MR. BROAD IN REPLY TO MR. FLEMING. 645 
sion, and on the return journey forty miles per day for five 
days not over hard pavement ”). There certainly was not 
any cruelty in that feat, for Mr. and Mrs. Fleming are such 
nice little weights that they were not likely to injure their 
horses. 
Mr. Fleming has no right to express doubts as to the 
benefit derived from the use of my shoe in laminitis, after 
the evidence which has been adduced in the Veterinarimi, 
and I could produce much more. I presume the case of reco¬ 
very of chronic laminitis to which Mr. Fleming refers is the 
one which he has before alluded to as having been under his 
treatment for twelve months. In my letter in July Veteri¬ 
narian I stated that I had treated a cob belonging to Colonel 
Blathwayte without the use of any shoes; at the time I 
wrote I was under the impression that the cob had recovered. 
A few days afterwards I received a message stating that he 
was much worse, which I found to be the case, and deemed 
it necessary to put on my special shoes, which relieved him 
at once, without adopting any other treatment; he can now 
trot and gallop well, as I have had an opportunity of seeing 
him several times since. Although Mr. Fleming draws com¬ 
parisons between his plan of treating laminitis with the use 
of felt pads and mine with the special shoes, still he must 
admit that at present I have the advantage of him in corro¬ 
borative proof. 
He also again states that, within a few weeks, more cases 
have fallen into his hands than, perhaps, I have seen in as 
many years. Well, I am quite content to leave that question 
to the opinion of the profession. Mr. Fleming states that the case 
of recovery alluded to in the letters forwarded to him was not 
a very reliable one, inasmuch as the case was reported by a 
groom a few days after the shoes had been applied. 
Has Mr. Fleming forgotten the letter he sent me, stating 
that the case of laminitis to which the letters referred was a 
very satisfactory one ? How does he reconcile his two opposite 
statements ? The letters were written by an honourable, the 
veterinary surgeon’s name was given, and I stated myself 
that the pony was doing its ordinary work quite free from 
lameness—as well as before the attack occurred. Mr. 
Fleming states that he ought to have a description of the 
unsuccessful trials. I am not in a position to comply with 
that request, as I have not received any. I have only inferred 
from letters received that some of the cases have not gone on 
so well as they ought to have done. 1 stated in my paper 
published in January Veterinarian that the pathology of the 
disease termed laminitis was congestion of the vessels of the 
