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of periosteum; the turbinated bones were a soft pulpy 
mass. 
The brain seemed softened, and there was a quantity of 
fluid at its base and increased vascularity of its surface. 
The tumour weighed about four pounds, and was of a carti¬ 
laginous nature, part of it being so hard that it could not be 
cut with a knife. 
I may state that the mare was seven years old, and was of 
the Clydesdale breed. 
I have sent you these remarks on the above case as I 
consider it rather unusual. I should feel obliged if you could 
find space for it in the Veterinarimi. 
THE TREATMENT OF LAMINITIS. 
By George Fleming, Royal Engineers. 
The readers of the Veterinarian must, by this time, be 
getting heartily tired of the discussion as to the advantages 
or disadvantages of “ stout ” shoes in laminitis, acute or 
chronic; and if I am again constrained to appear before 
them to notice certain remarks in last month’s issue of 
the journal, I can only plead, in extenuation of the intrusion, 
that I do so with extreme reluctance, and only with the 
intention of vindicating some opinions I have already ad¬ 
vanced, and which have been assailed by Mr. Broad. 
Before doing so, however, I may be permitted to state that I 
have no recollection of doing Mr. Broad an injustice in making 
it appear that his plan is to cut the sole and frogs of weak feet. 
The statement, as he conclusively shows, is his own, and first 
appeared in the Field in the month of January, if I remember 
aright. He there writes to the effect that weak soles and large 
frogs require cutting, and if this was a mistake the error cer¬ 
tainly remained uncorrected by him. Though a strange state¬ 
ment to make, and one totally at variance with common sense 
and daily experience, and, though it was put forth in opposition 
to certain opinions I had published in that paper, 1 did not 
think it necessary to expose its absurdity. The same state¬ 
ment was repeated in the Veterinarian, and would perhaps 
have remained unmodified had it not been referred to by me. 
Mr. Broad can scarcely have read my remarks aright in 
reference to the use of heavy shoes. I said that the applica¬ 
tion of heavy masses of iron to horses’ feet is a fallacy which 
