Mouth hygiene and mouth sepsis.

  • Marshall, John Sayre, 1846-1922.
Date:
1912
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    alyeolar abscess, acute gingivitis, or an acute stomatitis. Many, very many, cases of glandular enlargement located in the submaxillary and cervical regions have been referred to the writer for diagnosis and treatment, and in almost every in- stance a suppurating lesion has been found in the mouth,—most often a diseased tooth, the treatment of which from the aseptic stand-point or its extraction has been sufficient to cure the glandular en- largement. In a very few instances the mouth has shown no evidences of a sup- purative lesion. In these cases inquiry has sometimes elicited the fact of a recent attack of tonsillitis which explained the glandular enlargement. Many delicate children, who are poorly nourished, with perverted appetites, pale and pasty complexions, peevish and fret- ful in disposition, dull in mind, acutely sus- ceptible to changes in temperature and hu- midity, and with enlarged submaxillary or cervical glands, are sufferers from chronic toxaemia due to an unsanitary and septic mouth. The placing of the mouth of such a child in a hygienic condition will in a few weeks produce a marvellous change