A practical treatise on the diseases of the teeth : intended as a supplement to the natural history of those parts / by John Hunter.

  • Hunter, John, 1728-1793.
Date:
MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]
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Credit: A practical treatise on the diseases of the teeth : intended as a supplement to the natural history of those parts / by John Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for inftance Cold, wherefore they are more trouble- fome commonly in winter than in fummer. Extraneous matter entering the cavity, and touching the nerve and vefTels, will alfo bring on the pain. This pain is frequently obfcrved to be periodical ; fometimes there being a perfect intermiffion, fometimes only an abatement of it. The paroxyfm comes on once in twenty four hours ; and, for the moil part, towards the evening. The bark has therefore been tried ; but that failing, the diforder has been fufpedted 4 to be of the rheumatic kind, and treated accordingly with no better fuccefs. At length, after a more par¬ ticular examination of the Teeth, one of them has been fufpe&ed to be unfound j and, being extracted, has put an end to the diforder. This fhews how inju- c dicious it is to give medicines in fuch cafes, while the true hate of the Tooth is unknown. This difeafe is often the caufe of bad breath, more fo than any other difeafe of thofe parts ; efpecially when it has expofed the cavity of the Tooth. This moft probably arifes from the rotten part of the Tooth, . and