PUBLIC OPINION. 



HORSES' TEETH. Such is the title of a work we have just 

 read with considerable interest, because it embraces much that 

 is instructive and useful. Designed as the publication is to 

 give a synopsis of the fundamental principles of dental science, 

 it has a defect attributable to the author's lack of practical 

 experience in the specialty of which he treats. * * * The 

 chapter on canine teeth contains much of interest, and fully 

 sustains the theory that horses suffer from febrile irritations, 

 as the result of interrupted dentition, and that the free use of 

 the lance is as serviceable as when used on an obstructed eye- 

 tooth of a child. The disease known as lampas, which is often 

 accompained by a distressing cough, and which so seriously 

 interferes with feeding, is shown to be due to the same cause 

 and to require the same remedy. To state that caries most 

 frequently proceeds from inflammation beginning in the pulp- 

 cavity, or that caries of the roots is the result of inflammation 

 of the alveolo-dental periosteum, is certainly far from the ex- 

 perience of the practical dentist; but, notwithstanding these 

 defects, there is much of value in this (the eighth chapter) as 

 well as the succeeding chapters on the dentistry of the teeth, 

 their indications of age, their nerves, &c. * * *. G. N. 

 Pierce in "Dental Cosmos" 



"HORSES' TEETH," by Wm. H. Clarke of New York, is a 

 neat and handsomely bound volume, containing selections from 

 the very best authors, with appropriate additions by the 

 author, making a book that is invaluable to veterinary sur- 

 geons, and of great practical benefit to dentists, and should be 



