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of the horse doctor, who to his surprise told him the next 
molar would have to come out, and wanted to proceed at 
once to remove it. But the owner became discouraged and 
took his horse to a qualified veterinary dentist, who at once 
diagnosed the trouble as ulcerated teeth, the roots of which 
had been left in as above described. The dentist advised the 
removal of the roots as the only successful treatment. He 
accordingly trephined the jaw, and removed the roots with 
but little difficulty. The removal was followed with a satis¬ 
factory recovery. 
Now herein lies the conditions that govern the reward. 
Kalamazoo is a beautiful city of twenty-five thousand inhabi¬ 
tants, with all modern improvements, such as street railways, 
electric lights, paved streets, colleges, churches, humane so¬ 
cieties, etc. This queen Celery City also has the distinction 
of being the home of a United States Senator, United States 
Representative, a Federal Judge, ex-State Supreme Judge 
and ex-judges too numerous to mention. Yet with all of her 
accomplishments, this ancient horse doctor and dentist was 
allowed to sue the poor man for professional services, and 
with the advice and testimony of his medical adviser, who 
signs himself a graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College 
and honorary member of the Royal Society of Veterinary 
Surgeons, obtained judgment for the same with interest from 
date. And to add to this already ignominious proceeding, 
one of our leading morning papers came out, saying that the 
plaintiff’s attorney showed a wonderful knowledge and skill 
of the anatomy of the horse, and claiming to have established 
the valuable precedent that professional bills must be paid. 
OBSTINATE CONSTIPATION-RUPTURE OF THE COLON—DEATH. 
By D. K. Light, D.Y.S. 
A dark bay gelding, four years old, was taken with violent 
colic on the 12th of October, 1889, about ten o’clock A.M., at 
which time I was sent for, but being absent, order was left to 
call to see the horse immediately on my return home, which 
occurred at five o’clock p.m. When first seen he was lying 
