Case of hemorrhage following the extraction of a tooth, and terminating fatally / by David Hay.

  • Hay David.
Date:
[1842?]
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Credit: Case of hemorrhage following the extraction of a tooth, and terminating fatally / by David Hay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    stitution has existed, as shown from profuse bleeding from sh'ght w ounds, or mere abrasions of the surface. M. Jourdain, (dentiste,) in his Traite des Maladies et des Opera- tions B^^dmrnst Chirurgicales de la Bouche, pubhshed at Paris in 1778. torn. ii. p. 595, says, Nombre d'auteurs font mention d'hemorrhagies procurees par Textraction des dents, dont les unes ont ete arretees, et les autres ont coote la vie aux malades. Holler, (Comment. Aph. 18. 2,) fait mention dune hemorrhagie mortelle procuree par Textraction d'une dent. Plater cite un exemple semblable d'un oeuvrier en fer, mais qui en mourut. Zacutus a gue'ri une hemorrhagie terrible et desesperee, qui resistait au fer rouge, en injectant dans Talveole de la dent ex- tirpee Teniplatre galenque. FeHx Plater dit, en 1559, un Ser- rurier etait travaille d'une douleur de dent a cause d'une flux- ion; il se la fit arracher, mais on ne pouvait arreter le sang qui sortait, quoiqu'en essayat de toutes sortes de remedes, par haut, subtils rouges et echauffes; ce qui me fit juger qu'une petite ar- tere etait offensee; il ne cessa point de couler jusqu' a la niort. Observ. xxxv. hb. 4. M. Jourdain considers compression as deserving the preference over the cautery, and says, that in urgent cases where there has been considerable injury done to the socket, recourse may be had to the machine invented by M. Foucon, the uncle, and of which there is a description and representation in the 7th vol. in 12mo, of the Memoir es de VAcademie Boy ale de Chirurgie. Hemorrhage, he says, sometimes takes place after an interval of several days after the extraction of a tooth; he mentions a case in which this occurred on the oth day after the extraction of the first large molar; another in which the bleeding took place on the 3d, in consequence of the .use of irritating applications. He men- tions also a case in which the bleeding returned on the detach- ment of the eschar produced by the actual cautery. M. Duval, in a treatise published at Paris in 1802, enumerates as one des accidens de Textraction des dents, une hemorrhagie dont les suites par fois ont ete mortelles, au rapport des plu- sieurs observateurs.—Cardan, de Causis et Signis Morbor., p. 155. Felix Plater, as already quoted. S.H.de Vigiliis Bibliothec. Chirurg., p. 782. M. Duval is of opinion that this accident is fatal, in consequence of the neglect of patient or practitioner in using proper means. He probably had not met with cases in which the hemorrhagic constitution existed. He quotes from Arnaud Grilles a fatal case, and one which was saved by the use of pressure produced by the half of a bean. Arnaud Gilles' Treatise is dated 1622. In the 8th volume of the London Med.-Chiruryical Transac- tions, 1816, there is a case by Mr Blagden. Joseph Lancton had a tooth extracted while a boy; hemorrhage