LACERATED TONGUE. TT 
even occasionally to give the toe an opposite direction by allowing it to 
sink into the open drain. Such presumption horrifies the groom’s sense 
of propriety. The ignorant mind’s idea 
of beauty is ‘everything to match.” He 
thinks all is so nice when the animals dress 
to a line, like soldiers on parade. To have 
this line preserved, even in his absence, he 
puts ‘‘a chaw” into the refractory “brute’s” 
mouth. This chaw is to be preserved night : 
and day. The tongue soon gets under the ABTEE OR eee Gee 
rope. Timidity is rendered yet more fearful 
by persecution. The voice of the groom has become a terror to the 
quadruped. It hangs back for ease, and is surprised by the vehement 
exclamation of the tormentor. Back goes the neck and up goes the 
head. The animal runs to its manger, but something has fallen upon 
the floor! The horse was luxuriating in hanging back to the full ex- 
tent when surprised. The sudden start jerked the halter rein, and the 
result is the free portion of the tongue falls from the mouth, severed by 
the rope. 
These are lamentable instances of the general behavior of grooms to 
the creatures entrusted to their care. Nothing is so corruptive as mis- 
placed authority. A little mind knows no difference between the pos- 
session of power and the indulgence of tyranny. The use and the abuse 
are synonyms to the ignorant; and the sins committed principally reside 
with him who places the life Heaven has entrusted to his care in such 
unworthy custody. 
When a tongue is partially divided, do not insert sutures of any kind. 
Metallic sutures wound the fleshy palate, and silk sutures soon slough 
out. Neither, therefore, does good, and 
each serves to confine the food which 
enters the division. Foreign matter irri- 
tates a wound and retards its healing. 
Consequently, do nothing to the tongue 
when partially divided. Feed the patient 
on gruel until the healing is complete, and Fee e ee ee eon vor Soaps 
wash out the mouth thrice daily, with some ___ The jaw has heen divided to show the 
: s injured tongue, as it would appear in the 
chloride of zinc lotion, one scruple of the — mouth. 
A a, The indentation at the seat of injury, 
salt to a pint of water, after the manner and which will remain s0 long as life 
. F . 5 shall continue. 
described in the preceding article. 
Should the tongue be separated to that extent which divides the ves- 
sels, then, with a knife remove the lacerated part, which otherwise being 
deprived of support, must slough off. Still do nothing to the tongue 
