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REPORTS OF CASES. 
think that a good omen, as in the veterinary practice a dead 
horse travels about nine miles to a live horse’s one. 
SUCCESSFUL OPERATION FOR THE CURE OF LARYNGISMUS PAR¬ 
ALYTICUS, OR ROARING IN THE HORSE. 
By T. S. Butler, V.S., Minneapolis, Minn. 
While in Appleton, Wisconsin, last summer on a pleasure 
trip, I was requested to operate on a horse for the cure of the 
above mentioned disease. 
The subject was a draft stallion about ten years old, which 
was almost worthless in his present condition without wear¬ 
ing a tracheotomy tube all the time. He was driven from 
Oshkosh to Appleton, a distance of twenty miles, to the stock 
sale to be disposed of. 
Three friends of mine (viz.), Drs. Kaurtz and Mack, and 
Mr. Johnson, purchased the animal at a small figure for the 
purpose of having him operated on. He was the worst roarer 
I ever saw, could not travel the distance of a block at a slow 
trot without falling unless the tube was kept in the trachea. 
He was operated on according to Dr. Fleming’s method as 
laid down in his work on the subject, and at the end of six 
weeks, when the wound had complete^ healed, he was put to 
work on a dray in town, doing his work nicely without roaring, 
then was sold and taken to the lumber wood in the northern 
part of the State, where he worked all winter on a logging 
sled, hauling seven miles to the landing without roaring a par¬ 
ticle and without wearing a tube. Anyone who has wit¬ 
nessed the loads they are compelled to haul can testify that 
the work is very hard. 
I have been informed by several parties who worked in 
the same camp that he did his work as well as any of the 
other horses without roaring and still continued sound. 
I have operated on seven cases thus far with the following 
results: Four complete recoveries, two partial and one failure. 
The best results have been obtained in the operations on draft 
horses. 
