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PYORRHEA ALVEOLARIS. 41 SOME PROPERTIES. Delicate napkins should never be used in this treatment, as the principal medicinal agents employed are highly damaging to fabrics pieces of ordinary muslin will be found effective and ; economical. Before beginning treatment at any sitting, the patient's face and lips should be annointed with some oleaginous matter to protect from irritation and discoloration ; for this purpose >WL; nothing appears simpler or better than a perfumed preparation of vaseline, which may be ever at hand. An assortment of long, slender scalers have proven most effective in the hands of the writer. They have been devised and selected so as to form a set, arranged in pairs—straight, curved, simple and compound; some essentially peculiar—all in rights and lefts. All act on the hoe principle—both to and from the operator. This set is the result of developing emer- gencies under the treatment pursued by the writer, who has had arrangements made for their manufacture by a reliable firm*, and they may be ordered through any reputable dealers in dental supplies. Always have at hand a large apron of rubber or oiled silk, with which to protect the clothing of the patient from water or damaging agents of any sort. The dentist should keep a systematic and concise record of his cases of pyorrhea alveolaris, beginning with the initial examination.; otherwise a number of cases on hand at the same time, and in various stages of treatm^n+ ; ^J Icau lo hopeless confusion. *H. D. Justi & Son, Philadelphia.