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been confined mainly on the one hand, to those cases which 
have terminated favorably, and which are consequently of lit¬ 
tle value except as items of news or to sustain Dr. Fleming’s 
position (which scarcely needs it) that roaring can be so 
cured; and on the other hand, to those cases operated upon 
by inexperienced persons like myself, which have terminated 
disastrously, and which, so far as we have seen, are generally 
devoid of pathological data or interest, and designed only to 
throw discredit upon the illustrious inventor of the operation, 
which with careful study promises, in spite of adverse criti¬ 
cism, to accomplish much good. 
With the hope, therefore, that in reporting this case, we 
have in part at least revealed some changes heretofore unno¬ 
ticed, and perhaps suggested some imperfect means for avoid¬ 
ing them, we feel warranted in recording it as a slight addi¬ 
tion to the clinical study of this very interesting operation. 
RECTAL EXAMINATION AS AN AID IN A CORRECT 
DIAGNOSIS OF CERTAIN DISEASES. 
By J. M. Phillips, Y. S., Wichita, Kan. 
A paper read before the Kansas Veterinary Medical Association. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Association :—The sub¬ 
ject of this article is one to which I have been applying all my 
odd moments for some months past, hoping to give you some¬ 
thing that is very new or interesting about it. The subject 
itself does not convey to your minds the idea that it would 
take any deep study on my part to say a few practical things 
about it, and that is just why 1 chose it. Not being able to 
finish a paper 1 was preparing for this meeting, I laid it aside 
for the present and in the emergency chose this. 
In this paper I am not required to give the pathology or 
even the treatment of any of the diseases that this subject 
touches upon. One particular disease in all its phases is sub¬ 
ject enough for an essay of varied lengths. Volumes have 
been written on tuberculosis, pleuro-pneumonia and hog 
cholera and many other diseases, some the pathology of 
