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was left open, as advised by Dr. Fleming-, and the operation 
throughout was conducted as near as possible to his descrip- 
ion of the operation in his work just out. After the animal 
had sufficiently recovered from the anaesthetic he was allowed 
to rise and walk back to the barn. 
A thin piece of gauze was tied around the neck, covering 
the wound, and kept wet with the antiseptic solution and a 
little of the solution was injected in the wound. No food or 
water was allowed for thirty-six hours, when a few swallows 
of water and some bran and oatmeal gruel was given him, 
which he swallowed without much difficulty. The throat 
was dressed antiseptically twice a day, and the diet was con¬ 
fined to gruel for several days, when a little grass was al¬ 
lowed. 
On the ninth day after the operation Dr. Pence and I 
threw the animal again and examined the interior of the 
larynx and wound. We found it in good condition, except 
in two or three places the granulations were rather profuse. 
These we touched with a solution of ar^entri nitras and 
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continued the former treatment for four weeks, when the 
wound was about healed. Then a run of seventy-five yards 
was given him without producing any roaring. 
A few days afterward, the wound having healed, the ani¬ 
mal was turned out on grass, when the former owner one day, 
having a curiosity to know what condition he was in, went to 
the pasture without our knowledge, got on his back and gal¬ 
loped him all over the field, giving him a severe test, but 
without producing any roaring. 
On July 24th, about six weeks after the operation, Drs. 
Pence of Troy and Charlesworth of Springfield, together 
with the writer, went to the pasture and tested him thorough¬ 
ly by running him up hill and in every other way we could? 
but without producing any roaring. The respirations were 
somewhat harsh, which was unquestionably due to chronic 
thickening of the nasal and tracheal mucous membranes. 
