The natural history and diseases, of the human teeth / [Joseph Fox].

  • Joseph Fox
Date:
1833
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Credit: The natural history and diseases, of the human teeth / [Joseph Fox]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    enable it to pass through. This operation ought always to be had recourse to in the first instance, and then other remedies should be applied according to the various symptoms which may appear. When there is fever, the antiphlogistic regimen must be adopted. The bowels should be evacuated. The best medi- cine for children is calomel, which may be combined with rhubarb or scammony ; or some of the neutral salts may be exhibited. After these, saline draughts or gentle antimonials should be administered, in order to produce a determination to the skin. If the head should be much affected, a blister to the nape of the neck would be very useful. In all cases of rash, or eruptions, the child should be kept warm, and be particularly preserved from taking cold, as great danger often follows the sudden dis- appearance of any affection of the skin. If this should happen, the child should be put into the warm bath, and some medicines administered to produce diaphoresis; also attention is to be paid to the bowels, that no costiveness be suffered. In general, slight eruptions are to be regarded as beneficial, and particularly those occurring behind the ears, attended with moderate discharge. In cases of difficult dentition, when no sore ear has arisen spontane- M
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