A popular treatise on the teeth : containing a history of the dental art ... also a full ... account of the history of ether or lethean ... / By Mayo G. Smith.

  • Smith, Mayo G.
Date:
1848
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Credit: A popular treatise on the teeth : containing a history of the dental art ... also a full ... account of the history of ether or lethean ... / By Mayo G. Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Haemorrhage on extraction of teeth, 239-250; fatal case of, 245. Hasm orrhage diathesis, 242. Hebrews, 29. Herodotus, 17. Hippocrates, 18. Homer, 19. Injurious practices, in regard to children, 93 ; hot food and drinks, 197; use of tobacco, 197 ; breaking hard substances with the teeth, 196. Inhab itants of Siam and Sumatra, 32. Inflammation of dental pulp, 148. Irreg- ular dentition, 107. Key, 234. Lancing gums during dentition, 98. Ligatures, 282. Loose teeth, 167. Luxation of teeth, 253 ; of the jaw, 254. Maxillary bones, 35 ; rupture of the sinus, 250. Mercurial affections of the gums, 194. Monsieur Lafette's Asiatic Puzzalano, 221. Muscles of the face, head, jaw, neck, 40, 41. Natives of Prince William's Sound, Sandwich Islands, 33. Necrosis of the teeth, 163. Nerves, dental, 59; facial, 56; connection with general system, 60; to destroy sensibility of, 217. Neuralgia (tic douloureux), case by Kcecker, 80; of Mrs. G., 82; of Mrs. W., 79. Nutrition, elements of, 129 ; of young carnivori, 132 ; of graminivorous animals, 132. Odontalgia [see toothache]. Obturators,289, 290. Palate, loss of, 288. Pain, experienced after teeth are filled, 224. Pare's tooth-mullets, 231. Par vagum, 58. Present state of dental science, 24. Precautions against cold, 238; in infantile diseases attending denti- tion, 97; before extraction of teeth, 232; insertion of artificial teeth, 269; filing, 213 ; filling, 219. Qualifications required of dentists in France, Germany, and Prussia, 26, 27. Recipes, for dentifrices, elixirs, powders, &c. 176-8; Hippocrates' tooth powder, 18; lotions for diseased gums, 185; for reducing the serum and adding to the fibrin of the blood, 244; solders, 296 ; steel, 301; gold plate, 278. Eemedies, for diseases attending dentition, 95-7 ; rheumatic, sympa- thetic, acute, and chronic toothache, 152-3; for various diseases of the teeth, 163; of the gums, 182. Eheumatic affections of the face and teeth, 151; case by Dr. Rush, 84.