RURAL VETERINARY SECRETS 



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indigestion, wounds of the tongue and lining of the mouth, side 

 pulling on the bit, the manger often being covered with saliva. 



TREATMENT 



The treatment is simple, calling as it does for the use of the 

 float (dental file) and yet is not simple enough to warrant the trust- 

 ing of this work to the traveling quack or the majority of owners. 

 The veterinarian should be employed and after the removal of the 

 projections soft feed should be given for a few davs. The average 

 Work Iiorse Mill need this attention once a vear. 



Excessive salivation (Due to faulty or irregular teeth). 



DECAYED TEETH often cause symptoms in horses which 

 have in the past been mistaken for Glanders, Nasal Gleet. Such 

 symptoms as a stinking breath, together with a stinking discharge 

 from one nostril, quidding of the food, pain during chewing, (shown 

 by the animal suddenly stopping that act often to let some of the 

 food fall from the mouth) holding the head to one side when drink- 

 ing, loss of condition and perhaps a swelling of the jaw, or fistula of 

 that bone. The only successful treatment is removal. 



