Periscope of Medical and General Science in their Relations to Dentistry. [Volume: 2, Issue: 4, November, 1860, pp. 234-240]

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THE DENTAL COSMOS.

part pricked. These signs of returning vitality steadily augmented, and
by the end of the third month after the operation, the graft was deemed to
possess sufficient independent vigor to shift for itself; and the little isthmus being declared unnecessary, the flap was isolated, and its cut extremity
turned down toward the inner angle of the eye, where the scar hitherto
had purposely been left uncovered. The deformity was thus completely
remedied, and the cure most successful. M. Jobert, in his remarks upon
the way in which the vascular and nervous relations are established between tissues thus artificially brought into contact, draws especial attention to the consecutive advance of the two functions, the one in the wake
of the other; the new circulation entailing the new innervation, and the
perfect development of the former being immediately followed up by a
similar progress in the latter. The author also expresses it as his opinion, that the mode in which the correct sensibility of the engrafted tissue
is restored after transplantation by means of its communications with the
part into which it is deposited, is a proof of the unity and identity of the
sensitive function all over the body."-(Paris Correspondent of Lancet.)
"Neuralgia with Deafness, cured instantaneously by the Extraction of
a Tooth.-M. ED. VAUTIER records (Gaz. des Hopit., 14 June, 1860,)
a case of this. The subject of it was a very nervous, slender woman,
who had suffered for about four months with intense neuralgic pains,
radiating through almost all the teeth, and also the muscles of the anterior region of the left side of the head. There was constant lachrymation
of the left eye, and from the moment of the attack complete deafness in
the ear of the same side. A number of physicians had been consulted,
and sulphate of quinia, flying blisters, and atropia, in succession, tried
without giving relief.
"When seen by Dr. B. she was suffering severely; had long been
deprived of sleep, and could not chew her food. The teeth were examined
with care, but no one could be found carious. The wisdom tooth on the
left side seemed, however, slightly painful on being touched, and loose.
She was advised to have this tooth extracted, but with some temper
refused. However, some days afterwards, her physician again advising
it, she consented, and the tooth was extracted by M. Vautier. The
pains at once ceased, and her hearing was restored. A month has since
elapsed without any return of her complaint. She seems to be permanently cured.-Journal de Med. de Bordeaux, June, 1860."-(American
Journal of Medical Sciences, October, 1860.)
"Injury to the Face from the Kick of a Horse. By J. S. CONKEY,
M.D., of Antwerp, N. Y.-December 22, 1857, I was called to see Mr.
J. R., aged fifty-six years, who had been badly injured by a kick from a
horse. Found him bleeding profusely from the anterior and posterior
nares; his nose completely flattened to his face, the ossa nasi being broken
into fragments. On examining the case more closely, I found a fracture
of the superior maxillary bone, extending from where the nose and upper
lip meet to the throat, fracturing the septum narium and sphenoid bone,
thus separating the whole palatine arch; which, including all the teeth,
could be easily and freely moved about in the mouth.
"After adjusting the nasal bones, and properly securing them in place,
I fitted a piece of soft wood to the front teeth, letting the ends project a
little from each corner of the mouth. To this piece of wood I applied a