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of our art, continues vvofully to this day to deteriorate or incapa- 
citate great numbers of our best blood-horses. For the present I 
aspire only to a few clinical remarks upon a most interesting case, 
which I flatter myself may prove pertinent, and lead to a fresh 
train of inquiry as to the true seat of this formidable and very 
frequent source of unsoundness in horses. 
That the incurability of the roarer is a reproach to us, cannot, I 
think, be denied; but yet, in reality, it is less so than a hasty 
glance appears to warrant, because in nine cases out of ten the 
disorganization is the sequel of other diseases which, like acute 
inflammation of other organs or tissues, had their day, hour, or 
passing moment, at which they would have yielded to the hand of 
science, if vigorously applied ; realizing the happiest term in our 
medical nomenclature, — cure by resolution. 
Now that the active and persevering veterinarian of the pre- 
sent day prevents most of his inflammatory cases of the air pas- 
sages from terminating in roaring, I entertain not a shadow of 
doubt ; but that the vile practice of the old school of farriery con- 
tributed largely to all manner of terminations of inflammation 
except the salutary one, resolution, I am equally certain. 
But notwithstanding these odious comparisons between our 
clever selves and great progenitors, the intruder does occasionally 
rise up in judgment, even now-a-days, against the best of us. 
This fact the public too well know, and there is no mistaking his 
presence or denying him in the form of roarer, whistler, wheezer, 
high-blower, or grunter, too frequently reducing the magnificent 
weight-carrying hunter of £300 sterling value down to about 
£20, to drag an omnibus : and, alas ! a very few weeks will some- 
times suffice to accomplish this work of destruction. 
Now, gentlemen, it would be a piece of supererogation for me 
to attempt an elaborate description of this disease in all its varied 
forms, when such writers as Blaine, Percivall, Youatt, and others, 
have so ably promulgated all that is generally known upon the 
subject, and duly considering also the additional light which 
has been shed by our president, Mr. Sewell, through the illus- 
trations of his beautiful morbid specimens. I agree with these 
gentlemen in all they have detailed, and the morbid specimens 
speak for themselves ; but there is more to come out than has 
yet been told in books. 
Being for the most part an incurable disease, we have of late 
years not been unmindful of presenting to our employers these 
convincing testimonies in the form of anatomical preparations, to 
account for our inability to contend with the disease. I say, we 
have paraded these testimonies in our defence, such as that beau- 
tiful, flexible, and highly elastic apparatus, the larynx, degenc- 
