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power, and the incisor teeth were nipping the tongue, and champing 
upon it. This, it will be observed, is inevitable, because the 
various muscles which open the jaw soon tire and become utterly 
exhausted by their continued effort to keep the mouth open ; then 
the jaws close as a natural consequence. The following morning 
that portion of the tongue hanging out beyond the teeth ap- 
peared to be perfectly dead and quite cold ; amputation was had 
recourse to ; there was scarcely any haemorrhage, and the case 
did well. 
Shortly after this I had a case in my own practice, in which the 
driver admitted that, the mare being a very headstrong mare, he 
could not hold her by the bit, and in a moment of temper he seized 
hold of her tongue, at the same time the mare snatched up her 
head, and he pulled her tongue so far out that she could not draw it 
again within the mouth. I found the tongue protruding eight or 
nine inches ; it was not in any way torn, but the animal was 
utterly unable to retract it. I at once made a sling of some calico 
in the form of the toe of a stocking about three inches long, 
and from each side I had connected a strip of calico, which I carried 
up on each side of the face to behind the ears, and tied it just suffi- 
ciently tight to draw up the tongue inside the mouth and within the 
incisor teeth. In a short time she drank some water, and ate some 
mash with the tongue in the sling; she was a long time over it; 
following day the mare was better ; the third day I took off the 
sling to wash it, the tongue protruded about three inches ; I put the 
sling on again for three days, and again took it off to wash it, the 
tongue now protruded about one inch ; at the end of about eight or 
ten days the mare was entirely recovered, and continued quite right 
for years afterwards. 
I have had another case precisely similar to the above, and 
I adopted the same method of treatment with the same successful 
result. 
All the gentlemen present entered into the discussion which 
followed. 
There was also some little argument, which was introduced by 
Mr. A. Lawson, upon the various principles of shoeing now before 
the public. Taking everything into consideration, a very pleasant 
evening was spent. 
Alfred Challinor. 
Hon. Secretary • 
