LANCASHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 299 
1 now beg to call your attention to the treatment employed by 
Mr. Broad, of Bath, in cases of acute laminitis. He brought this 
subject before the meeting of the West of England Association on 
the 25th ult. at Bristol. He does not bleed his patients, nor 
foment nor poultice the feet, neither does he cast them nor sling 
them; he simply takes off the shoes, and substitutes for them bar 
shoes made very thick at the toe, say three quarters of an inch, and 
thinned gradually to the heels—a number of specimens I here 
exhibit, the heels and bar being about as thick as an halfpenny, the 
extreme edge taken off. He then gives a cathartic dose, compels 
the horse to walk,badly enough and slowly enough at first, as you may 
readily conceive ; but the horse soon improves, and then you may keep 
him at it for hours together ; you may let the horse have an hour or 
two’s rest, and then out again for hours together. Contrary to all 
expectation, the pain and suffering, heat of the feet and throbbing 
of the arteries subside, and in three or four days the animal can 
walk free from pain. In two or three weeks, under this treatment, 
the horse is as sound as ever, and fit for anv kind of work. It is 
said this plan of treatment is invariably successful; it was corrobo¬ 
rated by the president, by several other practitioners who had put 
it to the test, and bv several letters from others. Mr. Broad had 
brought horses which had suffered from laminitis to the place of 
meeting for us to see; one horse had had both coffin bones exposed 
at the sole. Nevertheless, they were now going sound, and their 
feet were not at all deformed ; it was said that in no case yet has 
this method failed ; it is a novel means of treatment, but the results 
are startling ; and, as I said there, we have no right to condemn this 
system until we have tried it and proved it to be ineffectual. We 
are bound, to receive it, since Mr. Broad’s statements are sub¬ 
stantiated by the living cases before us, and by numbers of successful 
cases submitted to this treatment by Mr. Lawson and Mr. T. Taylor, 
of Manchester. Mr. Broad recommends strong shoes in all weak 
feet, with the view of warding off concussion. Upon this same 
principle I may remind you, if an anvil be placed upon your chest, 
men may strike with sledge hammers with all their might upon the 
anvil, without hurting you in the least, the thickness and weight of 
the anvil breaking the concussion. 
Operation for Canker, 
This operation, which has been in use in England for some four or 
five years, was first recommended in these parts by Mr. John Lawson, 
Jun., who had seen it done and done it himself at Alfort College in 
France. He has performed the operation for me upon several of 
mv cases; and such has been the success which has attended his 
treatment, that I have myself had recourse to it in nineteen or twenty 
cases during the last five years. Of these instances three only were 
unsuccessful, the others recovered, and went to work again in from 
twenty-one days to three months, usually about six weeks to two 
months afterwards. Only one case had a relapse ; I attribute this to 
having put him to work too soon. There are several points of great 
