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THE PHARMACY ACT. 
Having seen in the Bristol Observer the outline of a paper 
on laminitisj which Mr. Broad liad read before the West of 
England Veterinary Association^ I put myself in communi¬ 
cation with that gentleman^ who very kindly answered all 
inquiries, and sent me a shoe of the pattern he was accus¬ 
tomed to use in these cases. ' I was not a little gratified to 
learn, also, that more than an average success had attended 
his mode of treatment; and hence I resolved that, on the 
first occasion which presented itself, I would give trial to the 
treatment, in order to test its results. 
It was not long before an opportunity offered, in four 
acute cases and in two chronic. The results, I may say, were 
perfectly satisfactory, especially in the acute cases, which 
were all severe. In addition to the other means employed, I 
administered repeated doses of fl. Tincture of Aconite, and 
also made use of enemas. 
For the present I content myself by merely recording 
these facts, in the hope that some other member of the pro¬ 
fession who may have had cases brought under his notice, 
and who has tested the treatment, will record his experience 
for the benefit of the profession. 
THE PHARMACY ACT. 
By Thomas Walley, M.R.C.V.S., West Derby Village, 
Liverpool. 
Allow me to correct a slight mistake wdiich has crept into 
the Inaugural ^Address of the President of the Lancashire 
Veterinary Medical Association, published in your March 
issue, p. 228. He there says—“ That according to the new 
Pharmacy Act, every person who was not upon the register of 
the Pharmaceutical Society before the passing of the Act in 
July, 186B, will have to undergo a modified examination, 
and produce certificates as to character,” &c. The following 
is the case—“ All persons who shall (at any time previous to 
the passing of this Act) have kept open shop for the sale and 
compounding of drugs shall, on making a declaration to the 
Registrar of the Pharmaceutical Society .that he has been in 
business as a chemist and druggist previous to the passing of 
the Act, accompanying the said declaration by a certificate 
signed by two qualified medical men, or two Justices of the 
Ih^ace, be entered on the Register of the Pharmaceutical 
