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lower jaw, diminishing the power of the animal to bite, until 

 he could be liberated. 



I have, in the foregoing pages, recorded a singular case of a 

 horse suffering from a bit of wood being wedged between its 

 upper incisors. Occasionally a dog is prevented from moving 

 its jaws, indicates great agony and symptoms allied to those 

 of choking, if any object gets fixed on his molar teeth. I can 

 relate a quaint story regarding a dog thus tormented I was 

 solicited to look at a lady's pet, which, it was supposed, from 

 the inattention of the servants, had been left on a terrace at 

 the top of a four or five storied house, and, dissatisfied with 

 solitary confinement, the dog jumped over into a court below, 

 fracturing its lower jaw. This history was related to me as 

 matter of fact, and I gazed at the pug-nosed "King Charles," 

 wondering that it had survived the fall. His eyes were pro- 

 minent and bloodshot, saliva was flowing from the partially 

 opened mouth, and, on looking at the latter, the apparently 

 bleeding end of the jaw bone could be seen. On feeling it, 

 however, and exploring with my finger, I ascertained that the 

 fracture was a myth. I uplifted the bloody bone and displaced 

 it from between the molars, much to the astonishment of the 

 ladies and the gratification of Charley, who, instead of prac- 

 tising flying from the house top, had picked up a troublesome 



Fig. 7. 



morsel in the kitchen. I here furnish a drawing of the bone, 

 which I have preserved to this day. Such is an example of 

 the histories of cases veterinarians, as well as physicians, get 



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