CHAPTER XX. 

 OSTEO POROSIS. 



This disease may affect any or all portions of the 

 osseous system, often involving the teeth, and it is 

 this fact that has led me to consider the subject in 

 this work. The teeth frequently become so loose 

 that they can be drawn out with the fingers. Dr. 

 Weese, of Ottawa, 111., relates a case where all the 

 superior molars were loose with but little enlarge- 

 ment of the facial bones. Such cases frequently occur, 

 and in order to properly diagnose the condition it is 

 necessary to understand the disease. It would be of 

 no use to operate or extract the teeth of such ani- 

 mals, as the disease is not amenable to treatment and 

 the animal so affected sooner or later succumbs to 

 the disease. 



Dr. Anderson, of Macon, Ga.,who has made the 

 subject a special study, read the following paper 

 before the Illinois Veterinary Medical Society, 

 November 16, 1888: 



" It is more with a view of directing the atten- 

 tion of the veterinary profession, rather than cast- 

 ing any light upon the etiological or therapeutical 

 phase of the disease, that I offer this article on the 

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