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THE VETERINARIAN, FEBRUARY 1, 1854. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
In the last Number of the ‘ Racing Calendar a Member of the Jockey 
Club states , “ that he will give a Reward of £100 to any Veterinary Surgeon 
who may discover an effectual remedy for the complaint of roaring , now so 
prevalent amongst Race-Horses.” The reward to be paid on satisfactory proof 
of the efficacy of the remedy. 
The offer of a “ nobleman” on the turf, to present any 
person with £100 who should discover a remedy for roaring, 
puts us in mind of a certain wealthy citizen of our acquaint- 
ance, who, on the occasion of his being seized with indispo- 
sition — a rare incident with him — addressed his apothecary, 
on his first visit, as follows : “Now, doctor, I feel quite as- 
sured that it is in your power either to make me well at once, 
or to keep me on your list for an indefinite length of time ; 
therefore, I tell you, at the offset of my illness, if you will 
cure me by a single dose of medicine, I will present you 
with twenty pounds Roaring being rather a generic name 
for disease than a specific one, had the nobleman in question 
specified the nature or kind of roaring which he was so de- 
sirous of curing, or better still, of preventing , it is probable 
his notice might have set professional men to work on the 
matter, and, possibly, the object in view might have been 
attained. 
There is no part of the organism of the horse more liable 
to derangement than the membrane lining the air-passages ; 
neither is there any in which, when once it becomes diseased, 
disease is apt to rage in with more intensity, or endure for 
a greater length of time. Great reason for apprehension 
therefore needs arise in the mind of the owner of the subject 
of it — colt or filly just blooming into horsehood — lest the 
consequences of the inflammation be such as to entail tem- 
porary or permanent roaring. Catarrh, strangles, bronchitis, 
especially in the epidemic or influenzal form, are the dis- 
