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of the parietal bone on one side of the head, I have seen
produced by the second of the molares, or grinders of the un-
der jaw ; of which I shall relate the following case :
" Mrs. , about 30 years of age, was seized with great
pain about the middle of the right parietal bone, which had
continued a whole day before I saw her, and was so violent
as to threaten to occasion convulsions. Not being able to
detect a decaying tooth, or a tender one, by examination
with my eye, or by striking them with a tea-spoon, and fear-
ing bad consequences from her tendency to convulsions, I
advised her to extract the last tooth of the under jaw on the
affected side ; which was done without any good effect.
She was then directed to lose blood, and to take a brisk ca-
thartic ; and after that had operated, about sixty drops of
laudanum were given her, with large doses of bark ; by
which the pain was removed. In about a fortnight she took
a cathartic medicine by ill advice, and the pain returned with
greater violence in the same place ; and before I could arrive,
as she lived thirty miles from me, she suffered a paralytic
stroke, which affected her limbs and her face on one side,
and relieved the pain of her head. About a year after-
wards, I was again called to her, on account of a pain as
violent as before, exactly on the same part of the other par-
ietal bone. On examining her mouth, I found the second
molaris of the under jaw, on the side before affected, was
now decayed, and concluded that this tooth had occasioned
the stroke of the palsy, by the pain and consequent exertion
it had caused. On this account I earnestly entreated her to
allow the sound molaris of the same jaw opposite to the de-
cayed one, to be extracted ; which was forthwith done, and
the pain of her head immediately ceased, to the astonishment
of her attendants.
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