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A. LIAtJTARD. 
time in April, this animal was stabling in Philadelphia, and was 
noticed to have a little swelling on the right side of the face. This 
increased by degrees and was accompanied by offensive discharge 
from tiie nose. Shown to a veterinary dentist—for that specialty 
claims to exist in veterinary medicine—he examined the mouth, 
said that he found a decayed tooth, extracted it, and though 
the tooth proved healthy, said, “ it was all right, and the pa¬ 
tient would get well.” 
Still, he did not get well, the swelling kept on increasing, the 
discharge became more abundant and offensive, and a veterinarian 
called to see him and made a diagnosis of suppurative collection 
of the sinuses, and advised trephining. This was done. The 
tumor then was quite large, soft at places and the opening through 
the maxillary bone was done with a simple scalpel, showing how 
diseased it already was. This operation was no more successful, 
and I was requested by the owner to see his horse. The doubt, 
I thought, was not possible. The animal had a cancerous degene¬ 
ration of the bones of the face—sarcomatous, I believe—and I ad¬ 
vised him to be destroyed. 
At the time when he was about being killed, a veterinarian of 
some celebrity in Philadelphia, and another pretended horse 
dentist celebrity of New York, who were present, declared the ac¬ 
tion of destroying a disgrace, as the horse was suffering with de¬ 
cayed teeth only and would recover if those were removed. 
This permission was granted and the 4th, 5th, and 6th molars 
were extracted. All you can see are healthy, witli the exception 
of a small decayed spot on one. 
The horse did not improve for that. Still, at last, and for reasons 
that I cannot understand, he was returned to his owner, with the 
information that everything that humanity could do was done, 
and that nature would do the rest. 
Again, however, our horse dentist, who had written through 
the newspapers of his success in the case, finding his patient not 
recovering fast enough, calls another veterinarian, this time from 
Brooklyn, professor in one of the veterinary colleges of New 
York, and once again the horse is submitted to surgical interfer¬ 
ence. He is trephined in the upper part of the nasal bone, through 
