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TREATMENT OF LAMINITIS. 
By J. Vickers Blake. 
The treatment of laminitis upon Mr. Broad^s principle I 
have found most successful. I have seen five cases where 
his plan was carried out thoroughly_, all of which recovered 
with great rapidity, and no deformity of the feet ensued, I 
treated two cases without putting shoes on; both animals 
recovered, and in six days returned to their work, which they 
continued to perform. 
[We understood that the heavy shoes are an absolutely 
essential, if not principal, part of Mr. Broad^s system.— Eds.] 
Pathological Contributions. 
THE CATTLE PLAGUE. 
This disease still lurks in Lower Austria, which would 
seem to prove that the outbreak has been more severe than 
was at first admitted, Transylvania is said again to be free ; 
but Hungary remains infected to a very considerable extent. 
The disease also prevails extensively in Roumania. The 
Prussian Reichstag has passed a law consolidating the various 
regulations of the different states forming the North German 
Confederation, to enable uniform and concentrated action to 
be promptly taken in the event of the disease being intro¬ 
duced from any of the surrounding countries. The want of 
a measure of this kind is said to have been the cause of the 
disease not being more quickly exterminated from Rhenish 
Bavaria in 1867. Slaughter and compensation are the leading 
provisions of the Act; but in no case will compensation be 
granted should an animal succumb to the disease within ten 
days of its introduction into the country. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
Pleuro-pneumonia still continues to spread in the London 
dairies. It also prevails to a serious extent in many parts of 
