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cutting pincers, sometimes to instruments that are used for
extracting the teeth, or to flat scissors, straight or curved, to
gouges, &c. all according to circumstances. In all these cas-
es the principal cause of the malady should be removed at
the time when it is' possible to do so. Equal attention should
be given to the positive state of the bone, and not to make a
useless compromise, or expose it for want of attention to the
action of the air or other impressions that might prove hurt-
ful to it."
I will give the following which is mentioned by Mr.
Koecker.

Case*

The following is a letter which was handed to me by Miss
B , Manchester street, London, in the beginning of the
month of May 1825. The history it gives, is perhaps one of
the most distressing cases of its kind, concerning a lady of
great respectability and rank in Scotland, of about thirty-
eight years of age. Its contents indeed are not less re-
markable for the manner in which they display the uncom-
mon fortitude of the unhappy sufferer, than for the striking
confirmation which they give of the facts which I have de-
tailed in the foregoing chapter, as well as of the description
I have given respecting the present state of dental surgery.
Considering this evidence as most useful and important, 1
beo- to submit to the reader, the whole of the fair sufferer's
most interesting and affecting communication.

Koecker, Part I. pages 111 to 117.