180 THE DEI^^TISTEY OF THE TEETH. 



"There are in this, as in former reports, cases where 

 the superior maxillary bone and its sinuses have been 

 injured from the elongation of the grinders of the in- 

 ferior maxilla, causing a nasal discharge in many cases 

 mistaken for that of glanders. They are easily reme- 

 died by shortening the teeth with the cutting-forceps." 



Surgeon A. H. Santy says ("Veterinarian," 1875, 

 p. 835): 



"On the 26th of Jnne I bought a six-year-old mare. 

 She continued to work till July 17th, when she was 

 suddenly taken with a slight running from the near 

 nostril, which greatly increased in twenty-four hours. 

 The submaxillary gland on that side swelled. There 

 was slight tenderness of the throat and loss of appe- 

 tite, which soon passed away. I showed the animal to 

 a brother surgeon, and told him I thought of trephin- 

 ing. He said: 'Don't be in a hurry.' It struck me 

 there might be something wrong with the grinders. I 

 examined them, and found the fourth superior near 

 side tooth with a depression on the outside and slightly 

 raised from the surface of the other teeth. There was 

 slight fetor from the food lodging there. I at once 

 cast the mare, and with some difficulty extracted the 

 tooth. I then dressed the wound and nursed the mare 

 for a few days. The discharge from the nostril ceased 

 in ten days. I have the mare now in constant work." 



The above case deserves consideration for several 

 reasons. Thousands of horses with precisely the same 

 symptoms have been killed because the surgeon could 

 not discriminate between diseased teeth and glanders. 

 The "slight tenderness of the throat and loss of appe- 

 tite, which soon passed away," was the result of the pus 



