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nitrate and fl. ex. belladonna, every four hours, alternated with 
salicylate of sodium every four hours. This case improved 
almost from the beginning of treatment, and is now feeding 
nicely. 
These cases, I think, will suffice to show the mode of ther¬ 
apeutics in the use of salicylate of sodium as applied by myself. 
I use this agent in all cases of sudden or acute stiffening, lami- 
nitis, stubborn miasmatic fevers, acute lameness from hard 
drives, and in horses having had an overdrive, making them 
sore and stiff the next or following days, it is almost a specific. 
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x\ryTENECTOMY. —The value of this operation is, properly 
speaking, still in doubt in the minds of many veterinarians, 
and, while many good authorities are in favor of it, a great 
many consider it as not yet deserving the efficacy that is 
claimed by the former. And, while it has not found, even in 
its birthplace, the adoption that the authority of Professor 
Moller ought to have given tout—or in England, where Flem- 
ino- first advocated it—it has found in Professor Cadiot, of 
Alfort, a strong advocate and a great admirer. But he has also 
met with confreres who deny the operation its advantages and 
almost its indication. Professor Moussec, of the same school, is 
' among them. At a late meeting of the Societe Centrale in 
Paris, Cadiot took an opportunity to defend his claim, and in 
a very strong argument presented before his brother-members a 
concise record of the cases upon which he has operated. 
Twenty cases of roaring were operated on by him, and of these 
he has been able to follow : Seven radical recoveries, two tem¬ 
porary improvements, the balance unsuccessful, making a pretty 
good percentage—nearly fifty per cent, of successful cases. The 
operation which he prefers is the removal of the arytenoid carti¬ 
lage and the corresponding vocal cord. He claims that a great 
deal of the result depends on the manipulations of the surgeon 
and the mode of cicatrization. If we have well understood his 
