52 WEST OF ENGLAND VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and con¬ 
firmed, Mr. T. Aubrey, of Salisbury, was unanimously appointed a 
Vice-President in place of Mr. Cornelius (dsceased); Messrs. Warne 
Paddall and James Broad were elected Auditors for the ensuing 
year; Messrs. Spooner, of Southampton, J. C. Broad, of London, 
and J. Goodwin, of Bath, were unanimously elected Honorary 
Associates of the society. 
It was resolved that the aforesaid letter of condolence be forwarded. 
Letters of apology for non-attendance were received from Profes¬ 
sor Spooner, Messrs. Samson, Wheatley, Gregory, Bryer, Vincent, 
Bond, Wadlaw, Blunson, Cade, Ford, and Dr. Budd, of Clifton. 
Communications complimentary to the essayist and the Associa¬ 
tion generally were read from many other influential members of the 
profession. 
Mr. T. D. Broad then proceeded with his Essay on— 
THE NATURE AND TREATMENT OF LAMINITIS. 
Laminitis is a disease which appears to very imperfectly under¬ 
stood by the profession generally. I have examined all or nearly 
all published writings upon the subject, and believe that there is not 
another disease upon which there is such a diversity of opinions, 
in proof of which I refer to a speech made at a discussion on 
laminitis at a meeting of the Liverpool Veterinary Medical 
Association, in February, 1865, by Mr. P. Taylor, who stated that 
he considered it a slur on the veterinary profession that a disease 
of such importance as the one under discussion should not have 
been thoroughly investigated, and brought under some uniform rules 
of treatment before this time. We were now, he said, in the middle of 
the nineteenth century, and each person seemed to have his own ideas 
of its nature, and each upheld his own mode of treatment, but he 
hoped that better days had dawned for the profession, and that each 
and everv member of these associations would exert himself to find 
out the true nature of this and other formidable diseases, by which 
means alone we could have them more under control, and apply our¬ 
selves to their treatment with a greater certainty of success. After 
such remarks as these I am induced to lay before the profession my 
views on the subject, with the mode of treatment which I have 
practised with uniform success for the last ten years, during which 
time I have not lost a case. The result of the treatment of lami¬ 
nitis, I look upon as being more satisfactory than that of any other 
serious disease with which I am acquainted. If treated early, in the 
majority of cases the horse will be able to resume work in from 
three to ten days, without any observable alteration of the structure 
of the feet. When reading the various articles in the Vete¬ 
rinarian, I was astonished to find such singular notions enter¬ 
tained by eminent members of our profession in reference to the 
nature of the disease. Mr. Dyer wrote in the May number of the 
Veterinarian of 1866 a sarcastic criticism on an article, by Gervase 
Markham, whose work was published (11th edition) in 16/5, as 
