450 ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. 



If treatment is deferred, however, till there is an open, ulcerous gum* 

 with the existence of proud flesh, push a stick of lunar caustic deep into 

 the unhealthy granulation in the cavity, so as to destroy it. Then keep 

 down the fungous growth by the use of the caustic, day after day, until 

 the stinkinir discharjre has ceased. This will not be until the bone has 

 ceased to scale away ; and the wound may now be safely left to heal. 



A cure affected, the next thing to do is to select a bit that shall press 

 upon another part of the mouth, or there may be a repetition of the evil. 

 The snaffle may be used with comparative safety where the curb has in*- 

 flicted serious hurt. 



