A DOG WITH FALSE TEETH.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 134, 3 December 1910, Page 10

A DOG WITH FALSE TEETH.

A French inventor has taken out a patent for providing fowls with eyeglasses, "and presently we shall' hear (tays an exchange) that they have been given double vision to assist them in the process of laying eggs. But these mechanical de-vices for birds and animals are by no means new. We have- heard before of cows wh!& wore spectacles, and it was an American who hit on the device of tinting them green. About twelve years ago a dentist in the West End of London provided a dog with a set of false teeth. The operation took ten days of difficult work. The animal was first of all chloroformed, then models of its mouth were taken, metal dies were cast, and plates made t^ fit each jaw. In the end the fortunate animal was able to crunch bones to powder as easily as any of his fellow-canines. One of the animal's pups was afterwards sold to the Princess of Wales, now the Queen Mother. Dr. Cavines, a veterinary surgeon of Atlanta, once performed the unusual surgical operation of trepanning a lion's skull which had been fraotured in a terrific fight with another of its species. The king of the forest was rendered insensible by ether, and then bcrujld feet and head. An incision was made in the skull, and, the crushed bone was raised. The animal felt some pain, and lashed its "tail, but in the end the operation was entirely successful.