Page 206 - My FlipBook

204

this uncertainty, I asked for a lighted bougie and placed it
against the two teeth. By the reilexion of the light we as-
sured ourselves that the incisor nearest to the canine tooth
was the cause of all this malady. In fact, the enamelled
substance appeared to be wan and undulated. At length,
and for more security, I pierced the eruption, and there
came out bloody serum. The stillet traversed the maxillary
substance, and came against the root of the tooth in question,
which I extracted. We afterwards broke it ; the canal of
its root and its great cavity was filled with a very fetid black
humour. The same day the operation was performed, the
patient found himself really eased of pain, and with the as-
sistance of some emollient gargles, the malady completely
disappeared in a few days.

Observation on a Canine Tooth, and on the pus that was
formed in its cavity, which was evacuated by a perforating
trepan*

"The 12th of November, 1724, M. Tartanson, regular
Surgeon of Paris, and ancient Prevost of the Society, was
attacked with a cruel pain in the incisor and canine teeth of
the lower jaw. He called upon me to know what so sharp a
pain could proceed from, without the teeth being carious, be-
ing only a little worn at their extremities. After having ex-
amined, and touched them with my sound, I knew which one
it was, and I assured him that he had but one canine tooth
only on the right side of the same jaw, that was sensible, and
which caused him this severe pain ; which proceeded from

* Fauchard, pages 470, 471, 472, 473.