Case of deformity of the mouth, after sloughing of the cheek from fever : operation and recovery / by Thomas Bryant.

  • Bryant, Thomas, 1828-1914.
Date:
[1862]
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Credit: Case of deformity of the mouth, after sloughing of the cheek from fever : operation and recovery / by Thomas Bryant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    .^2 CASE OF tr/•'■'■ '.''k >N .-< 't- -I-3 FES 92 I m h X ■ N,. ^ DEFORMITY OF THE'*'^lif-0-WlI, AfTEll SLOUGHING OF THE CHEEK FROM FEVER.^ OPERATION AND RECOVERY. By THOMAS BRYANT. The following case is recorded in these pages on account of Ihe complete success which attended the operative measures dopted for its relief, terminating, as it will be observed, in the >oerfect restoration of the mouth to its, normal position. My hanks are due to my friend Mr. Birkett for the treatment of he case, as he kindly passed it into my hands for operation. Kate B—, aet. 4, was admitted into Guy^s Hospital in the lutumn of 1859, with an extreme deformity of the mouth, and lecrosis of the right upper maxillary bone, when the following listory of the case was obtained : Five months prior to her admission she had been attacked pith typhus fever, which was followed on the fifth week by ome swelling of the face and lips, and subsequent suppuration; or this she was admitted into the parish workhouse, where she emained for two months; but as her face was still swollen nvo months subsequently, and her health was bad, she was •rought to Guy^s. When admitted, an examination readily evealed the fact that the upper jaw was perfectly necrotic;