STOPPING AN ELEPHANT’S TOOTH.
A performing elephant in Paris has had the toothache, and suffered such pain and discomfort with it that the veterinary surgeon in attendance called in an efficient dentist to stop the decayed molar. Professor Valadon, who performed the operation, drilled the cavity to the depth of three inches. For this purpose such large and powerful instruments had to be applied as had never previously assisted in an undertaking of such proportions. When drilled, the hole was filled with a composition, and the tooth thus effectually stopped. Man is not the only animal who is physically degenerating. Lions may be going in for artificial manes before long and hyenas for false smiles.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue III, 19 January 1895, Page 56
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115STOPPING AN ELEPHANT’S TOOTH. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue III, 19 January 1895, Page 56
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