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" The symptoms that would indicate disease of the teeth 

 to be present, would be — imperfect mastication, in con- 

 sequence of which the stomach would have more to do, and, 

 from the food being longer retained within that viscus, its 

 appropriative powers would be enfeebled and deranged, 

 which would speedily be shown by portions of the aliment 

 passing through the digestive track entire. Associated with 

 this would sometimes be a staring coat, with a harsh and 

 unthrifty appearance of the animal ; and what is designated 

 hide-bound might also be present, accompanied with more or 

 less emaciation, and a low febrile appearance of the system. 

 Besides all this, in some instances we shall have a portion of 

 the corn, in a half-masticated state, from time to time thrown 

 out of the mouth into the manger, mixed with a quantity of 

 saliva; also, the animal, if watched narrowly, would be 

 observed suffering much pain during mastication, and sud- 

 denly stop and rest for a time, and then begin again to eat. 

 Foetor, likewise, when the mouth is examined, will be found 

 present to a greater or lesser extent. Who has witnessed 

 these symptoms, and seen the horse hanging his head by 

 the side of the manger, with saliva dribbling from his mouth, 

 cannot hesitate for a moment to acknowledge that the poor 

 brute is suffering pain; which, if we were to call tooth- ache , 

 would not be believed by our employers.'^^ 



CARIOUS TEETH. 



There are instances on record of carious teeth being dis- 

 covered, and of their being productive of such consequences 

 as have led, through error, to a fatal termination. The 

 following relation ought to operate on our minds as a warning 

 in pronouncing judgment in cases of glanders, or at least in 

 such as assume the semblance of glanders: — 



A horse, the property of government, became a patient of 

 Mr. Cherry's, on account of a copious defluxion of fetid, 

 discoloured, purulent matter from the near nostril, unaccom- 



' Gowing's ' Essay on the Disease of the Teeth of the Horse,' 'Veterinarian/ 

 vol. XX iv. 



