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C. E. SAYRE. 
Sunday, i a.m. Horse passed fasces with clyster of oil, 
drank linseed oil and water, pulse 60. 7 A.M. Had three 
quarts of soft bran and drank water with a little linseed meal. 
9 A.M. Saw horse ; pulse 40, fasces regular; injected weak 
solution potass, permanganate per rectum. 6 30 P.M. Bowels 
regular; injected weak solution of potass, permanganate. 
Horse doing well. 
Monday, 9 A.M. Pulse 40, eating hay, and fasces regular. 
Tuesday, 9 A.M. Doing well, and bowels regular. 6 P.M. 
Owner removed horse from hospital with instructions to feed 
soft mashes and put handful linseed meal into all drinking 
water, and to report if animal’s bowels were not regular. 
Tuesday, February 17th. Saw animal at work. Owner 
informed me horse had done well ever since he had removed 
him from hospital, and had been at work for several days. 
VETERINARY DENTISTRY. 
By C. E. Sayre, D.Y.S., Professor of Dental Surgery, Chicago Veterinary 
College. 
(A Paper read before the Illiuois State Veterinary Medical Association.) 
Until within the last few years no branch of veterinary 
science has been so much neglected as veterinary dental 
surgery. Recently, however, there has been a revulsion 
among veterinarians, and now about one-half of the cards one 
sees read “John Smith or Tom Jones, V.S. Dentistry a spec¬ 
ialty.” 
The practice of veterinary dentistry dates back much far¬ 
ther than most of the profession are aware of, and l must 
confess that I was very much surprised on looking the matter 
up. The oldest work at my disposal is a translation from the 
French by Wm. Hope, published in 1596, and he gives the 
best description of the irregularities of the teeth of the horse 
that I found until our more recent works. I will give you a 
quotation from him. You will notice that the wording is 
very peculiar, and every disease is called a distemper. “ In 
this distemper the grinders grow either outwards or inwards, 
so that when the horse feeds the points of those teeth that are 
