A treatise on the diseases and surgical operations of the mouth, and parts adjacent; with notes of interesting cases, ancient and modern / Translated from the French of M. Jourdain.

  • Anselme Jourdain
Date:
1849
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases and surgical operations of the mouth, and parts adjacent; with notes of interesting cases, ancient and modern / Translated from the French of M. Jourdain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but true scirrhus-—I speak not of simple induration of the gum, which some have thus called—demands extirpation by the knife or cautery ; caustics are objectionable. Case I.—[The description and rationale of treatment of this case, is so mixed up with the exploded notions of the old humoralists about black bile, &c. that its literal translation would be both prolix and unprofitable. It is a case of so called scirrho-cancerous tumor of the right side of the lower jaw, irregular, livid, and dischaging from some of its prominences, which were slightly painful, a fetid humor-—the patient young, and of a bilious temperament. Venesection, cautery and the other surgical remedies resorted to failed to make a cure, but kept the tumor so far in check as to make its presence endura- ble, The conclusion drawn from the case, is that a firmly attach- ed cancerous tumor will most usually resist the efforts of art.] Case. II, (Felix Plater.)-—A young clerk, noticed for some four months a gradual loosening of two incisores and the canine of the lower jaw, and at last removed them readily with his fingers. Much pain was afterwards felt, some fragments of the alveolus came away and there was active ulceration of the gum and lips. I applied a suitable mouth wash—chiefly my eau verte—and in a short time the disease was perfectly healed, leaving a cicatrix, which distorted the mouth a little. The prompt and simple cure of this case proves that it was not what Plater calls it—-a cancerous ulceration. The sad issue of most cases of cancer of the lip, has been shown in a a previous section. Probably this case may be classed among the accidents following abscess of the pulp cavity, an account of which is given in another part of this work.
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