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plying a fig to the gums, occasionally changing it for a crust
of bread soaked in warm milk, taking at the same time a sa-
line and opiate draught every four hours, but with just the
same effect as the preceding remedies. In short, the pain
in the teeth and face, the gums became partially ulcerated,
and in the course of six months, I was under the necessity of
extracting, at different times all the teeth in the lower jaw, ex-
cepting the four incisors, which very soon became affected in a
similar way to the rest ; these her friends would not allow
to be drawn, nor was I anxious of performing the operation,
as the removal of the others did not appear to give any per-
manent relief, excepting that the gums healed, and remained
well where the teeth had been extracted. During this time,
almost every remedy that could be thought of was tried,
such as frequent scarifying of the gums, leeches, permanent
blisters to the lower jaw and behind the ears, astringent lo-
tions, as the infusion of roses with the tincture of myrrh,
decoctions of bark, oak bark, infusion of galls, solutions
of alum, argentum nitratum, salt and water, lemon-juice,
oxymel aeruginis, borax, charcoal and soda, tepid-bath,
artificial sea-bath, and afterwards sea-bathing, seton in the
neck, issue in the arm, &c. &c. with a great many other
applications, which it would be useless to name. Internally
she had taken strong purgatives, calomel combined with anti-
mony, and afterwards continued alone in small doses to sali-
vation, solutio mineral, solut. calc. muriat. bark, with nitrous
acicl, steel, lemon-juice in large quantity, tine. opii. to the
amount of qut. GO at bed time, and repeated in small doses
during the day at short intervals, cicuta, &c. &c. prescribed
by an eminent physician in this place, without receiving little
more than slight temporary relief from any one medicine
prescribed. She has now all the teeth of the upper jaw, in
a similar way to the lower ; the palpebral of one eye has
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