Miscellany. [Volume: 2, Issue: 6, January, 1861, pp. 355-360]

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THE DENTAL COSMOS.

facial artery had only in the last week been enlarged. His great aunt died
of cancer of the throat, (sufficiently proved;) but no other relative was
known to have had cancer. He never had any syphilis or well-marked
stru ma."
After an ineffectual effort to remove the disease by constitutional treatment with iodide of potassium, the part was excised, the troublesome
symptoms subsided, the patient recovered, and is still in good health
seven years after the operation.
" Caroline C., aged thirty-five, a married woman, and the mother of
three children, was admitted, February, 1855, into Middlesex Hospital,
under the care of MR. DE MORGAN. She was subject to dyspepsia; but
during the last few years she had been in rather better health. She had
broken teeth on the right side of her mouth, which had irritated the
tongue. Two years before her admission she noticed that her tongue was
sore, and a year ago a lump began to form in it. Mr.*De Morgan removed the right side and tip of the tongue by ligature. IIe made an
incision in the median line beneath the jaw, and dissected his way upward,
and then, having passed the ligature, tied it over a wooden bridge, which
was fixed as a sort of tourniquet. In ten days or a fortnight it had separated. On March nineteenth both the wound below the jaw and that of
the tongue were quite healed. There was then, however, suspicious hardening about the cicatrix. The disease soon afterward returned in the
stunip, and in the course of a few months the woman died. "
"Daniel H., aged forty-six, was admitted, November 2d, 1860, into St.
Thomas's Hospital, under the care of MR. McMuRDo. He stated that
twelve months ago he experienced a soreness of his tongue on the left
side, which he imagined was due to irritation of some decayed teeth.
Several had been removed in consequence, but nothing was done for the
tongue. The ulcer in the latter grew more painful, and five months ago
the glands below the jaw began to enlarge. There is at present an ulcer
on the left and under side of the tongue. This half of the tongue is hardened, swollen, and very painful; and he speaks with great difficulty from
pain in moving the tongue, which is also not able to be much moved from
being swollen, and tied down by the ulceration and induration. He suffers
a great deal of pain. His health has generally been good, and he says
that, except for the local distress, he feels well. He is, however, very
sallow, haggard, and emaciated."
Further illustration of the operation of the etiological law just referred
to in the preceding, is afforded by a case of eclampsia, reported in the
Medical and Surgical Reporter, under the treatment of DR. S. W.
BUTLER, in the Philadelphia Hospital, which was excited apparently by
the extraction of a tooth, as, according to the history given by the patient,
a, female, aged twenty, the " epileptiform convulsions first came on when
sixteen years of age, in a dentist's office, after having a tooth extracted.
She continued from that time to have them very frequently, often several
times a day."
The following account of a somewhat rare zoological specimen is given
by the Med. Times and GCz.: "A young male example of a very scarce
and little-known animal of the swine family-the babirussa-has just been
received by the Zoological Society, and is now placed in their gardens in
the Regent's Park. The adult babirussa is remarkable for the extraordinary development of his tusks, which turn upward and backward, and form