The diseases of the human teeth : their natural history and structure : with the mode of applying artificial teeth, etc., etc. / by Joseph Fox and Chapin A. Harris ; with two hundred and fifty illustrations.

  • Fox, Joseph, 1776-1816.
Date:
1855
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Credit: The diseases of the human teeth : their natural history and structure : with the mode of applying artificial teeth, etc., etc. / by Joseph Fox and Chapin A. Harris ; with two hundred and fifty illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    became very flaccid and dark coloured; it then sloughed away in large pieces, so that a cure was effected without any other operation. Sometimes tumours arise from the gums without there being any diseased tooth, or any evident cause: these are of a much firmer texture than those above described, frequently being of the same consistence as the gums, when in a healthy state. They are very vascular, and the treatment has always been considered as extremely troublesome: the usual mode adopted for removing them has been that of exci- sion; this operation has generally been attended with a great loss of blood, to stop which, as Mr. Hunter observes, it is often necessary to apply the actual cautery, for arteries going to increased parts are themselves increased, and also become diseased, and have not the contractile power of a sound artery. A great hemorrhage from the gums, or any part of the mouth, must always be regarded as alarming, on account of the impossibility of discovering and securing any principal branch of the artery; or, if the bleeding should be from a number of small vessels, the difficulty of applying pressure with advantage is so very great, that recourse must always be had to more powerful agents. Mr. Hunter also remarks, that these excrescences are liable to grow again, after the operation of excision; and mentions, that they have been removed six times, and have as often been reproduced; which he attributes to a cancerous disposition. On these accounts, I determined some years since, that, if any cases of this kind should ever come under my care, I would attempt their removal by means of ligatures. The first case, in which I was consulted, was a lady of about forty years of age, who had several of the teeth on the right side of the upper jaw extracted when she was a