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any circumstances whatever. It being very late, I invited Mr. 
House to accompany me home, and we would decide upon the 
case in the morning. Accordingly, on Saturday morning, June 
19th, we again visited the stable and made another thorough ex¬ 
amination of Prospero’s mouth. I was fully satisfied as to the 
condition of his teeth, and when Mr. House, in manipulating the 
mouth, stated that the sixth- molar was already loosened, I said to 
him “we will pull his teeth.” I then took a small pair of forceps 
from my case and gave them to Mr. House, and he immediately 
placed them within the buccal cavity and tried to get hold of tie 
tooth, but found the forceps too short, and he could not reach 
the tooth with them. I said to him, “ I have a large pair at my 
office, I will send for them,” and calling to the young man who 
had the care of the stable, I started him for the forceps. This 
man, on his way to the office, and when nearly two squares from 
the stable, says he met Hr. J. W. Gadsden and his student on their 
way to the stable to see Prospero, and recognized him at the time. 
After the attempt to remove the tooth, we closed the door of 
Prospero’s stall and had just stepped to one side, when Hr. Gads¬ 
den drove in. I introduced him to Hr. House and invited him 
to examine the horse and tell me what he thought the difficulty 
to be. He did so, and in making his examination used a specu¬ 
lum which he brought with him, as I had nothing but a small 
balling iron at the stable. After satisfying himself he called me 
outside the stable and said, “ Hr. Miller, this is not ‘ big head.’ ” 
I told him I did not think it was. He said he thought the whole 
trouble was carious teeth, and the removal of them would cer¬ 
tainly relieve the horse, and that if he was in my place he would 
not kill this horse under any circumstances, as it would not only 
reflect upon me but upon Hr. Liautard and his college as welJ, 
and he hoped that such a mistake would not be made. I told 
him I had already made up my mind not to destroy the horse at 
this time, would disobey orders, would extract the teeth, and sent 
my student to hurry up the man with the forceps. 
All being ready Hr. Gadsden and myself, each assisting 
Hr. House, extracted the teeth, consisting of the third, fifth, 
and sixth molars, the fourth having been removed by Mr. 
