Horses' teeth: a treatise on their mode of development, anatomy, microscopy, pathology, and dentistry; compared with the teeth of many other land and marine animals, both living an by Clarke William H

Author:Clarke, William H
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Teeth, Horses
Publisher: New York, W. R. Jenkins
Published: 1893-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

wound, notwithstanding the trephining had been performed a year before I saw the animal.

" The defluction had an offensive smell, and the sub-maxillary gland was enlarged, causing suspicion of glanders. The opening had been made a little too high, so that the central instead of the superior part of the sinus was perforated. I found that the whole mischief was caused by a diseased tooth. With the assistance of a smith I removed the tooth, which was split up its middle and considerably decayed. It was more than two inches long, and was bent forward toward the cheek. The odor was most offensive. I then opened the frontal and maxillary sinuses, both of which were filled with fetid pus. The wounds were first treated with a weak solution of chloride of lime, and subsequently with an ordinary astringent lotion. In addition to the local treatment, I administered the diniodide of copper.

"After a considerable time the wounds were allowed to heal, and the mare appeared much better. But very shortly the discharge began to flow again worse than ever, and the smell was almost intolerable. Determined, if possible, to make a cure of the case, I cut into the sinus again with the skull-saw, taking out a triangular piece of bone about two inches long by one inch and a half broad. At the upper part of the cavity I found some masticated food in a state of decomposition. It had passed through the alveolus into the sinus. Fractured bones were removed, and the opening being extended through into the nostril, a small instrument could be passed down it into the mouth. A weak nitric acid lotion was used to induce fresh inflammatory action, and, if possible, to fill up, by an effusion of lymph, the passage through which

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