The gums : with late discoveries on their structure, growth, connections, diseases, and sympathies / by George Waite.

Date:
1835
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Credit: The gums : with late discoveries on their structure, growth, connections, diseases, and sympathies / by George Waite. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ing with agony, when even a delicate handkerchief may have had contaction with a tooth. Let the physiologist watch the muscles of expression when any harsh sub- stance may have rubbed the enamel of a tooth belonging to such a constitution. Let him go further, and even name to a person of extreme sensibility the circumstance of a substance of a harsh nature touching the enamel, and he will perceive on the face an involuntary shiver. On the other hand, we meet with persons living in the open air, and of hardy habits, whose teeth are outwardly unpossessed of sensibihty. Oh fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint Agricolas, quibus ipsa, procul discordibus armis, Fundit humo facilem victum justissima tellus ! All this will lead us to the vast import of the doctrines of neurology, and at the same time deeply into the laws of sensibility, if we wish for a thorough knowledge of the mouth. - In doctrines which have lately been propagated, many curious cases are on record of paralysis of certain nerves being caused by a pressure on others. There is a celebrated case known in London of pres- sure of the maxillary nerves causing paralysis of the leg. I saw a case in Paris which was more comprehen- sible ; this was paralysis of the arm. I am indebted to my talented friend, Mr. Hunt, of Lower Brook Street for two cases where there also existed paralysis by pressure on the maxillary nerves.