[The dictionary of surgery:] or the young surgeon's pocket assistant / [Benjamin Lara].

  • Lara, Benjamin, 1770?-1848
Date:
[1796?]
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    Draw the laft tooth but one ; and if rotten, draw the next on each fide it, then through their fockets make a perforation into the antrum with a large awl; the matter being difeharged, the cure may be finifhed by inje6ting a mixture of aq. calcis, tindl. myrrh, and mel rofae twice a day into the cavity, and re- taining it-with a tent. See Gooch's Cafes and Re- marks, in which an extraordinary inftance is related, with the ingenious and fuccefsful mode of treatment. Mr. Jolm Hmtcr propofed to effedt the cure thus : ift, if the difeafe is known before the deftru6lion of the fore part of the bone, make an opening through the partition, between the antrum and the nofe ; or, ^dly, by drawing a tooth, as above: the latter method he prefers. Vide Bell's Surgery, vol. iv. p. 209; and Kirkland^ Medical Surgery, vol. ii. p. 150. Abscess of the Anus, A large quantity of fat fills up the cavity on each fide ©f the anus, and is the feat of this diforder. The caufes are various, as contujions^ wounds^ inflam- mations^ difficult labour^ hard ridings a dyfentery^ the \ •venereal d/feafe^ &c. Abfeeffes fometimes are fuddenly formed in this part; at others, they advance very fiowly. In thefirji caft\ the appearances are in the beginning like thole of a common boil; but the fymptoms foon increafe, and quickly proceed to a more formidable date. In the latieTy though the fuppuration makes but little progrefs, the pain and tumour fufiice to determine the nature of the complaint. The pus, whether it makes its way through the ikin or through the inteftines, is frequently fo tedious in its paflage, that the adjacent fat is more or lefs corroded, and rendered fanious, whence finufes are formed of different fhapes and fizes. Sometimes the maturation is extended on every fide, rendering the cure both difficult and uncertain. When abfcejfes in