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found the blood running into the mouth instead of through the 
opening I had made. I then pressed my finger farther down, 
and felt it go into the cavity made by Mr. Clark when lie removed 
the tooth. To prove this, I passed my other hand into the ani¬ 
mal’s mouth, and extending my index finger into the cavity, 
brought the ends of my fingers in contact with each other. By 
this time the hemorrhage had become very severe, and I discov¬ 
ered that the animal was swallowing. I was therefore obliged to 
suspend further operations and stop the hemorrhage, and with 
the assistance of Dr. Legambre I soon had it under control. I 
then plugged the wound with a lint of oakum, as well as the cav¬ 
ity whence the tooth had been taken, and as the horse appeared 
somewhat prostrated, concluded to suspend further operations for 
the present and take the animal to the stable. I called to se« him 
the next day, and observed that the animal had rubbed the oakum 
from the wound, and that it was discharging pus similar to that 
which had previously escaped from the mouth. I took a probe, 
and inserting it into the wound, passed it directly into and against 
the inside of the jaw bone in the cavity left by the tooth. I 
could also feel what I conceived to be a loose piece of bone. I 
took my forceps, and placing them in the opening, seized upon 
and removed a wedge-shaped piece of bone about as large as my 
thumb nail. I felt again, and obtained another, and repeating 
the operation, removed a third—the last two smaller than the 
first. The three pieces, when fitted to each other, corresponded, 
and would about make up the space in the external portion of the 
jaw bone through which my finger and my probe had passed into 
the alveolar cavity, and which had no doubt been fractured and 
misplaced when the tooth had been removed, giving rise to the 
irritated condition of the alveolar labialis muscle. After thor¬ 
oughly cleansing the wound, nostril and mouth with carbolic acid, 
dressing and placing the horse under careful treatment, I left him 
again without trephining. I visited him regularly semi-weekly 
until about the first of June, during which time he continued to 
grow worse, and both Mr. Turner and myself became alarmed 
for his safety. I told Mr. Turner several times during these vis¬ 
its that I believed it to be a sarcomatous degeneration of the 
