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Title: The Horse : its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London : Gresham
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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movedin every direction. Endowed with a high degree of sensibilityand mobility, it plays an important part inthe function of mastication and deglutition. The Bars.—The bars are represented bythat small section of the lower jaw situatedin the male between the canine teeth and thegrinders. In the mare, where the former are absent, the space is larger,being limited in front by the corner incisors. The bars are covered by athin, sensitive membrane, on which the bit rests, and are frequently theseat of injury in pullers, often resulting in death and sloughing of aportion of the jaw-bone. They vary in form in different animals, in somethe edge of the bone is sharp and in others rounded. In the formercondition the pressure of the bit on the part is more severe in its effectsthan in the latter, and the difference in the mouths of horses is in a largemeasure due to this cause. As the result of bad breaking and unskilfulriding the bars frequently become callous, and the natural sensitiveness
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Fig. 3.—Portion of Lower Jaw,showing Tongue, &c. B, Circumvallate Papillae,c. Fungiform Papilla?. D, Tongue. E, Bar or Interdental Space. 1, Canine Tooth. 3, Lateral Incisor. 2, Corner Incisor. 4, Central Incisor. THE HEAD 7 on which the tractability of the horse depends is bhmted, or altogetherdestroyed, in which case the animal is rendered difficult to control. The Palate.—The palate consists of a thick membrane of a whitish orpale pink colour, covering the roof of the mouth. The front, and by far thelarger portion, is known as the hard palate (fig. 5), in consequence of thedense nature of the tissues composing it. Here it presents a number of

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