American Veterinary Review, 
.JANUARY, 1889. 
EDITORIAL 
Laryngotomy in Horses. —The error of our printers in the last issue—re¬ 
port of our trials—three cases—three failures—the reason: Is it our modus 
operandi ?—or what ?—the danger of the operation falling into the hands of 
quacks—how easy imposition can be practiced with regard to it, as evidenced by 
the case recorded in the Philadelphia Press. The National Patho-Biologioal 
Bill. —Will it receive the endorsement of the prof ession ? — will it pass Congress ? 
Swine Plague Commission. —The answer of the Chief of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry to the challenge of Dr. F. S. Billings—a petition to the Commissioner 
of Agriculture—the committee appointed an impartial and well selected nomina¬ 
tion—Dr. Salmon’s letter. Veterinary Associations. —Their formation in the 
East results in their organization in the West—new ones in shape—Indiana—Cal- 
fornia—our remarks of last month misinterpreted—Dr. Carpenter’s letter—socie¬ 
ties with more stringent by-laws can now be formed better than at first. Cas¬ 
tration not Veterinary Surgery. —Letters on the subject—the Review the 
servant of the profession. 
Laryngotomy in Horses. —After reading our editorial re¬ 
marks touching the surgical cure of roaring in horses in our De¬ 
cember number, our readers must have been somewhat surprised, 
when looking for a report of our experience with two patients of 
that description which had been prepared for that issue, to find 
that for some reason it had failed to find a place. We wish to 
say that the fault for this omission is not ours, but it is due to a 
mistaken exercise of responsibility on the part of our printers, 
who, having been furnished with an excess of material for the 
December issue, felt themselves justified in exercising their dis¬ 
cretion in selecting from the corrected proofs such articles as they 
supposed might without damage be postponed for publication in 
