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MR. BROAD’S SHOE FOR LAMINITIS. 
By Professor Williams, Edinburgh. 
If those who write so mueh against Mr. Broad’s shoe for 
laminitis would only try its utility, they would find out that 
its applieation is followed by satisfactory results. It allows 
the patient to throw his weight away from the toe, i. e. upon 
the heel, with the greatest ease and least possible amount of 
muscular action, and by doing so it removes the weight of 
the body from the part which is most intensely inflamed. I am 
not going to enter into any controversy, but in laminitis, both 
acute and chronic, and in ringbone, the shoe is invaluable, 
and the profession is indebted to Mr. Broad for the honest 
and straightforward manner in which he has laid his opinions 
before its members. 
MR. BROAD’S TREATMENT OF LAMINITIS. 
By Henry Lawrence, Jun., M.R.C.V.S., Romford, Essex. 
I BEG to state that I have adopted Mr. Broad’s plan of 
treating laminitis for more than five years without a failure, 
during which time I have treated many cases, both acute and 
chronic, some of which were considered by their owners to 
be incurable, yet within a month they were doing their 
ordinary work free from lameness. I have lately had a very 
acute case occurring in a mare after foaling, which quite re¬ 
covered in about a week. In reference to the question of 
stout shoes for flat, weak, or tender-footed horses wmrking 
on paved streets or hard roads, my experience teaches me 
that the advantages of the stout shoes are very great, and 
the theory I have always understood to be that they lessened 
the jarring action conveyed to the foot. Perhaps some 
member who has studied mechanical philosophy will give us 
a more scientific definition. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN DERBYSHIRE. 
By George Poyser, M.R.C.V.S., Ashbourne. 
I FEEL it my duty to report to you, for the information of 
those who have power to legislate upon the subject, that 
