Perry's Treatise on the prevention and cure of the tooth-ache : with directions for preserving the teeth and gums from disease and discolouration to the latest period of life : also, instructions to mothers on the management and cutting of teeth in children.

  • Perry, Mr.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Perry's Treatise on the prevention and cure of the tooth-ache : with directions for preserving the teeth and gums from disease and discolouration to the latest period of life : also, instructions to mothers on the management and cutting of teeth in children. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    added to M'hich, the properties of the lead are very injurious to the system. DISEASES OF THE ANTRUM MAXILLARE, or TIC DOULOUREUX. A cavity in the upper maxillary bone has communication with the cavity of the nose, through which a membrane passes ; in this cavity an inflammation sometimes takes place, which may be occasioned by diseased teeth, or the stumps of decayed teeth, also when the teeth are quite sound. The pain arising from this inflammation is always very severe, and is mistaken for the tic douloureux ; this inflammation may be produced by a blow on the cheek, by the fang of a tooth entering the antrum, or by caries in the teeth. The pain extends to the forehead, and a nervous throbbing on the cheek, chiefly confined to three teeth on each side of the upper jaw; viz. the two bicuspides, and the first molaris. When this aflfection is not properly attended to, the eye sometimes is closed on the affected side, ulceration and fetid discharges succeed, the bongs are injured, polypus or can- cer follow, and the poor distracted sufferer eventually sinks under the disease. DISEASES OF THE GUMS. The gums are very vascular, and cover the sockets or alveolar processes of the jaws ; they possess considerable powers of con- tractibility, and when in a healthy state adhere closely to the teeth, but when affected by cold, they become thickened, loose, spongy, and inflamed, and the slightest touch causes extreme pain. The gums of old persons who have lost their teeth grow insensible of pain, and remarkably hard. The gums are subject to several diseases, occasioned generally by faulty teeth; as swellings, boils, abscesses and ulcers ; where the fangs of the teeth are diseased, inflammation extends along the jaw, pus is formed, which at last bursting, discharges most offensive matter. When the teeth of wisdom, as they are called, cause inflam- mation, the whole of that side of the cheek, jaw, and neck suffer considerably; the eye is sometimes quite closed, nor can the
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