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the others. He extracted these two, which cured this girl
in twenty-four hours, of a malady that had continued for five
years.

Concluding Remarks upon tlw Sympathy of tJie General Sys-
tem with Diseased Teeth, and the Agency of these in Pro-
ducing General Disease.

I have already protracted the consideration of this subject
much beyond what I at first anticipated, and yet I do not
find myself at the end of it. Much more may be said than
what has been said upon it, and many more cases might be
adduced. As it is my desire to render this work of the first
practical utility, and to present to the medical reader all that
I have seen in my own practice, or have read upon it in the
works of others, which may be useful, I still beg his attention
to several observations and cases more.
Dr. Rush makes the following observations upon it :* " I
have been made happy by discovering that I have only added
to the observations of other physicians, in pointing out a con-
nexion between the extraction of decayed and diseased
teeth, and the cure of general diseases. Several cases of
the efficiency of that remedy in relieving head-ach and ver-
tigo, are mentioned by Dr. Darwin. Dr. Gater relates, that
M. Petit, a celebrated French surgeon, had often cured in-
termittent fevers, which had resisted the bark for months,
and even years, by this prescription ; and he quotes from his
work two cases, the one of consumption, the other of ver-
tigo, both of long continuance, which were suddenly cured

Koecker, pages 119, 120.