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The first day after the operation, the patient referred her
pain to the throat, rather than to the parts which had been
operated upon. She had severe head-ach, which was at-
tributed in part to the shock given to the head by the strokes
of the mallet, and to the division of the dental nerves. The
needles were removed on the fifth day. On the fifteenth,
seventeenth and eighteenth, some portions of exfoliated bone
were detached. On the nineteenth, the lips could be closed'
for the first time. By the twenty-third all tumefaction had
subsided, the voice was improved, the catamenia which had
been long absent, had reappeared, and the other functions
were in a natural state. On the thirtieth the sole remaining
tooth was removed, as it interfered with mastication. Five
days later, she left the hospital in good health. The lips fell
in a little, especially the lower, but the deformity was very
slight. The voice, which had not quite recovered itself, was
daily improving.
" Dr. Regnoli concludes that though the disease should re-
turn, the operation was still proper and necessary. With-
out it, he considers that death would have been inevitable,
and he urges in its favour, that it incurred but little danger
that the practice of Dupuytren and Vacca support it—and
that the disease does not always return.
From the description of the above case, I have no hesita-
tion in positively asserting, that the mere extraction of all
dead roots and such teeth as were loose, or suffering from
complicated caries, would have been better calculated to af-
fect an expeditious and radical cure than the above extreme-
ly painful and destructive treatment."
278
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The first day after the operation, the patient referred her
pain to the throat, rather than to the parts which had been
operated upon. She had severe head-ach, which was at-
tributed in part to the shock given to the head by the strokes
of the mallet, and to the division of the dental nerves. The
needles were removed on the fifth day. On the fifteenth,
seventeenth and eighteenth, some portions of exfoliated bone
were detached. On the nineteenth, the lips could be closed'
for the first time. By the twenty-third all tumefaction had
subsided, the voice was improved, the catamenia which had
been long absent, had reappeared, and the other functions
were in a natural state. On the thirtieth the sole remaining
tooth was removed, as it interfered with mastication. Five
days later, she left the hospital in good health. The lips fell
in a little, especially the lower, but the deformity was very
slight. The voice, which had not quite recovered itself, was
daily improving.
" Dr. Regnoli concludes that though the disease should re-
turn, the operation was still proper and necessary. With-
out it, he considers that death would have been inevitable,
and he urges in its favour, that it incurred but little danger
that the practice of Dupuytren and Vacca support it—and
that the disease does not always return.
From the description of the above case, I have no hesita-
tion in positively asserting, that the mere extraction of all
dead roots and such teeth as were loose, or suffering from
complicated caries, would have been better calculated to af-
fect an expeditious and radical cure than the above extreme-
ly painful and destructive treatment."
