Diseases incident to the first dentition / by James W. White.

  • White, James W.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Diseases incident to the first dentition / by James W. White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Toronto, Harry A Abbott Dentistry Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harry A Abbott Dentistry Library, University of Toronto.

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    vomiting, and sometimes death results from abdominal complications. The abandonment of improper food and the substitution of proper ali- mentation are first necessary, following with remedies addressed to the correction of the disordered condition of the alimentary canal, and astringent applications locally. In any of these varieties of disease in the mucous membrane of the mouth the employment of solutions of the sulphite of sodium and of ])henol sodique, of strength according to indi- cations—say, as in the following formulae—promises favorable results so far as local treatment is concerned : I^. Phenol sodique, fsss; Glycerini, Aquffi, ud, fgiss. M. I^. Sodii sulphitis, gr. xxx ; Glycerini, Aqupe, iid, fsss. M. Either formula may be used on a swab every two hours. Syphilitic stomatitis requires specific treatment. Cool applications to the mouth are always agreeable and beneficial. The child may be allowed to suck small pieces of ice or the mouth may be frequently syringed Avith ice-water. Cutaneous eruptions frequently occur during the period of dentition. These may be symptomatic or idiopathic, from local or constitutional causes. Heredity, predisposition, improper food or excess in feeding, derangement of the alimentary tract, uncleanliness or too frequent bath- ing, strongly alkaline or impure soap, or too much friction in washing or drying the child, excessive swaddling and consequent heating and sweating, clothing too tightly worn or of irritating material, or made so by dyes used in its manufacture, may produce a cutaneous disease. Derangement of the nervous system, of which dentition may be the exciting cause, is accountable for a variety of cutaneous disorders; but while dental irritation may thus indirectly develop a skin disease, the treatment, except in so far as the removal or correction of the exciting cause is concerned, differs not from that which would be proper if a like disturbance of the nervous system from any other cause had resulted in a like pathological condition.