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the request of Mr. Barnum, a merchant of our city, 

 and the owner of a breeding farm in Westchester 

 county, I attended a two-year-old colt, considered 

 to be very valuable, as he comes from trotting stock. 

 Mr. Barnum merely said the colt had a discharge 

 from the base of the near ear, and that it had existed 

 for ten months. 



"I found the animal so very shy on account of 

 the previous torturing of his attendants, that I could 

 not approach him; therefore I had to cast him. 

 The introduction of the probe failed to satisfy me 

 that any foreign body existed there, but on dilating 

 the orifice and introducing the most reliable of all 

 probes, my fore finger, I discovered a hard substance 

 which was firmly attached to the temporal bone 

 and surrounding parts. I could not grasp the sub- 

 stance with the forceps, therefore I used the handle 

 of the instrument as a lever, and after using great 

 force dislodged it. Mr. Barnum picked up some- 

 thing in the grass four or five yards from me and it 

 proved to be a molar tooth. On examining the 

 wound afterwards I found some loose fragments of 

 bone, and on removing them they appeared to be 

 the socket of the tooth. These parts have entirely 

 healed and left no blemish." 



The development of teeth in the sinuses of the 

 head is a rare occurrence, yet I have been fortunate 

 enough to see one such case. The subject was a 



