34 CLINICAL VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 



This operation always gave bad results. 



Of the various methods suggested, arytsenoidectomy not only causes 

 the fewest possible complications, but also gives the greatest number 

 cf lasting successes. 



Like all bold operations, like all surgical innovations directed 

 against diseases previously considered incurable, arytsenoidectomy has 

 its drawbacks and dangers ; but the fact remains, and cannot be gain- 

 said, that it renders useful for various kinds of work a number of 

 roarers otherwise condemned to tracheotomy. 



Like other methods of treatment, it must not be expected to effect 

 too much, and those persons are certainly over-exacting who, after 

 having all their lives proclaimed the absolute incurability of chronic 

 laryngeal roaring, reproach it for its uncertainty and for its infrequent 

 success, as if, instead of advancing a little even by the process of grop- 

 ing one's way, it were preferable to stand still. 



It is, I feel sure, superfluous to labour the point, and I conclude by 

 repeating with Lanzilotti : 



" E indubitato die iiiolti cavalli sono guariti ! " 

 [Undoubtedly many horses are cured.] 



