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not informed^ and I consequently believe that the hesitation 
and doubt with which I receive the statement will be shared 
by others besides myself, as I do also that they will join me 
in the belief which, having carefully examined the shoe 
itself, and also the mode of its application, I now express 
without either doubt or hesitation, namely, that the system 
of shoeing, as at present practised in this country, is in no 
danger v/hatever of being displaced by the introduction of 
the Goodenough system. 
TREATMENT OF LAMINITIS. . 
By H. Flower, M.R.C.V.S., Derby. 
I wLvs much interested in the perusal in last month^s 
Vaterlnarian of Mr. Broad^s paper on Laminitis, read by him 
before the members of the West of England Veterinary 
Medical Association. 
It is not surprising that sceptical opinions should have 
been expressed by some of those present respeeting the mode 
of treatment reeommended, recollecting, as I well do, my own 
views of the subject when I first read Mr. Broad^s statements 
some two or three years ago in the Veterinarian. 
I felt disposed to pooh-pooh the idea, but as I have always 
endeavoured to keep my mind open to convietion, the more I 
thought about it the more I became convinced that both in 
theory and practice he was correct j and as to my mind one 
fact is worth a thousand theories, and knowing that truth is 
sometimes stranger than fiction, I determined to test its 
value the first opportunity, wdiich oceurred shortly after, and 
the result was most satisfactory, as the subject, a beautiful 
roan pony, is now doing any amount of work, while before 
he was perfectly useless. Since that time I have treated 
other cases in a similar manner with like results; and my 
adviee to those who doubt is to try it, and they will then 
beeome convinced of its value. For my own part I feel indi¬ 
vidually indebted to Mr. Broad for giving publicity to so 
valuable a mode of treatment. 
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