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evidence of the fact that the service which it is in the power of 
the veterinarian to render in the elucidation of questions pertain¬ 
ing to the domain of comparative pathology are now thoroughly 
appreciated, becomes further evident from the language of Dr. 
Verneuil, when he says: 
“ Let us who are professors and members of this faculty thank 
the veterinarians for their happy initiative and the warm desire 
they have exhibited in coming among us.” 
If to the numerous objects for which our medical conventions 
are usually called—such as that of stimulating new investigations 
and prosecuting pending researches, or settling questions of occa¬ 
sional professional interest—is to be added that of awakening a 
drowsy public from their slumbers, and of dissipating the fancies 
of dreamy specialists, there can be no doubt that the first inter¬ 
national congress for the discussion of tuberculosis has fully suc¬ 
ceeded in its purpose, though only an incidental one, as the min¬ 
utes of its transactions, soon to be printed, will doubtless show. 
Surgical Interference in Laryngeal Paralysis Producing 
Roaring. —The intractability to treatment which characterizes 
the evil of chronic roaring renders it a serious annoyance to many 
practitioners who are called upon for its treatment; and adding 
to this circumstance its liability to involve the owners of the 
affected animals in financial loss, it obviously constitutes an affec¬ 
tion which not many persons, either veterinarians or owners, are 
over-anxious to encounter. In its treatment mere palliative re¬ 
sults are usually the best that can be attained, and even these are 
not always sure of accomplishment. The various pathological 
changes which give rise to the peculiar symptoms of noisy respira¬ 
tion, and at times of threatened suffocation, are not always of 
easy and positive detection, and even the question of their loca¬ 
tion, and whether they are specially to be looked for in the 
laryngeal space, or only affect the organ thus situated by abnor¬ 
mal action, remains one which as yet involves a degree of uncer¬ 
tainty to which many errors of diagnosis are to be attributed. In 
other words, it cannot always be determined whether the trouble 
is located in the larynx or should be looked for elsewhere in the 
respiratory apparatus. 
