TREATMENT OF LAMINITIS. 
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Hoping that no one may be offended with me for making 
this attempt at placing the saddle upon the proper horse, 
sticking the feather into the proper bonnet, or twining the 
laurels round the proper head, I remain, &c. 
TREATMENT OF LAMINITIS. 
By T. D. Gregory, M.R.C.V.S., Bideford. 
The readers of the Veterinarian must be getting some¬ 
what weary, and the combatants Broad v. Fleming must 
have nearly exhausted their literary strength in the laminitic 
warfare that has been waging with such pertinacity for so 
many months in your pages; and, as far as I can see, neither 
has yet gone far in convincing the other that he is wrong. 
In obtruding myself upon your space, I assure you I have 
no wish to prolong this wordy warfare; hut having since 
Mr. Broad first introduced his somewhat novel mode of treat- 
ino[ laminitis to the members of the West of England Vete- 
rinary Medical Association, had many excellent opportunities 
of fairly putting his principles to the test of experience, the 
last two summers, from some cause, probably the great heat 
of the weather, having been more than usually prolific of 
acute and subacute laminitis. 
After all that has been written upon this subject, it would 
he, doubtless, too great an infliction upon the time of your 
readers were I to enumerate or individualise my cases; but 
I am happy to be enabled to say that my patients have, under 
the treatment recommended, made rapid and good recoveries. 
I have followed out as nearly as circumstances would admit 
the details of Mr. Broad’s treatment, and in spite of the cry 
of cruelty which has been set up, and which I repudiate, I 
have particularly persisted in exercise, and I have invariably 
found the pain lessened thereby, and each succeeding walk 
taken with less and less difficulty. My object and wishes 
in thus addressing you and your readers will be accomplished 
when I have discharged the duty—and I am sure it is a plea¬ 
surable one—of adding my testimony and thanks to Mr. 
Broad for first drawing attention to this most valuable, 
because most successful, mode of treating a disease,<ijwhich 
has heretofore not been satisfactory ; and I would cerS^jily 
advise those who from prejudice or otherwise have not tried 
it, to fairly, when opportunities offer, put it to the test, and I 
feel convinced the results will fully justify all that the author, 
^Ir. Broad, has advanced. 
