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cases out of many that I have had the pleasure of curing,
and would here observe, that I have ever been able to cure
this disease, in every case, in which I have been allowed to
follow the principles of practice which I have here developed.
Case I.—Mrs. F , a lady, aged about 46 years,
of the first respectability, residing in the District of South-
ward Philadelphia, applied to me in the month of July, 1827,
with a very diseased state of the gums and teeth. She said,
she entirely despaired of any person being able to restore
her gums and teeth to a healthy condition ; as, although she
had applied to several of the first dentists in this city, she
had never been able to procure any treatment or remedy
which had been of any service to her ; and, indeed, one or
two dentists had told her, that her disease was incurable.
I assured her she need not despair of being perfectly cured
in a short time. Upon inquiring the length of time in which
she had been affected with this disease of the gums, I found
they had been diseased about fourteen years, and that at the
time her teeth and gums were first affected, she enjoyed
very good health, and was of a full fleshy habit, which was
to a certain degree peculiar to her family, and that four or
five years after her teeth and gums became diseased, her
general health began to suffer ; she was troubled with vari-
ous nervous affections ; her digestive organs became consid-
erably affected ; she was constantly more or less afflicted
with pain in her gums, teeth, and maxillary bones. Many of
her teeth became loose, attended with great tenderness of the
alveolar membrane, and pain in masticating her food, which
prevented the course of healthy digestion ; and from having
been of a full and fleshy habit, she had become, at the time I
saw her, very thin and spare. Also that in the time she had
had her teeth cleaned, and some of them, which had become
carious, had been plugged ; but it was evident, that these