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doubt this caries was the
sole cause of her head-ach : in
fine, I thought she ought to have them extracted.
She op-
posed my advice ; but having observed it was in conformity
to that of her physician, she permitted me, inconsequence, to
draw two. The pain was not entirely taken away by their
extraction. She called upon me five days after to take out
the third : this was the last great molar tooth of the upper
jaw, which I extracted for her. The pain immediately left
her, and since that time this lady has never felt any pain in
the head or teeth."

Inveterate Head-ach cured by the extraction of several roots
of carious teeth.*
A lady was affected continually with a very cruel pain,
which occupied the left side of the head : the violence of
the pain being worse principally in cold and wet weather.
She had used, by the advice of physicians, many different,
remedies, internally as well as externally, but always without
success. At the last, I was called to her. I examined with
care all the causes of her malady.
I was apprised by her,
that four years before, she had been afflicted for the space of
six months, with a very severe pain of the teeth on the
left
jaw ; since then this pain was a little dissipated, but then
there was another, remaining of the head of the same side.
I conjectured from what was said that the actual head-ach
was caused by the roots of spoiled teeth. After having ex-
amined her jaw, I really found in the upper jaw, four corrod-
ed teeth, wherein the roots were deeply buried. I advised
her to have them extracted : she readily consented. Then I
prescribed the most convenient remedies. I purged her
as much as was necessary. The day following the pur-
gation, cupping glasses were applied to the nape of the neck

* Jourdain, Tome I, pages, 482, 483.