CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS ON ROARING. 
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horse can be examined safely in stable or paddock by day or 
night. 
3.. Perhaps the most potent reason for this method of ex- 
animation will be found to lie in the probability that hemi¬ 
plegia and atrophy exists for months in many cases before 
•repeated severe exertion develops the dyspnoea and hence 
our ability to detect the disease by the usual means, while 
digital exploration will detect the malady in its earlier stages. 
We make our diagnoses and prepare for operation upon 
this digital exploration alone and if the patient is exerted at all 
it is merely to test the intensity of the dyspnoea as a matter of 
curiosity rather than of scientific importance. 
Suit against a Veterinarian. —English clients hold 
their veterinary advisers to strict account, if we may judge by 
the frequent litigations which they are called upon to defend. 
A cab proprietor owned a mare which became choked upon a 
potato which she was seen to take from a basket in the stable 
yard Drinking water returning by the nostrils when adminis¬ 
tered and mappetence for food caused the owner to send her to 
his veterinarian's infirmary, Arthur Ellison, of Harrogate, who 
administered oil, etc., without success. He then passed the 
probang, which obstructed in the thoracic portion of the oeso¬ 
phagus, and he could not dislodge the object. The same was 
done the next day, with similar success. He then decided to 
allow nature to take its course as the mare appeared better and 
returned her to the owner, who also considered her improved. 
That night she was worse. Again the probang was passed, this 
time with the corkscrew stiletto, and succeeded in removing 
the potato; but told owner it was too late as patient had septic 
pneumonia. Another practitioner was called in, who when 
she died, held a post-mortem, and found not only septic pneu¬ 
monia, but a ruptured oesophagus. Dr. Ellison was not invited 
to the autopsy. Owner sued Ellison for £ 5 o. Jury returned 
verdict for defendant, with costs and allowances for scientific 
experts. A point of the prosecution was that the horse should 
have been “ cast ” for the operation of passing the probano- (I) 
Dr. W. L. Williams, of the New York State Veterinary 
College has been appointed by by the Mayor of Ithaca a mem¬ 
ber of the Municipal Board of Health. We understand that 
the honor of the position is far in excess of the salary. 
