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    it occurs in a tooth apparently sound , it is to be referred to inflammatory action going on in the tooth , and which action is most probably destroying its internal structure at the same time ; or it is a sympathetic affection , occasioned by nervous irritation . "—pp . 86—88 . A description of natural phenomena is frequently graphic

    from its very truth . Thus , the author says , sometimes the pain is diffused , and occupies the whole jaw !"—or , says he , " it wanders from one tooth to another "—remorseless perambulator!— " in which cases we may consider it to he a rheumatic affection . "

    The author enumerates some of the remedies which have often been found efficacious in removing the pain ; such as aether ; the essential oils of nutmeg , cloves , thyme , cajeput ; the mineral acids , opium , camphor , alum , &c , but very properly adds , that some of these should be used with great caution , or they may do serious mischief . He considers the application of leeches to the gums , far safer .

    " As topical remedies , perhaps the following may be recommended as those least injurious , and , at the same time , the most generally successful : —

    Opium in a small pill . The same with camphor . The same with nitrate of potass . Laudanum dropped on a pledget of lint or cotton and applied to the carious part , or rubbed on the teeth and gum with the ringer . Alum - - - 1 dram . Sweet ' pirit of nitre - ^ oz . Or , Nitrate of silver - - 1 grain . Distilled water - - 1 dram , applied frequently to the cavity on lint or cotton .

    It may be as well to give * a trial to these and similar prescriptions , but in many cases we are quite sure they will do no good at all . If the tooth be not too far " gone , " the carious part should be taken away , and the aperture stopped . But as to what the tooth should be stopped with—whether a mineral , a metal , an earth , or a terro-inetallic substance—there lies the difficulty of determining for the best . The author , who is a

    surgeon dentist , and we believe in extensive practice , very naturally recommends a composition of his own ; but of its merits our experience dots not enable us to pronounce an opinion . We are somewhat disposed 1 o fancy , however , that the composition which will \) v admirably adapted < o certain constitutions and certain cases , will not be at all suitable to

    different constitutions and different oases , nor perhaps to the same constitution under different circumstances or states of the case . " The Herman homoeopathic system of medicine , which has lately attracted a good deal of attention in this country , has been applied

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    SS 4 . Dental Surgery .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 284, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/20/