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Cases.

* " We have an instance," says Fauchard, " in the person
of M. Holland, keeper of the Chateau de Moudon, who had
carious molar teeth on the left side of the lower jaw ; their
caries was communicated to the alveolus ; the alveolar pro-
cesses spread it to the body of the bone ; where considera-
ble deposits were formed, which placed it in a short time in
a very pitiful state. The king came to reside for some time at
the Chateau de Moudon : M. de la Peyronie was requested to
visit this patient. He found him in such a situation as obliged
him to have recourse to a capital operation in order to save
his life, and the repeated application of the potential cau-
tery."
" M. Lambert performed on M. de Barca's son, about
twenty years ago a similar cure ; he had recourse nearly to
the same means ; he was actually obliged to bring away a
part of the maxillary bone. This patient was radically
cured, and the cicatrice was but very little seen."
" These two cases are of notorious publicity ; they made
much noise, at court, and they were communicated to me by
Mr. Anel, who had seen the two patients."
I will close this chapter with the cases from Mr. Koecker's
late work, and one case of a fatal fungoid swelling of the
gums given by Mr. Hill in the Edinburgh Medical and Sur-
gical Journal, No. LXI. as follows :
f It succeeded to the extraction of a tooth in an atheletic
man, aged 52, who had some uneasiness in the socket and
adjoining parts for several weeks after the operation, but

* Fauchard, pages 248 and 249.
t The Study of Medicine, Vol. I. page 48. By J. M. Good, Boston. 1823.