FARM AND STATION.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13741, 24 May 1910, Page 4

FARM AND STATION.

("Weekly Press and Referee.") ROARING IN HORSES CUHED BY OPKKATIOX.

Tho theory that roaring in horses is an hereditary disease is held by many breeders and veterinary surgeons, though there are others, again, who hold the opposite view. .Some distinguished sire.-, lane been roarers and yet, through, "he stock produced by them, they have made great names.for themsel.-cs. .The late Mr Geo. G. "Stead did not consider roaring ;t. serious defect in a sire, and when bis groat horse Muititoni.' contracted this trouble on his trip to England, it did not deter Mr .Stead from bringing him back to New Zealand and using him in his stud with the highly successful results now so well kn.iwn in the racing world. The great Seotiish Clydesdale horse Sir Evrrard was not tree from this trouble, and yet he begot a race of animals which were distinguished as much by their soundness as by their quality, and -.morig others of liij bo-getting was i:u> world-renowned Huron's Pride, which may bo said to have founded a hew and predominant dynasty in tho Clydesdale I v.erld. \\_ ri'iev have it on the author. ! :ty of one of the most eminent profes- ' (-ors of veterinary surgery that the >oI called her-editi-y disease ot ••rearing" j can be removed by operation as effectu. j ally, as appcndieit.s can be cut cut of j the human Ix.dy. 'The operation is one that ro';Tiires great skill and rare, j.nd no doubt in.-olve? some little risk, but it is claimed to bo effective in roI moving the trouble. .Mr Frederick I Hobday, *_* lUW.S.. F.R-..5..K., describe:; '» the -Veterinary Jounral" hew the operation is performed. The method was originally suggested by Dr W. L. William~. professor of veterinary jnrgery at the Cornel i .University Veterinary Sehrol. New York. The operation is said to do vcrv little damage to the cartilages ol the larynx. Ilcyond splitting tho cart Hag-: to thorcnghl*' expose the interior of the larynx, tho i cartilage tissue is not damaged at all. and in some eases r-rolessor Williams .-.ays that even this can be avoided. The object of the operation is to strip e.ff all the mucous membrane which lines the ventricle of the larynx, thus making two raw surfaces which eventually adhere and "cause the arytenoid cartilage to become fixed against the I side of the glottis by cicatrical adhesion " In three or four weeks after the operation there is only a small scar left to denote that an operation has taken place, and as soon as tho w-.nnd is healed a horse, can be exercised. Pi-ofes&or Hobday has _ conducted four operations in England, and with eo'iinlcte success, and no cloubt wo shall soon hear of other veterinary surgeons "idopthig this method of curing roaring in valuable horses.