A treatise on the diseases and surgical operations of the mouth, and parts adjacent : with notes on interesting cases, ancient and modern / by M. Jourdain ; translated from the last French edition.

  • Jourdain, M. (Anselme Louis Bernard Bréchillet), 1734-1816.
Date:
1851
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    softened, and in the centre of the tumor was a fistula through ■which I detected several hard bodies which I conjectured to be roots of teeth. The patient had a good constitution, excellent health, and was in his prime. I cut down, by a circular in- cision, to the roots, imbedded in the tumor, and without much difficulty removed four. On the third day my appliance for the arrest of the hemorrhage came away, and I found that the wound showed a disposition to renewed bleeding and fungous growth. With the advice of M. Petit, I concluded to apply the actual cautery, and found it to answer my expectation, con- joined, as it was, with detergent injections. Portions of the bone exfoliated, and in three or four months, the wound was in the best possible condition. I closed the cure by the use of a healing excitant gargle. Case III.—(from Garengeot.)—Ayoung woman, continually exposed from the nature of her occupation to injuries, suddenly experienced a very cold sensation in the left cheek, followed by swelling. The superior molares of that side became painful, loosened, and at intervals fell out; keen and lancinating pains supervened, the jaw was monstrously swollen, the face much deformed, and the cheek, nose and upper lip distended; the mouth was thrown to the right side, and a bluish colored mush- room growth about the size of an olive projected from it. M. Garengeot being consulted, remarked that this olive shaped fungus originated from the alveoli of the lost teeth; that the left vault of the palate was swollen, the superior and anterior part of the maxillary bone carnified ; that the sinus was filled with carcinomatous excrescences, and that the left nasal bone had also commenced to become tumid and carnified. The ex- crescences of the sinus were removed as completely as was possible by M. Garengeot; and, from the patient's repugnance to cautery, escharotics were used, but to no purpose. At length the patient consented to the use of the hot iron, which was ap- plied at various times for a month. This, with detergent gar- gles reduced the swelling, restored the palate nearly to its former condition, and effected a complete cure. I pass now from these simpler forms to the more malignant