4 THE TE2TH AS IXDICATOIIS OF ASE. 



•Ill US- The facts tliat follow, however, are of more 

 les3 use, aud are worthy of perusal. Prof. Youatt 



" The indications of age, independent of the teeth, 

 •e deepening of the hollows over the eyes ; wrinkles 

 ^er the eyes and about the mouth ; gray hairs, par- 

 cubrly over the eves and about the muzzle; the 

 )untenance and general appearance; thinness and 

 ano-ino- down of the lips; sharpness of the withers; 

 S\..^nf the back; lengthening of the quarters, and 



number of years, and also the black spots in the 

 middle of the teeth about the twelfth year. In con- 

 clusion he says : "Finally, the number of wrinkles, 

 the sadness of the countenance, the stupor of the 

 eyes, the baldness of the eyelids, the dejection of 

 the neck, and the lassitude of the whole body indi- 

 cate age." (Book IV., Cap. V.) I have never seen 

 what could be called a description of the wrinkles in 

 any other book, but my attention was called to them 

 by Dr. Wm. Wilson, of Jersey City, N. J., in 1881. 

 Vegetius Kenatus, Puhlius, is often confounded with 

 Vegetius Eenatus, Flavhts, a military author. Ve- 

 getius wrote on veterinary science ; Varro, Columel- 

 la and Palladius on agriculture. Fragments of the 

 works of Apsyrtus (or Absyrtus), the Greek veter- 

 inarian (about A. D. 830), are extant, but I have 

 never seen anything of his on age. He described 

 glanders, fevers, epizootic influenza, dental cysts, 

 etc. (See Jouunal of Comparaiive Medicine and 

 Surgery for Januarv, 1884, page 19.) 



