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weeks all the hollow disappeared, but the swelling of the
cheek and palate, and the displacement of the nose still con-
tinued. In the course of another year and a half every ves-
tige of deformity was entirely removed. (Dubois, Bulletin
de la Faculty de Med. an 13, No. 8.
I will close this subject by two anomalous cases from the
pen of Mr. Koecker, given in his late work on diseases of the
maxilla, and one I have seen, and two from Fauchard not
connected with the antrum. I will mention the one I have
myself seen, which although I did not at that time understand
its pathology, I am now fully satisfied was occasioned by the
irritation of inflamed gums and teeth. The case occurred about
seven years ago in the town of Georgia, state of Vermont.
The subject of it was a boy of about seven years old, the
tumour appeared to take its rise from the first, permanent
grinding tooth of the under jaw, which at this time was first
passing the gum. The tumour soon after its commencement
increased very rapidly, involving all that side t)f the face,
pushing the tongue out of its place, and likewise extending
back so as to press upon the esophagus, and upper part of
the larynx of that side. The mouth was kept permanently
open, and the cheek of the same side greatly protruded, so
as finally to show one enormous mass of diseased growth.
The child sunk under the progress of the disease, I think in
about seven weeks. A great number of physicians residing
in that neighbourhood saw the case, and I believe generally
pronounced it cancerous, but I could not learn that any one
of them was able to give any satisfactory conjecture of its
cause.
I will give two cases from Fauchard of bony deposit on
the lower jaw, merely with a view to hint to the surgeon
the propriety of ascertaining the situation of the teeth in
these cases.