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Roaring in Horses. 



our veterinary officers can command, and which he appears 

 to have availed himself of to excellent effect, he being for 

 many years attached to the Remount Depot in Caen. 

 During two years — 1879, 1880— he admitted to his in- 

 firmary 754 horses for various diseases belonging to the 

 classes I have named, and noted their subsequent medical 

 history. The result was as follows : 



It is remarked that these horses were from three to five 

 years of age, and that the maladies were due to climatic 

 influence, all the animals being under the coup of the 

 Strangles diathesis (diathese gourmeuse), the cases of 

 chronic bronchitis being observed in horses recovering 

 from that affection. The Roaring was not persistent in 

 every case, as it sometimes disappeared after several 

 months ; but when it remained after complete convalescence, 

 it had all the characteristics of Chronic Roaring:. 



