VE TERINAR Y DENTAL S URGER Y. 151 



My observations have been limited, but enough 

 has been seen to convince me that many dollars' 

 worth of sheep die annually from this cause alone. 



Not long since I came across three carcasses of 

 sheep that had died (did not learn their history), all 

 of which had suffered great emaciation at the time 

 of their death, they then being mere skeletons. 

 The heads were removed, boiled and prepared for 

 the museum. In all were found diseased teeth. 

 Fig. 37 and Fig. 38 are from drawings of the 



teeth of two of 

 them, the third 

 bei n g i n t he 

 same condition. 

 Since preparing 

 the above speci- 

 mens my obser- 

 , 37. 



Upper and lower molar teeth of the vations on 

 sheep, showing a projecting molar. ^ animal 



FIG. 38. 



Lower molars of a sheep. , a cavity, the result of an 

 abcess. 



