A GOVERNMENT HORSE'S HARD LOT. 185 



William Percivall in his work entitled " Hippopath- 

 ology" (vol. ii, p. 237). He says: 



" There are instances on record of carious teeth be- 

 ing productive of such evil consequences as to lead, 

 through error, to a fatal termination. The following 

 relation ought to operate on our minds as a warning 

 in pronouncing judgment in cases of glanders, or at 

 least in such as assume the semblance of glanders : 



"A horse, the property of government, became a 

 patient of Surgeon Cherry on account of a copious 

 deduction of discolored and purulent matter from the 

 near nostril, unaccompanied by submaxillary tumefac- 

 tion, or by ulceration of the Schneiderian membrane. 

 For two or three months the case was treated for 

 glanders ; but no improvement following, a consulta- 

 tion was deemed necessary, the result of which was 

 the horse was shot. 



" On examination of the head, the third upper left 

 grinder proved to be carious, one-third of its root be- 

 ing already consumed and the remainder rotten. The 

 formation of an abscess within its socket had loosened 

 the tooth, and the matter flowing therefrom had estab- 

 lished a passage into the contiguous chamber of the 

 nose. The antrum was also in part obstructed by the 

 deposition of osseous matter. 



"This is a case which, but for the inquisitiveness of 

 Surgeon Cherry, would have merged into that hetero- 

 geneous class of diseases passing under the appellation 

 of chronic glanders. 



"My father's museum contained several specimens 

 of carious teeth. One was that of a grinder, the inte- 

 rior of which was black and rugged, from being eroded 

 by ulceration, and the roots had from the same cause. 



