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Clark some time before. We had quite a severe hemorrhage 
together with a slight discharge of pus. On examination of the 
teeth two of them, the third and sixth were found diseased, the 
fifth entirely sound. For a time the horse ssemed to feel some¬ 
what depressed iu spirits, but soon rallied from the effects of the 
operation. After a day or so the swelling was considerably re¬ 
duced. The general condition of the animal seemed to improve, 
he ate such food as was given him with a relish, although he did 
not improve in flesh. The discharge from his wound entirely 
ceased, while that from his nostrils lessened, and that which 
escaped through the alveolar cavities either decreased entirely or 
was swallowed by the animal, which from future developments I be¬ 
lieve now to have been the case. I wrote the owner several times 
stating to him the general condition of the animal. About the 
middle of July I received a letter from the owner stating that 
Mr. Olias. Backman had consented to keep the horse for the rest 
of his life, and that as soon as he could be safely removed he was 
anxious to get him there. I then wrote him that I thought 
Prospero woidd be able to go away on or before the first of August, 
if nothing more serious should occur. The horse in the mean¬ 
while, although very thin in flesh, was apparently doing as well as 
could be expected, and although his chief food had. been eggs, 
milk, wheat, shorts, and soft food of any kind, he would now eat 
hay, oats, grass or anything he could get. 
I then wrote to Mr. Parks stating that I thought Prospero 
could be removed, that I had done about all that I could do for 
him under the circumstances, and that nature would do the rest; 
meaning that should the horse live and get out to green grass, 
nature would assist him just as much as I or any one else in re¬ 
storing his former flesh and condition, and this was written in good 
faith and with no motives of “ sarcasm,” as has been suggested in 
an article published in a New York journal. The day following 
tiie horse was unfortunate enough, while running at large in a 
grove adjoining the stable, to pick up a piece of corn cob and in 
chewing it forced a piece into the cavity left by the removal of 
one of the teeth, and a severe hemorrhage followed its removal. 
The horse in consequence appeared much worse than he had been 
