The Horse's Mouth, Showing the age by the teeth

CONTENTS.

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1.	That the teeth of the horse denote the age of the animal &c.	1
2.	In every case the evidence of the teeth is secondary to direct and substantiated testimony; &c.	3
3.	Some of the causes which induce certain persons to doubt &c.	4
4.	The teeth more frequently contradict an arbitrary calculation than disagree with fact.	7
5.	For the security of the purchaser of a horse, not connected with the turf, the teeth are a sufficient guard, &c.	10
6.	The description of the teeth &c.	14
7.	The teeth are situated &c.	15
8.	The teeth are organised, &c.	16
9.	The horse possesses forty teeth, &c.	16
10.	Three substances enter into the composition of the horse’s tooth.	18
11.	The crusta petrosa &c.	18
12.	The enamel &c.	20
13.	The ivory &c.	20
14.	The uses of the ivory, enamel, and crusta petrosa &c.	22
15.	The separate uses of the three component structures, &c.	24
16.	The various parts and peculiarities of form, &c.	32
17.	There are infundibula also in the molar teeth, &c. 35
18.	To distinguish an upper from a lower molar tooth &c.	36
19.	The teeth of the horse are very firmly implanted in the jaws, &c.	37
20.	The molars of the lower jaw are the active agents of mastication, &c.	37
21.	Provision has been made by Nature to meet the wear to which the horse’s teeth are subjected.	38
22.	The cavity of the pulp &c.	42
23.	Nature provides the horse with two sets of teeth.	43
24.	To know the temporary from the permanent teeth, &c.	46
25.	To recognise a milk incisor tooth &c.	46
26.	The permanent incisors are indicated by their greater size, &c.	49
27.	The temporary cannot be well distinguished from the permanent molars, while the horse is alive.	51
28.	The various points which denote youth &c.	52
29.	The indications of age &c.	53
30.	The incisor teeth in old age, &c.	54
31.	Some judges depend upon the tushes as indicative of the age, &c.	57
32.	The wolf’s teeth or eye teeth aid us in judging of the age; &c.	59
33.	The mode in which the horse cuts his teeth &c.	60
34.	The manner of examining the teeth &c.	65
35.	At birth &c.	69
36.	At six weeks, &c.	69
37.	At six months, &c.	69
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