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 be broken and the fang left in the jaw. When the 

 extraction of the milk teeth has been general, I have 

 seen numbers of horses, with the broken fangs in 

 their mouths, palpable evidences that the animals 

 have been tampered with. But, supposing all of the 

 tooth to be removed, nothing would be thereby 

 gained. The permanent tooth does not push out 

 the temporary ; nor does the temporary, so directly 

 obstruct the coming up of the permanent, as to 

 render its presence or absence of much consequence. 

 If the fang be removed, there may be nothing to 

 absorb, but on that account it does not follow that 

 there will be anything more deposited. The body 

 of a man does not grow larger because one or more 

 of his limbs have been amputated. On the contrary, 

 the shock occasioned to the system by the operation, 

 and the consequence ensuing on the loss of blood, 

 may cause an immediate diminution of the frame. 

 So, if a horse's tooth be drawn, the animal is alarmed, 

 tortured — and, if the creature recovers from these 

 effects very speedily, so that no loss of growth could 

 be estimated, certainly the most favourable circum- 

 stances would not allow us to imagine any stimulus 

 to development had been created. There will be 



