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ANIMAL DENTISTRY. 



consisting of the foot engine used by human dentists, 

 equipped with a circular cutting wheel, by which cups of per- 

 fectly normal shape and size can be made. 



Modus operandi : The horse is backed into a single stall 



Fig. 83. 

 An 8- Year-Old Mouth Made "6" by "Bishoping." 



and secured in the dental halter. An assistant works the 

 dental engine with the foot. The operator holding the hand- 

 piece of the flexible shaft in the right hand and the jaw in 



Fig. 84. 

 A 9 or 10- Year-Old Mouth Made "7" by "Bishoping." 



the other, cuts first a large elliptical cup with sharp commis- 

 sures in the table of the corner incisors, then smaller ones 

 in the laterals^ and small dots in the centrals. As the wheel 

 revolves with great velocity, the cupping is the work of but 



