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THE OPERATION OE “ FIRING” FOR ROARING. 
.—TREATMENT OF SPAVIN. 
By E. C. Dray, M.R.C.V.S., President of the Yorkshire 
M.V.A., Leeds. 
I am quite sure that many members of the profession, as 
well as myself, will thank Mr. J. G. Cattrall, M.R.C.V.S., 
for his very candid letter in last month's Veterinarian in 
reply to mine of December last, relative to the operation of 
firing" for roaring. I trust other members will follow 
Mr. Cattrali’s excellent example, and give us the benefit of 
their experience, so that the subject may be fully discussed 
and ventilated. 
But I would respectfully suggest that the professors of 
the Royal Veterinary College should on all occasions 
thoroughly investigate any new operation or mode of treat¬ 
ment, so that we provincial vets, may have their authority 
to state to our patrons the result of the College experiments. 
I have had my doubts of the good effects of “ firing" for 
roaring, and suspected there was a strong odour of em¬ 
piricism about it. Another operation for iC bone spavin" 
is performed by some veterinary surgeons, and, as I am 
credibly informed, successfully, by dissecting the integument 
over the spavin, and introducing some caustic substance, then 
replacing the integument and inserting sutures. Perhaps 
those practitioners who resort to this operation will inform 
us as to its results, and if I have rightly described it. 
OBSTRUCTIONS IN THE BOWELS OF DOGS. 
By Thomas Greaves, M.R.C.V.S., Manchester. 
The subject of this communication may not possess to 
some of your readers that interest and value which it would 
had any particular mode of treatment been adopted, whereby a 
cure had been effected and the lives of the patients saved. 
Others, again, may think as I do, and maintain that cases 
which recover are not at all times the most interesting or 
capable of affording us the greatest amount of valuable in¬ 
formation as future guides, nor of exciting the same amount 
of useful matter for contemplation and reflection, as do well- 
