1?8 THE DENTISTRY OK THE TEETH. 



of the fact, I expressed a wish to examine his mouth 

 once more. I accordingly put a balling-iron into his 

 mouth and introduced my hand, and at the extremity 

 of the grinders I found two teeth, one on each side of 

 the lower jaw, which had grown long enough to press 

 into the roof of the mouth, and thus prevented the 

 animal from eating. I endeavored to extract these 

 teeth with an instrument similar to that used for the 

 human teeth, but without effect, as it could not be 

 got on them. I then contrived an instrument which 

 was very simple. When it was passed up the mouth, 

 the tooth became fixed between the divided end of the 

 iron ; the handle being then turned, the tooth was 

 extracted with the greatest ease. From that moment 

 the horse began to feed, and rapidly improved in con- 

 dition. In a short time he went to work, and has done 

 well." 



Surgeon C. May, of Maiden, Eng., thus tells how he 

 cured "A Case of Disease of the Jaw" ("Veterinarian," 

 1834, p. 93): 



" I was requested by Mr. Ram, of Purleigh, to look 

 at a horse which he told me had a 'cancer' in his jaw. 

 I found my patient, a fine young chaise-horse, looking 

 very poor, and having a constant discharge from the 

 region of the root of the second lower grinder. There 

 was considerable enlargement of the bone, which led 

 me to suspect disease of the tooth, and which, on ex- 

 amination, proved to be true. On introducing a probe 

 into the orifice, I found that it went through the tooth 

 into the mouth. I was informed that this supposed 

 cancer had been under the treatment of a farrier, and 

 that the poor beast had been subjected to many pain- 

 ful caustic applications. As I was satisfied that no 



