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(as well as difficulty in mastication), pharyngitis and 

 laryngitis (sore throat), and nervousness. 



These diseases do not necessarily exist in all 

 horses, any more than do their analogues in the 

 human subject. Some animale are very susceptible 

 to any change in the system, and they are the ones 

 that become most often affected. As a general rule, 

 well bred animals are the most susceptible to diseases 

 of any kind. 



The general symptoms which direct our attention 

 to diseases of the mouth, whether in young or old 

 horses, are discharges of saliva from the mouth with 

 continual slobbering ; cudding of the food ; difficulty 

 of mastication or deglutition or of both ; stench of 

 buccal secretion, perhaps of breath as well ; more or 

 less discharge from the eye ; more or less nervous- 

 ness; exhibition of pain while drinking; constant 

 motion of the head while at work; failing appetite, 

 and consequently a falling off in condition. 



When the above symptoms are present, one 

 should not fail to make a careful examination of the 

 mouth. In fact, if I am called to treat a horse that 

 is in his fifth year, I always look well to his teeth, 

 and in a good many instances I have been able to 

 diagnose the case without any further examination. 

 Mistakes are oftener made in diagnosis by ignoring 

 the mouth, than by placing undue weight upon a 

 proper examination of that cavity. 



