Lectures on certain diseases of the jaws : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1887 / by Christopher Heath, F.R.C.S.

  • Christopher Heath
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[1888?]
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Credit: Lectures on certain diseases of the jaws : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1887 / by Christopher Heath, F.R.C.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Generates^ 1:^60), several operations have been performed by French surgeons, but apparently with but little success, since in cases operated on both by the method of Esmarch and of Rizzoli reunion of the divided jaw has taken place. Thus, on February 4th, 1863, M. Boinet brought before the Society a little girl on whom he had previously performed what he terms Esmarch's operation (but which appears to have consisted in the simple division of the jaw, recommended by Rizzoli, and not the removal of a wedge of bone, as origin- ally proposed by Esmarch), and in whom the bone had reunited M. Deguise thereupon quoted a case in which he had removed, a centimetre and a half of bone with the same unsatisfactory result, and expressed a doubt whether a single successful case could be produced. On Feburary 11th, 1863, M. Deguise brought the case he had alluded to before the Society, and showed that the failure depended upon the formation of an osseous callus at the level of the resected portion. At the same meetnig M. Bauchet showed a young Syrian girl in whom contraction of the left side had taken place, together with a loss of substance of the cheek and commissure of the lips, equalling a five-franc piece in size. In this case a centi- metre and a half of the jaw was removed ; and though exten- sive suppuration and necrosis of the jaw ensued, the girl made a good recovery, and at that date (February 4:th) a very satis- factory amount of movement and power of mastication had been obtained. On July 29th, 1864, M. Verneuil communicated to the Societe de Chirurgie the histories of several cases operated upon by M. Rizzoli himself, the results of which were most satisfactory. In the first, the operation (simple division of the jaw from within the mouth) was performed in 1857, and after six years the boy w^as able to eat solid food most satisfactorily ; the second case, operated upon in the same year, was equally good. In the third case, operated upon in 1858, the mouth could not be widely opened, and the child had some difficulty in speaking. The fourth case, operated upon in 1860, was most satisfactory. M. Verneuil also mentioned a fatal case which occurred in M. ]-iizzoli's practice, and alluded to
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