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^' Surgeon Claywortli reports the case of a mare that 

 fell while being ridden almost at full speed, and frac- 

 tured the upper jaw three inches above the corner in- 

 cisors. The teeth and jaw were turned, like a hook, 

 completely within the lower teeth. The mare was cast, 

 a balling-iron put into her mouth, and the teeth and 

 jaw puUed back to their natural position; she was then 

 tied so that she could not rub her muzzle against any- 

 thing, and was fed with bean-meal and linseed tea. 

 Much inflammation ensued, but it gradually subsided, 

 and at the expiration of the sixth week the mouth was 

 healed, scarcely a vestige of the fracture remaining. 



" An account of a very extraordinary fracture of the 

 superior maxillary bone is given in the records of the 

 Royal and Central Society of Agriculture in France. 

 A horse was kicked by another horse, fracturing the 

 upper part of the superior maxillary and zygomatic 

 bones, and almost forcing the eye out of its socket. 

 Few men would have dared to undertake a case like 

 this, but Monsieur Kevel shrank not from his duty. 

 He removed several small bones, replaced the larger 

 ones, returned the eye to its socket, confined the parts 

 with sutures, slung the horse, and in six weeks he was 

 well. 



"Surgeon Blaine relates that in treating a fracture 

 of the lower jaw he succeeded by incasing the entire 

 jaw in a strong leather frame. I have myself effected 

 the same object by similar means. 



" Prof. Bouley says (" Recueil de Medicine Veteri- 

 naire," 1838) that he treated a horse whose lower jaw 

 had been completely broken off at the neck — that is, 

 at the point between the tushes and the corner incisor 

 teeth, the detached bone being held by the membrane 

 of the mouth. 



