233 DISEASES OF THE TEETH, ETC. 



came necessary to bind compresses of tow firmly upon the 

 bleeding parts ; whicli could be effected only by carrying a 

 broad tape around the jaw between the tusks and corner 

 incisors, and confining it there by tying its two ends in a 

 knot upon the front of the gum, underneath the upper lip. 

 After a couple of hours the compress was removed, and 

 the hemorrhage proved to have been permanently arrested. 

 Had the operation of torsion been known to me, I might, 

 I think, have succeeded in stanching the hemorrhage with 

 less trouble and in less time. 



The Operation of Burning, if it must be performed, 

 appears best done in the old farriers' mode of proceeding. 

 An iron, shaped as under. 



is heated to redness, and with its edge, which ought to be 

 sharp, a portion of the substance of the bars, about the size 

 of a crown piece, from the middle and most protuberant 

 part, is sliced off; care being taken that the instrument 

 does not penetrate deep enough to sear the bone. This at 

 once gets rid of the assumed evil, and is altogether the pre- 

 ferable operation; nor will it, performed in this partial and 

 cautious manner, be productive of aiiy very serious mischief. 



SHARP AND PROJECTING TEETH. 



Among the annoyances and hinderances the horse expe- 

 riences to his eating, may be classed a sharpened and over- 

 grown state of the molar teeth or grinders. Some irregular 

 action in the jaws occasions a slanting wear of their grind- 

 ing surfaces, and the consequence, in the course of time, is 

 the projection, to a considerable extent, of the inner of the 

 lateral edges of those teeth beyond the outer, and the 

 consequent conversion of their grinding surfaces, from an as- 

 perous level into an inclined plane, of greater or less extent 

 according to the length of time the change has been going 



