A treatise on the disorders and deformities of the teeth and gums ... with cases and experiments / By Thomas Berdmore.

  • Thomas Berdmore
Date:
1768
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Credit: A treatise on the disorders and deformities of the teeth and gums ... with cases and experiments / By Thomas Berdmore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 43 ] we may juftly dlredt our enquiries to this hidden fource, and rather affume a rational probable opinion, than adt blindly without any opinion at all. This fpecies of Tooth-ach is relie¬ ved by counter-imprejjion and fedatives. *--Acrid mafficatories, formed chiefly of the fubftances mentioned in page 39, are often of confiderable fervice 3 for the irritation which they give to the neighbouring foft parts, often di¬ verts the mind from that of the difor- dered nerve ; and perhaps the difcharge occafioned by them diredts the courfe of the fluids towards the glandular and fuperficial parts, inftead of urging the affedted nerve. * Burning the ear writh * Since the publication of this Treatife, I have received fuch flrong a flu ranees from different per¬ sons of the efficacy of this application, that I caii fcarce doubt but that good effiedts ,inay fometimes have