A manual of dental economy, or practical instruction on the physiology and treatment of teeth, in order to check their diseases, repair their injuries, and insure their preservation / by Charles S. Rowell.

  • Rowell, Charles S.
Date:
1855
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Credit: A manual of dental economy, or practical instruction on the physiology and treatment of teeth, in order to check their diseases, repair their injuries, and insure their preservation / by Charles S. Rowell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    often happens, says Dr. Fitch, the dentist, that painful teeth, and those affected with complicated caries, are the cause of great pain and inflammation in the ear, so as to affect its proper functions. So great is the sympathy between the nerves of the teeth and of the ear, that remedies applied to the latter will relieve pain in the former. Laudanum, dropped upon a lock of cotton, and introduced into the ear, will often relieve the tooth-ache. This is quite a popular remedy ; and it is upon the same prin- ciple, or a knowledge of the same facts, that the actual cautery has been applied to the anti- helix of the ear to relieve painful teeth. Indeed, every dentist of experience must have become familiar with the fact that agonizing and dangerous suppurations in the ear are fre- quently occasioned by carious molar teeth, and entirely cured by their extraction. Nor is it less clearly established, by innumerable concur- rent cases, that inveterate inflammations and opthalmic opacities of the eye, often termi- nating in utter deprivation of sight, have had the same common origin. Medical journals abound with such cases, although it may be fairly presumed that very few of the actual number are ever recorded.