ON KOARING. 
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cences from Nimrod are at once so characteristic and rich in truth 
and humour, that I cannot forbear inserting them here. I never 
purchased but two roarers, and they cured me of going to that 
market again. One nearly broke my neck at a fence, having 
entirely lost all his powers in the space of five fields; the other I 
christened ‘ the Bull,’ for he could have been heard half-a-mile off 
if he got into deep ground. Notwithstanding this, I have seen 
two brilliant hunters that were roarers.” 
Mares seldom become Roarers, at least, in comparison 
with horses. This is a fact, I believe, too notorious among men of 
horse experience to admit of doubt; though it is one for which it 
appears difficult, if not impossible, to assign any satisfactory rea¬ 
son. However, so stands the fact. 
Roaring in Man. —Of this, one instance only has come to my 
knowledge. 1 was out shooting one day with two friends, one of 
whom was quite a lad; when, as I was walking by the side of the 
other up a hill, I suddenly heard such a whistling behind me, 
that I sprang round with alarm, thinking there was a roaring, or 
rather a whistling, horse gallopping close at my heels. My fright 
subsided, but surprise and curiosity took its place at finding it 
was my young friend who was making all this noise in his efforts 
in climbing the hill. On laughing and telling him he was “ a 
regular whistler,” he informed me he had, not long before, been 
the subject of a severe bronchitis. 
Pathology of Roaring. —This includes the investigation of 
the morbid and other causes on which the existence of roaring 
depends; and it is a part of our subject replete with interest, see¬ 
ing that it is upon this knowledge that all our hopes and expecta¬ 
tions of cure must be erected. Unless we can arrive at a thorough 
knowledge of the cause of the evil, we shall deceive both our¬ 
selves and our employers in attempts to remove it. To hear 
people talk about the seat and the cause of roaring, one would 
suppose that both might be included between the finger and 
thumb, and that it was either too mysterious ever to be developed, 
or was universally in one place. They are such unscientific and 
narrow views as this that have led people to talk about the cure 
of roaring, as if some remedy were to be discovered at once to re¬ 
move the evil. Such discourse may impose upon our employers; 
but, surely, among ourselves, if we aspire to be thought men of 
science, it must be disgusting in the extreme. Unless what I am 
going to relate is untrue, it must be evident enough, even to 
unprofessional minds, that the causes of roaring are many and 
various, and that, consequently, the remedies cannot but be some- 
tliiiig like proportionate in number, and oftentimes extremely 
dissimilar. 
