198 FRACTURED JAWS. 



"The horse was cast, the corner tooth on the left 

 side extracted, the wound thoroughly cleansed, and 

 the fractured bones brought in contact. Holes were 

 drilled between the tushes and the second incisors of 

 both jaws, through which brass wires were passed. A 

 compress of tow and a ligature, the bearing-place of 

 the latter being over the tushes, surrounded the whole. 

 Thus the jaws were apparently fixed immovably to- 

 gether. The wires yielded somewhat to the struggles 

 of the horse, but the bandage of tow was tightened so 

 as to retain the fractured edges in apposition. 



" The wound now began to exhale an infectious odor, 

 and gangrene was evidently approaching. M. Bouley 

 determined to amputate the fractured portion of the 

 jaw, its union to the main bone being apparently im- 

 possible. The sphacelated portion of the jaw was en- 

 tirely removed ; every fragment of bone that had an 

 oblique direction was sawn away, and the rough por- 

 tions which the saw could not reach were rasped off. 



"Before night the horse had recovered his natural 

 spirits, and was reaching for something to eat. On the 

 following day he ate oats, and no one looking at him 

 would have suspected that he had been deprived of his 

 lower incisor teeth. The next day he ate hay. In a 

 fortnight the wound was nearly healed." 



0. D. House, veterinary dentist, performed an unu- 

 sual operation on a seven-year-old horse, the property 

 of Mr. J. T. Allen, of Hartford, Conn. In 1876 a 

 surgeon (?) made an incision in the right cheek and 

 knocked out a large part of the fifth upper grinder. 

 The violence of the operation fractured both the tooth 

 and the jaw, imbedding a large fragment of the former 

 in the bone above the socket. A year afterward, the 



