CHAPTER IX. 



THE DENTISTRY OF THE TEETH. 



Reports of Cases Treated by Various Surgeons. Gutta-Percha 

 as a Filling for Trephined Sinuses. Teeth Pressing against 

 the Palate. Passing a Probe through a Decayed Tooth. 

 Death of a Horse from Swallowing a Diseased Tooth. 



HORSEMEN, farmers, and other practical men will 

 find much useful information in the present chapter, 

 for it is based on the experiences of Veterinary Sur- 

 geons, whose reports appear in the various volumes of 

 "The Veterinarian" (printed monthly in London), 

 and to which I am so much indebted for other useful 

 information. It is probably not too much to say that 

 the more generally the chapter is read the fewer horses 

 will be killed in the future for having decayed teeth, 

 accompanied with a discharge from the nostril. 



In "The Veterinarian" for 1856 (p. 437) Surgeon J. 

 Horsburgh reports the following interesting case, en- 

 titled "Chronic Nasal Gleet produced by a Diseased 

 Tooth:" 



"About twelve months ago I was consulted about 

 the case of a mare with a discharge from the near nos- 

 tril. She had been under treatment for eighteen 

 months, and the superior maxillary sinus had been 

 opened with the trephine. The discharge, however, 

 continued to flow^ both from the nostril and the 



