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specimens as the general cause of roaring, when, in truth, such 
are only the occasional cause. 
Gentlemen, I shall take leave to put my meaning- in this way : 
suppose a Paul Pry student, one who wisely disdains to take 
any doctrine as granted, although scholastic, to select a roarer at 
Smithfield or elsewhere, so bad that he might hear him only in 
the exertion of a very slow pace, he would find on dissection 
these morbid appearances in the throat or windpipe, correspond- 
ent with suffocation. Now these are comparatively solitary cases 
in veterinary practice ; but the class of roarers with which the 
practising veterinary surgeon comes in contact perpetually, as 
touching his soundness, is the gay, showy, specious-looking 
animal, generally in top condition, that demands the exercise of 
all the veterinarian’s skill and energies to enable him boldly to de- 
clare between the buyer and seller; that the said fine horse, valued 
at 120 guineas is a roarer , and, therefore, it is questionable if he 
be worth the odd twenty pounds. Now, gentlemen, these slight 
cases of the disease abound ; and I think I have shewn enough 
to prove, that their seat is principally in the head — in fact, 
merely in the face. 
ft will therefore be incumbent upon us in future, instead of 
indiscriminately condemning all confirmed roarers as incurable, as 
they have done at this College and every other college for the 
last forty years, to first institute an inquiry, that is, a most 
scrutinizing examination, with the hope of finding one or both 
of the nasal fossae obstructed. These passages should be sounded 
by probes, bougies, &c. 
Gentlemen, the remainder of my observations you must please 
to regard as merely speculative. Had we the grey horse here now 
alive, the first indication of cure would be the attempt of gradual 
dilatation of the passage, periodically , by the introduction of the 
best contrived elastic bougies. Secondly, their retention, secured 
in the passage, if possible, and of course by the most coaxing 
and gentle method Thirdly, It appears an inviting case for tre- 
panning, and, perhaps, a partial excision of the obstructing bone. 
My brother, Mr. Thomas Turner, of Croydon, has been in the 
habit for years of blistering the nose and face of all his cases of 
obstinate or protracted catarrh ; but he will not assert that he 
was aware the air-passage of the face was the seat of roaring. 
Now, gentlemen, this is open to you all ; and I. shrewdly sus- 
pect, that there is a Paul Pry or two among you, who will run 
away with the cure ; and I pledge my word not to grudge that 
success, if you will only kindly remember and acknowledge, that 
I first ran away with the scent , and thereby led you on to the 
happy consummation of vanquishing the enemy. 
