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CLIPPINGS FROM MEDICAL PAPERS. 
A QUEER TOOTH-PICK INTERFERING WITH MASTICATION. 
By M. O’Connell, D.V.S. 
Mr. W. S., of Greenby, Mass., called on me to visit his hors 
which, according to his story, was losing flesh very rapidly. H 
is a young horse and had always been fat until about six weed 
ago, when he began to get thin. Desirous to examine the eond 
tion of his mouth and of his teeth, I introduced my hand int 
that cavity and found a stick of hard appletree wood laying aero, 
the palate, wedged between the fourth molars, and which coul 
not be removed without heavy force prying upon it. A ver 
offensive odor came from the mouth, and a large ulcer was foun 
on the palate at each one of the molars. I saw him a few day 
afterwards: these ulcers were found healing very fast, the ba 
smell of the mouth had almost entirely disappeared, the aniim! 
was eating well, and everything showed that in a short time h 
would regain his good and natty appearance. 
CLIPPINGS FROM MEDICAL PAPERS. 
THE PLAGUE, AND HOW TO ESCAPE FROM IT. 
By J. W. Gadsden, M.R.C.Y.S. 
The animal industries of the United States are in imminen 
peril from the ravages of an insidious, contagious and incurabl 
sease in cattle, commonly called pleuro-pneumonia or lun‘ 
i l g ue - Many years ago it obtained lodgment on the Atlanti| 
seaboard from imported cattle, and notwithstanding repeatey 
warnings of the danger to be apprehended from its spread, basey 
upon the experience of European countries that have suffere* 
severely from it, our people blinding themselves to their peril 
and by spasmodic and half-way measures simply averting tilt 
disease for a time in particular localities, have allowed it ti 
spread until it has now obtained a firm foothold in the Westerr 
States, as well as in a number of the Eastern ones ; and it i; 
only a question of a very short time when it will find its way tc 
the immense herds on the Western and Southwestern ranges 
