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not think that I have at all over-estimated the 

 extreme malignity of the disease. Every stitch of 

 clothing, rug, brush, bucket, sponge— in fact, every 

 article which has been used for or near to a 

 glandered horse— should be burnt, as, I may also 

 add, the very clothing of the groom who attended 

 upon the horse. Attendance upon a glandered 

 horse is fraught with extreme risk, and should a 

 man unhappily contract it, there is little or no 

 hope of saving him from a painful and horrible 

 death. I have not, therefore, I think, over- 

 estimated its danger. 



I would impress upon the reader that what is 

 called ' roaring ' and what is termed < broken-wind ' 

 are not one and the same thing, although number- 

 less people cannot, apparently, distinguish between 

 them. 



Eoaring is caused by paralysis of the cords of 

 the throat. The nerve being paralyzed, the muscle 

 is useless, and, ceasing to act, becomes an impedi- 

 ment, and is therefore incapable of expansion and 

 contraction. The noise is produced during the 

 process of inhalation, and not that of exhalation. 

 The muscle gets in the way, as it were. The 

 disease increases as time goes on. 



: Whistling ' is none other than incipient roaring. 



All kinds of treatment have been tried from time 



