A treatise on the teeth : wherein an accurate idea of their structure is given : the cause of their decay pointed out and : their various diseases enumerated ... / by Barth. Ruspini.

Date:
M.DCC.LXXXIV [1784]
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Credit: A treatise on the teeth : wherein an accurate idea of their structure is given : the cause of their decay pointed out and : their various diseases enumerated ... / by Barth. Ruspini. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    -be destroyed, but the Teeth alfo. I have remarked, that fat perfons are more fubjedt: to this diforder than thofe of a meagre con- ftitution, on account of their having a greater quantity of humours 3 the fore-parts of the incifores, caniniy and fmal], grinders, towards the root, are moft liable to be affefted with it3 they grow of a brownifh colour, and in proportion as the diforder either increafes or declines, they affume ^ different ^appearance. Suppuration frequently happens in thofe gums where the fockets are wanting. The gum being, as well as the focket, diverted of theperiojleum, and confequently not able to adhere, is, by being left to itfelf, and expofed to the air, affeerted with little ulcers, that will loon occafion fuppuratlon 3 and therefore it becomes neceftary (in order to avoid more dangerous confequences) to cut pff that part of the gum which is left un- attach-