OPERATIONS ON THE SKULL, FACE, LIPS, ETC. 



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form the \'acuum in the mouth which is necessary to enable 

 it to swallow the mother's milk, and so has to be artificially 



Fig. 64. — An Inoperable Case of Single Hare-lip in a Griffon. 



fed. The milk returns down the nostrils, and to enable the 

 animal to get sufficient nutriment the teat of the feeding- 

 bottle used should be sufficiently 

 large to fill (and reach to the back 

 of) the mouth. A hare-lip may be 

 double (Fig. 68) or single (Fig. 66), 

 and the cleft in a palate may be 

 wide or narro\^' ; the latter may onl}- 

 exist in the anterior or posterior 

 portion of the mouth, or it may 

 extend the whole length. A small 

 cleft is, naturalh', more easih" dealt 

 with than a large one, and one 

 existing only in the anterior portion 

 of the mouth much less serious than one at the back. As a 

 rule, unless successfully operated upon, if the cleft is at all 



Fig. 65. —A Bulldog, 

 Three Years old, 

 with Single Median 

 Hare-lip, but no Cleft 

 Palate. 



