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by the extraction of two decayed teeth in the former, and of
two supernumerary teeth in the latter case."*
" In the second number of a late work entitled Bibliotheque
Germanique Medico Chirurgicale, published in Paris, by Dr.
Bluver and Dr. Delaroche, there is an account, by Dr. Sie-
bold, of a young woman who had been affected for several
months, with great inflammation, pain, and ulcers in her right
upper and lower jaws at the usual time of the appearance of
the catamenia, which, at that period, were always deficient
in quantity. Upon inspecting the seats of those morbid af-
fections, the doctor discovered several of the molares in both
jaws to be decayed. He directed them to be drawn ; in
consequence of which, the woman was relieved of the month-
ly disease in her mouth, and afterwards had a regular dis-
charge of her catamenia.
The dental nerves, as we have before said, are derived
from the third branch of the fifth pair ; and such is the inti-
mate connexion of this pair directly, with many parts of the
system, and indirectly, by means of the great pneumo gastric
with the lungs, stomach, and several important organs, (as
for instance, the uterus, from which cause the improper ex-
traction of a pained tooth has produced immediate abortion,)
and by means of the different ramifications of this pair, to the
ear, tongue, the eye and its integuments, eye-lashes, to the in-
teguments of the face, &c. &c. that we cannot for one instant
wonder if diseased teeth, by means of these communications
and connexions, should produce, under some states of the
system, derangements and disease in every one of these
organs.

* Recherches sur differens points de Pbysiologie, de Patuologie, et de
Therapeutique, pp. 353, 354.

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