A system of dental surgery / by John Tomes and Charles S. Tomes.

  • Tomes, John, 1815-1895.
Date:
1897
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Credit: A system of dental surgery / by John Tomes and Charles S. Tomes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    blindne.ss wholly disappeared, though he could not distin- guish what ver}' small objects were. Dr. Einineuch (“Dublin Medical Free Press ”) suflered for fourteen years from congestion and lachrymation from one eye, and photophobia, these symptoms being aggravated by unsuitable diet; the symptoms began to amend and soon disa])pcarcd after the e.xtraction of a carious tooth. A ])atient under the care of ^Ir. Salter and ])r. Hyde Salter suflered from dimness of vision and aching pain in the eye, and likewise from facial paralysis, which rapidly became complete. This latter was clearly due to the portio dura being in- volved in plastic inflammatory product in the parotid region, due to a carious upper wisdom tooth; the eye affection may, more probably, have been refle.x, as it recurred afterward.-, w’hen a lower tooth was in fault, and was accompanieil by painful paralysis of the arm, which was unquestionably refle.x. Amaurosis may also be produced by carious teeth in a more direct manner; namely, by displacement of the ball of the eye by accumulation of pus: but these cases may be more appropriately mentioned in connection with diseases of the antrum.