200 FKACTURED 



Surgeon J. P. Heath thus describes a case of frac- 

 tured jaw (" Veterinarian," 1878, p. 288) : 



" In May last I was called to see a horse that had 

 been kicked by another horse. I found a transverse 

 fracture of the left side of the lower jaw, between the 

 first and second grinders, with lesion of the buccal 

 membrane. The bone protruded inward, the tongue 

 hung out of the mouth, and a constant flow of saliva 

 existed. The animal's appetite was good, but there 

 was of course a total inability to masticate. The horse 

 was seventeen years old, but as the farmer (Mr. Gale, 

 of Exminster, Devon,) could ill afford his loss, I agreed 

 to try to cure him. 



" I procured a wedge-shaped piece of wood, six or 

 seven inches long by half an inch thick, which, after 

 fitting it between the branches of the jaw, I well be- 

 smeared With warm pitch and pressed it tightly be- 

 tween the fractured end of the bone. I then fixed 

 another piece of wood of the same length, but two 

 inches thick, which was also besmeared with pitch, 

 outside the fracture, placing a bandage six inches wide 

 over the whole, and tying it over the face below the 

 eyes. 



operated on Edward Everett, Judge Fullerton, Emperor (owned 

 by S. D. Houghton, of this city), and other notoriously vicious 

 horses." 



The statement about Mr. House's mode of operating is strictly 

 true. His control of a horse appears to be a gift. He never 

 confines a horse, not even in performing the operation of castra- 

 tion. In an " interview " with a reporter of The, New York Sun, 

 printed in 1877, in reply to the question, " How do you know 

 when a horse has the toothache ? " he said : " He tells me that he 

 has it." So Mr. House must understand " horse-talk " as well as 

 horse-dentistry. 



