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LAMINITIS. 
By R. H. Dyer, M.R.C.V.S. 
The January number of your Journal reports the proceed¬ 
ings of the West of England Veterinary Medical Association, 
in which will he found an essay on laminitis from the pen of 
Mr. Broad. I do not know that I should have taken 
any notice of this essay after perusing it, had I not been 
challenged to commence an action against the author. What 
was written by me, and reported in the May number of the 
Veterinarian^ was written with the conviction of truth; and 
I am still of the same opinion, that any person being guilty 
of performing such acts of cruelty as are found recommended 
in the work of Markham,” should be prosecuted by the 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. This I 
declare simply from the fact that the advice contained in 
that book, whether it points to laminitis or any other disease, 
is absurd in the most superlative degree, and, further, that 
laminitis, amongst other maladies, can be treated in a more 
humane, reasonable, and scientific manner. I do not feel 
disposed to enter the lists with Mr. Broad in the discussion 
so long before the members of the profession, as an able ad¬ 
vocate has been found in Mr. Fleming, and it is more than 
probable enough has been said upon tbe subject, as it does 
not appear that the one advocate can convince the other of his 
error, if either has committed one. Knowing Mr. Broad’s 
views in reference to the treatment of laminitis, I am pre¬ 
pared to read his observations. I do think, however, his re¬ 
marks in reference to my ‘^sarcastic criticism,” as he is 
pleased to term them, of Markham’s masterpiece, savour 
somewhat of a feeling I am unwilling to name. 
MR. BROAD IN REPLY TO MR. FLEMING. 
With your kind permission I will make a few remarks on 
the Charlier shoe, at the same time a few’^ in reply to Mr. 
Fleming on stout shoes, such as are daily put on in the 
Loudon forges. I must say I am somewhat surprised to find 
that Mr. Fleming has so garbled and misrepresented my 
statements, for during tbe discussion I have said nothing that 
will warrant him turning my stout shoes into ‘‘ heavy, 
clumsy clogs, unwieldly, ponderous, awkward, massive lumps 
