At the time of the existence of the London Veterinary 
Medical Society, at an especial meeting on the 19 th of March, 
1836 (of which an account will be found in vol. IX of the 
Veterinarian), a discussion took place on this very point, on 
which occasion a Mr. Fagan (to whom the meeting was 
specially granted) introduced a paper “on the Diseases inci- 
dental to the horse’s foot,” abounding,it was said, “with sound, 
practical, and useful information ;” wherein Mr. Fagan stated 
that “ this affection (laminitis) he had witnessed as a very 
common sequela of attacks of the lungs; when, from long 
standing, the feet have increased vascular action set up in 
them, and not infrequently it constitutes true metastasis.” 
A member doubted the instance of true metastasis in the 
horse. He would rather say that the laminae, from being 
kept too long on the stretch, became themselves the subject 
of disease, than that it was the transference of it from the 
lungs to the feet. 
Many interesting cases of laminitis following influenza were 
related by the members, &c. 
PROCEEDINGS OE COUNCIL OE THE ROYAL COLLEGE OE 
VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
A Special Meeting of the Council of the Royal College 
of Veterinary Surgeons was held at the Freemasons’ Tavern, 
on Wednesday, December 14th, 1853, to receive the Report of 
the House Committee, and to make arrangements in accord- 
ance therewith. 
Present: — The President, Messrs. Braby, Ernes, 
Henderson, Peach, Silvester, and the Secretary. 
The President in the Chair. 
