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better. I have proved that, in attempting to 

 file thefe pretended overgrown teeth, they fhake 

 all the upper and undcr-jaws, and frequently- 

 even caufe inflammations by the violent fhocks 

 of the files they ufe to lower the eminences : 

 and this operation, far from making him feed 

 with eafe, prevents it. I have even feen teeth 

 which were broken off by this operation. 



Error VIII. 



They take out what is thought a nerve at the 

 end of the nofe for different reafons, which 

 anfwers no end, and does more harm than good; 

 I have ken horfes become blind upon it, and 

 others feized with a gangrene, and that by 

 the great inflammation that happens from this 

 method upon the part. Our old pra6litioners 

 pretend that this a is nerve which begins at the 

 end of the nofe, and extends to the lafl vertebra 

 of the back (a meer error) ; for it is the two 

 elevator mufclcs of the upper-lip which, take 

 their origin or attachment under the eyes, and 

 terminate at the end of the nofe •, from which 

 nothing but a tendon is the refult •, the opera- 

 tion confifts in making an opening at the end 

 of the nofe, and raifing the tendon with a wild 

 goat's horn ; dividing the two mufcles near 

 their infertion, and pulling them forcibly out ; 

 this operation is performed for feveral difeafes. 



H Error. 



