Dental disease in its relation to general medicine / by J.F. Colyer ; with the assistance of Stanley Colyer.
- Frank Colyer
- Date:
- 1911
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Dental disease in its relation to general medicine / by J.F. Colyer ; with the assistance of Stanley Colyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the patient admitted had been present for twelve years. He improved rapidly on the treatment of the oral sepsis. The disease known as subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord, commonly associated with more or less profound anemia, is held at the present day to be due to a toxin. It is thought by Batten and others that the toxin, in many cases, has its origin in chronic infec- tions of the mouth and gastro-intestinal system. The late T. D. Savill held oral sepsis responsible for many cases of neurasthenia. One patient, a woman aged 32, who consulted him, showed all the symptoms of aggravated hysteria. The usual] remedies had no effect upon her until some stumps concealed beneath her artificial plate were removed, when she rapidly recovered. He believed that in a large proportion of his out-patients exhibiting nervous symptoms the cause of their trouble could be traced to pyorrhca alveolaris. (4) RHEUMATISM AND INFECTIVE ARTHRITIS. (5) DEFORMITIES OF WEAKNESS. Under the term “ Arthritis Deformans ”’ three distinct diseases may be classed, viz., osteo-arthritis (hyper- trophic arthritis), rheumatoid arthritis, and infective arthritis. The first appears to be distinct from the other two in its etiology, course, morbid anatomy and prog- nosis; and infective conditions do not play an important part in its genesis. Of the other two it is probable that rheumatoid arthritis, though often indistinguishable clinically from infective arthritis, is a definite disease ; but as wide differences of opinion exist as to its etiology it will not be dealt with further in this chapter. In infective arthritis (non-suppurative) the affected joints are generally the larger; sometimes the small](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32801889_0155.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
