Page 342 - My FlipBook

340
then
and shoulders ; I directed her an apozerne, which she
took, for the space of four days, in the morning ; and the
fifth day, while she was still fasting, I extirpated these roots.
The following day she took pills ; and for the space of some
days, there was applied warm to the painful part, twice a
day, a fomentation of the flowers and leaves of bettony, the
flowers of rosemary, of chamomile, melilot, of dried red
roses, leaves of marjoram, of wormwood, aniseeds, the shav-
ings of guaiacum that has been infused with heat in red
wine. By these means the patient recovered her health.
I did not calculate on the virtues of the ingredients that
composed the fomentation, but I believe that the extraction
of the teeth, a temperate regimen, some purgatives, and a
blister might prove sufficient.

Head-ach dependent on the Teeth.*

" The late Madame the Princess of Condy, had confided
to her physicians a person under her protection, to be cured
of a head-ach she had for five years. She was bled twen-
ty times, almost successively, both in the arm and foot. Af-
ter that, having thought about bleeding her in the throat, the
Princess begged M. Petit to do it. But as he had not seen
the patient, he questioned her about her malady, and finding
nothing which appeared to warrant so much bleeding, he
examined her mouth, because the patient spoke of feeling a
weight and stiffness of the lower jaw. M. Petit found some
irregularity in the arrangement of the teeth. He counted
them, and found eighteen instead of sixteen. The second
molar tooth on each side appeared to him to have generated

Jourdajn, Tome I, page 483.