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mouth washed twice daily with the same until I saw him again; 
also that the mare should be milked, and the milk and a small 
quantity of gruel be poured down the colt several times per day. 
One week after, I saw him, and found lie had nearly recov¬ 
ered the use of the tongue, and the ulcers healing rapidly. He 
was then allowed to nurse the mare and would drink gruel from 
a pail. I ordered sponging of the mouth as before, but used a 
weaker solution. I did not see him again for four weeks, when, 
to my surprise, I found that nature had commenced to create a 
new jawbone; and in two months nature had fully accomplished 
her work, and a new jawbone was fully formed, but a little thicker 
than the other, but no teeth have yet appeared. The colt is in 
fine condition, and able to eat hay and grain as well as any colt. 
Ho one, from his external appearance, would notice the differ¬ 
ence in his maxillaries. 
As to the cause, I am unable to say, but I am of the opinion 
that there had been a comminuted fracture of the jaw, and ne¬ 
crosis had been the result. Allowing that to be the case, would 
it not be better, in case a young and valuable animal should by 
accident badly fracture the jaw, to carefully remove all of the 
splinters and detached bone, and let nature have a chance rather 
than to order the animal destroyed ? 
Respectfully yours, 
C. D. Smead, Y.S. 
Logan, N. Y., April 12tli, 1878. 
J. C. McKenzie, Esq., 
Dear Sir :—Yours of April 8tli has just arrived, asking for a 
more definite account of the removal of the maxilla which I re¬ 
ported to your Association. (A^ to the amount of bone that I 
removed, I think that I stated that I removed the whole of the 
left inferior maxilla, from the second nipper back to its articula¬ 
tion with the glenoid fossa of the squamous temporal; or, in 
short, the whole of the left inferior maxilla bone, including one 
nipper and all the molars upon that side). I think I can see, 
from the tenor of your letter, a disposition to doubt the truth of 
