WILLIAMSON BRYDEN. 
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but dropped the matter as my contention did not appear to 
be understood. I beg to submit, therefore, that I am some¬ 
what disappointed to find Prof. MacQueen still practically 
taking the side I then opposed: Vide American Veter¬ 
inary Review, page 373, November, 1881 ; 479, January, 
1882; 531, February, 1882; 572, 573, 575, 577, March, 1882. 
In this he was not only sustained, but endorsed and applauded 
by all present at the meeting where his article was read and 
discussed. 
Judging from my own practical experiences with true 
quittor, I beg your permission, and also Prof. MacQueen’s, to 
state that I regret the fact that the confusing of quittor and a 
number of other diseases, thought to resemble it, has been 
most unfortunate, some of them being the result of accidental 
and other injuries, the aetiology and therapeutics of which 
are entirely different from one another. This confusion seems 
largely to prevail in Europe as well as in America. Pathology 
regarded in this general way loses its significance, and never 
can lead to anything but confusion of the student, and illogi¬ 
cal treatment of the patient; never ! to that professional pro¬ 
gress demanded by earnest friends of the veterinary surgeon, 
who dare to think for themselves. From the evidence before 
us, the veterinary practice in this respect in 1893, is little, if 
any, in advance of the days of Markham and Solle)^sel. 
Prof. Gamgee in his “ Diseases of our Domestic Animals,’’ 
seems to me to have had a truer conception of the aetiology 
of quittor than any of the veterinary authors I have chanced 
to read so far. 
In presuming to take the positive stand I do with refer¬ 
ence to what I have (rightly or wrongty) called the phvsio- 
pathological class of diseases of the horse’s feet, legs, and 
other parts I beg to explain, especially to practitioners like 
myself, who have only received the ordinary veterinary edu¬ 
cation of some twenty-five years ago, that although I may 
not describe the many interesting phenomena and adverse 
tissue changes taking place within a part like the hoof, in the 
limb, and in the “horny box ” itself, with the exactness of a 
trained pathologist, I can state in all candor, however, that 
