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to the side chains or straps, for a couple of hours, twice a-day, in 
such manner that his head may be kept continually elevated, and 
his nose projected forwards a la Russienne. This is also the best 
plan we can pursue in a case where the mischief has been occasion- 
ed by any injurious constraint of the head in breaking, bitting, or 
lunging the horse. 
I know of nothing more that can be done by way of treatment 
for roaring, unless we choose to try iodine : it ma)^ either be given 
internally or employed as an ointment, or used in both ways. I 
have not yet myself had an opportunity of making trial of it. 
Hopeless Cases. —As such, in general, may be regarded all 
cases of long duration, arise from what causes they may. Also 
such as there appears any reason to believe are hereditary, or de¬ 
pendent upon an original malformation of parts. Cases of distor- • 
tion are equally irremediable, when the distortion has existed so long 
as to destro}'" the original form and properties of parts, and in their 
place to have established fresh ones. Such can only be benefitted by 
The French Treatment, which consists in the performance 
of bronchotomy, or tracheotomy, as they more properly call it. 
They make a lage aperture, and use a proportionably large tube*, 
so constructed and adapted that the animal can not only freely 
breathe through it, but do his work, and even gallop, with it in his 
neck. In this manner very bad roarers have been known to have 
been kept quiet for two or three years, and at work all the time. 
STRAY PAPERS ON VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE, 
INCLUDING MEDICAL ETHICS. 
By Mr. Thomas Walton Mayer, F.>S^., Newcastle-under-Line. 
[Continued from p. 373, vol. xii.] 
The Student and Young Practitioner’s Right. 
What are the rules that should regulate our professional inter¬ 
course with each other ? 
If, gentlemen, it were possible that I could put this question to 
each of you separately, how many answers, think you, would be 
similar ] How many of you would be agreed as to the number and 
extent of the rules of conduct requisite for the well-being and re¬ 
gulation of our lives ] Simple as the question at first sight appears 
to be, and united as many may be upon most points connected 
* The tube I recommend will be found described in the 1st vol. of Hippo- 
pathology. It is sold by Long, 217, llolborn. 
