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and on his return had tied him up in his box. Five minutes after- 
wards, he found the patient had in his absence dropped down dead. 
Post-mortem . — The lungs were sound — the right lobes full of 
blood, from lying upon that side — the vascular lining of the 
stomach certainly redder than usual, and yet presenting nothing 
amounting to inflammation produced by poisoning — the intestines 
and other viscera healthy — the membrane covering the septum 
nasi and turbinated bones having the worm-eaten aspect denoting 
chronic ulceration. Both frontal sinuses contained white purulent 
like matter, but presented no ulceration. 
The fatal operation of the medicine appears to have been on the 
nervous system. In substance it affected the alimentary mucous 
membrane differently from what it did in solution. In the latter 
form it dangerously insinuated itself into the system. 
EXTRACTION OF THREE MOLAR TEETH — ONE 
SWALLOWED— NEW INSTRUMENT USED. 
By Mr. W. A. Cartwright, V.S., Whitchurch, Salop. 
On the 24th May, 1843, a mare was brought to me, about 
thirteen years of age, that was a quidder. She would bite the 
grass off, or chew the hay for a short time, and then drop it out ; 
and, of course, she was very poor. I examined her mouth, and 
found that a part of the inside of the farthermost molar tooth on 
the near side of the lower jaw was very long and sharp, and pro- 
jected against the upper jaw ; that a portion of the inside of the 
fifth molar tooth, on the off side of the lower jaw, was very sharp 
and uneven, and projected out against the tongue ; also, that the 
posterior molar tooth, on the same side, was very long, and pro- 
jected against the upper jaw. 
I cast her, and tried to knock off the sharp projecting upper 
portion of the fifth molar with the end of a smith’s rasp, but 
could not, and in attempting which I loosened it, and ultimately got 
it out whole by punching. Its roots were two short thin fangs, 
and which were evidently becoming absorbed. 
I next tried to knock off a portion of the sharp point of the sixth 
molar, on the lower jaw on the near side, but I could not; I found, 
however, that I had loosened it a little. I then went to a black- 
smith’s shop, and had an instrument made to pull it out. It was 
made out of a piece of f of an inch rod of iron, twenty-one inches 
long, one end of which was flattened, then split up, and sufficiently 
bent up towards the handle so as to grasp the back part and sides 
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