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often fractures the alveolar cavities, and the cutting 

 edge, despite the guard, generally wounds the mouth. 

 The rasp may be tedious, but the chisel is dangerous ; 

 and neither one or the other are proper for the pur- 

 pose, though till lately, these rude tools were the only 

 dental instruments the veterinary surgeon could boast 

 of. A want of some more surgical and appropriate 

 means of shortening the projecting molars has long 

 been seriously felt ; and that want the ingenuity 

 of Mr. T. W. Gowing, the esteemed practitioner of 

 Camden Town, to whose inventive genius the mem- 

 bers of the veterinary profession are so largely in- 

 debted, has at length supplied. The instruments he 

 has constructed have two grand recommendations: 

 they are equally simple and effective. Seeing how 

 little complexity they exhibit, it seems strange that 

 no one should have previously thought of them ; but 

 the same thing is generally said of every invention 

 of real utility. The only difficulty in these matters 

 is to catch the idea, and this Mr. Gowing has most 

 happily accomplished. He has produced a complete 

 set of veterinary dental instruments; discarding all 

 of those which have hitherto been employed, with 

 the exception of the mouth rasp, which he leaves 



