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We regret that the conclusion of Dr. Liautard’s translation 
of MM. Nocard and Roux’s important article on “The Microbe 
of Pleuro-pneumonia ” could not be published in this issue, for 
the reason that the photo plates illustrating it are held in the 
custom house, and despite our earnest efforts their exit could 
not be hurried. Its publication will therefore be delayed until 
the September issue. 
A NEW SURGICAL OPERATION on the laryngeal apparatus 
for the relief or cure of roaring in horses, termed “ Arytenoider- 
aphy,” is described under “ Reports of Cases,” and practiced in 
the clinics of the McKillip Veterinary College. 
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Review. 
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OTITIS EXTERNA (EAR CANKER). 
Ev Frank H. Mieeer, V. S., i6 East 42d Street, New York City. 
In premising to consider the phenomena of inflammation, 
which from time to time involves that part of the epidermal 
appendage reflected over the inner surface of the external ear of 
the dog, variously known as otitis, otorrhoea, “canker,” etc., I 
would beg to be allowed to do so strictly from the point of view 
of a practitioner of veterinary medicine, who, for long years 
cheerfully followed the fortunes of perhaps a vast majority of 
young veterinarians, in adhering more or less closely to lines 
as laid down for us by our early teachers, regarding the etiology, 
pathology, and therapeutics of this common and troublesome 
condition, oftentimes meeting success of the most indifferent 
and unsatisfactory kind. 
That so many veterinarians should complain of like results 
is not at all surprising, as a glance at our English text-books 
with their similarity of construction will show. 
