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ON THE CAUSE OF ROARING. 
thereon were greatly increased, so far from diminishing the appli¬ 
cants, I am certain the reverse would prevail; and the more the 
estimation in which the public would hold them, because it would 
bring men of better education and of higher moral cultivation than 
the “ cheap and nasty” system: it would keep out the idle, the 
profligate, who now resort too often to the veterinary profession as 
a dernier resort. Compare the results of the first period after the 
establishment of the Veterinary College, and the last since the 
granting of the Charter, with the middle period, and how strikingly 
this is shewn, when even a few short weeks’ irregular attendance 
was considered sufficient for the study of the art. Where are all 
who have emanated from the schools armed with a document pur¬ 
porting to bear testimony to their fitness 1 Echo answers, Where. 
Nor need we wonder that the schools themselves were and are 
still thought lightly of, when such things were allowed to have 
existence. 
I am, Mr. Editor, your’s obediently, 
Arthur Cherry. 
Dec. 5, 1848. 
DIMINUTION OF AREAS OF THE OSSEOUS NASAL 
FOSSJE FREQUENTLY THE CAUSE OF ROARING. 
By James Turner, M.R.C.V.S., Regent-street , London. 
Dear Mr. Editor,—I BEG leave to recall your attention, toge¬ 
ther with the profession generally, to a paper of mine published 
in The VETERINARIAN as long back as the year 1837, March 
Number, under the heading “ New Views regarding Roaring,” 
wherein I flattered myself I had opened a new light into the nature 
of that irremediable and prevailing malady among horses in this 
country. The subject matter occupied an entire evening in debate 
of the Veterinary Medical Association within the walls of the 
Royal Veterinary College of London, numerously attended by 
practitioners of note, both from town and country, and I was also 
present to defend my paper. 
It unfortunately happened that the late Mr. John Field (whose 
memory we all revere) summed up by unequivocally stating that 
the abnormal structure to which I alluded had little or nothing to 
do with the general cause of roaring— that it was merely a solitary 
case. This dictum from so high a quarter had a withering effect 
at the time upon my embryo discovery, and consequently very 
