QUIDDING. S2$ 



manner. The horse from this cause often refuses his food, since 

 mastication causes him severe pain. He soon begins to lose 

 flesh, the digestive organs become deranged, the skin becomes 

 tight, and the animal is perhaps doctored for bots, worms, and 

 the like. 



In all these cases the tooth-rasp becomes necessary, which 

 is an instrument made concave, or hollow, upon one side, and 

 convex, or rounding, on the other, with a long handle attached. 

 The rasp is upon the hollow side, the round side and the edges 

 being perfectly smooth so as not to wound the cheeks or tongue 

 when used. With this instrument the sharp corners of the teeth 

 are easily taken off, and the horse is enabled to feed again in 

 the proper manner. If the teeth are in this condition, no 

 medicine is of any avail ; all the condition powders in the world 

 will not benefit in the slightest degree ; the tooth-rasp is the 

 only remedy that will prove serviceable. 



QUIDDI]SrG. 



This disease, if disease it may be called, is generally caused 

 by the irregular wear of the teeth already mentioned ; or it may 

 arise from caries of the teeth, or from a diseased state of the 

 muscles of deglutition. "I have seen," says White, "at the 

 kennel the jaw of a horse which died literally from starvation 

 in consequence of a disease of the grinding teeth, which ap- 

 peared to have been brought on by feeding on coarse woody 

 hay, containing the stocks of thistles, docks, &c. This animal 

 was what dealers term a quidder, for the muscles of deglutition 

 were at least so affected that he was incapable of swallowing ; 

 and after fruitless attempts to chew his food it was thrown out 

 liito the manger in a ball or quid, and a great deal of imp«r- 

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