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to remove it as the consequence of disease, would be entirely 

 inapplicable in a case where it arose from distortion ; wbile 

 those means which seemed best adapted for a case of distor- 

 tion Avould, probably, prove altogether inefficacious in one of 

 mechanical obstruction. In fine, any remedy we may possess 

 can only be suited to one description of disease : the art of 

 cure consisting rather in the adaptation of the remedy than in 

 the knowledge of it. The only pretensions we, as men of 

 reason and science, can set up towards a cure, are such as 

 are founded on the understanding we may obtain of the 

 immediate cause of the roaring: all other boastings are down- 

 right quackery, and, worse than quackery, imposition. 



I introduce what follows in this place for the double 

 purpose of showing to what extent the public may be gulled 

 by empirics, and what improvements our art has made, even 

 within these very few years past. Clater, whose works 

 surpass those of White by half-a-score of editions — ergo, 

 according to his own account, just by so much par excel- 

 lence — " The rapid sale of twenty-three large impressions of 

 this work has established its character upon the surest foun- 

 dation^^ — these are his words — Clater, I repeat, in ^ Every 

 Man his own Farrier,^ 24th edit., recommends for the " Cure 

 of Roaring" a few aniseeds and caraway seeds, and a little 

 Dover's powder, mixed with the balsam of sulphur and the 

 yolk of an egg ! — altogether about as effectual as White's 

 quills, ammoniac, and aniseeds must prove in broken wind. 

 And yet these are two veterinary works which, for the best 

 part of the last half century, have engrossed the attention of 

 the British public ! Proh pudor! 



With a view of showing the different plans of treatment 

 apart from each other, and of making it intelligible in what 

 kinds of roaring they are respectively applicable, I shall 

 suppose cases of the description that are most tikely to come 

 before us, and affix to each of them the proper treatment. 



Treatment of roaring, the accompaniment or conse- 

 quence OF inflammation. — Should the roaring be recent, 

 and the horse liave been lately, or be still, labouring under 

 any inflummator}' affection of the air passages — laiyngitis, 



