EQUINE DENTISTRY. 
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een made the subject of special investigation, is rather a pe- 
uliar one when we consider the intimate connection existing 
etween this little animal and our ordinary human economies 
irough the mutual surroundings of both, as occupying the 
ime domicile, and coming in such frequent contact, both as 
eighbors and belligerents. 
Dr. Weber has, we think, selected an interesting line of in- 
uiry, and one which may lead to valuable discoveries in re¬ 
ject to the conveyance of communicable diseases, if not in 
ther directions also. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
EQUINE DENTISTRY. 
aper read by E. H. Shepard, D.Y.S., before the Ohio State Veterinary Medi¬ 
cal Association, Columbus, O. 
I do not propose, by presenting for your consideration this 
aper on the above subject, to give you anything like an ex- 
austive treatise on this important branch of our daily work, 
or, in the first place, I could not if I would, as age and ex- 
erience forbid. But as there may be some here even younger 
tan I in this class of work, their attention I especially desire, 
rnd to all, may what I have to say act as a wedge whose sharp 
oint enters the hard knot, and opens it for the benefit of all. 
o may some truth, be it new or old, follow the time-crack 
f experience, deep into the storehouses I see before me, 
id beneath the blows of good intention, although hurled with 
trembling arm, may they open and yield up their wealth of 
easure, the choicest products of years of thought and labor, 
i the discussion 1 hope may follow. 
As often as I find some new complication in my chosen 
ork, not told to me from the lecture desk, nor laid down in 
ly of our standard works, then I wonder have others all 
arned this or that fact only by experience, dearly bought at 
lat, perhaps, and if so, how slow are we not to more often 
•ek the advice of those who are older in experience than we ; 
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