A treatise on dentistry : explaining the diseases of the teeth and gums, with the most effectual means of prevention and remedy : to which is added, Dentition : with rules to be observed during that interesting period / by B.T. Longbothom, surgeon dentist.

  • Longbothom, B. T.
Date:
1802
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Credit: A treatise on dentistry : explaining the diseases of the teeth and gums, with the most effectual means of prevention and remedy : to which is added, Dentition : with rules to be observed during that interesting period / by B.T. Longbothom, surgeon dentist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thereto, but never found ufe for them, unlefs in very fevere trials of the diforder. Tender parents are much alarmed by the fymptoms of the convul- fions leaving ; which I am forced to acknowledge too nearly refemble thofe of death. Thefe once over, care mult be taken to relax the fyftem, which may be done by a little fena, manna, or emetic tartar, mixed in diftilled water, the proportion, fix gr. of the former to three oz. of the latter. A tea fpoonful is fufficient, if it pukes repeat it in twelve hours, if the ficknefs is flight, repeat it in fix ; where the fever runs very high, delirium will fometimes follow ; a blifter applied to the back is then proper, taking care it be not too large, and when the fymptoms difappear, bleeding with leeches, if they can be had, will prove a good preventative to the diforder's returning. I forget now the irnmediate treatife I copied the obfervation from, but 'tis dated as written, in 1788. The Author obferves, that according to the bill of mortality, the deaths in London, from the 15th of December 1778, to the 14th December 1779, were 20,420, out of which number 7261 were under two years old ; which being confider- ablv more than one-third; he proves with tolera- ble precifion, that they might with great propriety be attributed to the little attention paid them while teething, although he admits many muft have died of other diforders as well as teething*. Still juft- * Convinced that on fo interefting a fubject as the one before us, too much cannot be faid, provided it be immedi- ately derived from practice, to the obfervations already offered