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lungs of a healthy animal. While it is true that the serum from a 
diseased lung can, after being carried a long distance and kept 
for a considerable time, be introduced into the tail of a healthy 
animal, and produce inflammation and febrile symptons, yet a 
post-mortem would fail to show the slightest trace of the charac¬ 
teristic lesions of pleuro-pneumonia in the lungs. 
I am equally convinced that no infecting power remains in 
any germs that may have found lodgment in litter or refuse 
or in any portion of the stable or buildings, and cannot see the 
slightest necessity for ordering the destruction of buildings, or 
compelling them to remain empty for weeks or months, except 
to entail unnecessary loss and expense upon the unfortunates who 
have had diseased animals and got rid of them. 
While as a matter of cleanliness and for the purification of 
the atmosphere of a stable, the use of lime and other disinfect¬ 
ants is not at all objectionable, yet I do not believe it necessary, 
if all the diseased animals and those that have been in contact 
with them have been entirely removed, and the stable refilled 
with perfectly healthy animals among which are no “ recovered 
cases;” for these latter have been the means of spreading the 
disease in many instances; where not suspected themselves, they 
have infected healthy animals, and the litter or buildings got 
the credit for it. Kill all chronic cases and animals that are 
diseased or have been in contact with diseased animals and you 
need have no fear of inanimate objects as mediums of con¬ 
tagion. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY, 
ROARING IN HORSES—LARYNGISMUS PARALYTICUS. By George 
Fleming, C.B., LL.D., F.R.C.Y.S., etc. Bailiiere, Tindall & Cox, Wil¬ 
liam Street, Strand, London. 
This is an excellent little work of one hundred and sixtv 
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pages, handsomely illustrated, for which his professional brethren 
are indebted to that indefatigable observer and author, George 
Fleming. The disease of roaring, with its surgical treatment, 
has for some time engaged the attention of English veterinarians, 
among whom it has become a subject of much controversy. The 
