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the surface, one oui^ht ro use gold or, srill hetrer, riu-foil. I'lie |iul|i
ought al\va\s to he clestr()\ ed pre\i()usl\' h\ cauterization.
Bell advises great caution in carr\ ing out transplantation, it having heen
proved b\- many examples that contagious maladies of a serious nature
mav easiU' be communicated in tliis way from one individual to another/
In the case ot a \()ung woman who had an upper mcisor transplanted,
Watson obscr\ed undoubted s\ iiiptoms of s\ philitic infection with super-
vening accidents of exceptional gravit\ which in spite of careful treatment
,
ended in death.
Hunter also relates having observed, in seven cases of transplanta-
tion, ver\- serious accidents which, however, he did not believe to be
owing to s\philis, although bearing a certain s\ niptomatic resemblance
to it. Contrariwise, the well-known German surgeon Richter not only
admitted the possibility of transmittmg s\'philis through a transj")lanted
tooth, but even that the transplantation of an altogether health\ tooth
from the mouth of a person undoubtedly free from syphilis might be
followed by serious accidents of a syphilitic nature, and this because the
possible existence of a latent syphilis in the person to whose mouth the
tooth was transplanted cannot be excluded; in which case the abnormal
stimulus exercised by the transplanted tooth might very well give rise
to s\philitic manifestations. Therefore, the fact that the person who
furnished the tooth was and continued to be in a state of perfect health
(as precisely in the case cited by Watson) would not be sufficient proof
that the accidents ensumg on the transplantation might not be of a
syphilitic nature.
Lettson also observed, in certain cases of transplantation, accidents
of more or less gravity which he held to be due to syphilis, calling,
however, to mind a case cited by Kuhn, of Philadelphia, where the
possibility of syphilis was not to be thought of, as the morbid symptoms
disappeared entirely, without any treatment, as soon as the transplanted
tooth was removed.^
August G. Richter, the above-named German surgeon, in those
portions of his work dedicated to dental affections and diseases of High-
more's antrum, treated these subjects with admirable clearness and order,
without contributing, however, an\thing original to the development of
dental surgery.^
Nicholas Dubois dh Chemant, in 1788, of whom we shall later have
occasion to speak again, published in Paris his Hrst pamphlet on mineral
' Benjamin Bell, System of Surgery, 1783 to 1787, vol. in.
- Medical Transactions of the College of Physicians of London, 1783, vol. iii, p. 325.
^ Memoirs of the London Medical Society, 1787, vol. i.
* August Gottlieb Richter, Anfangsgriinde der Wundar/.ncikunst, vol. ii (1787) and vol.
iv(i797).
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the surface, one oui^ht ro use gold or, srill hetrer, riu-foil. I'lie |iul|i
ought al\va\s to he clestr()\ ed pre\i()usl\' h\ cauterization.
Bell advises great caution in carr\ ing out transplantation, it having heen
proved b\- many examples that contagious maladies of a serious nature
mav easiU' be communicated in tliis way from one individual to another/
In the case ot a \()ung woman who had an upper mcisor transplanted,
Watson obscr\ed undoubted s\ iiiptoms of s\ philitic infection with super-
vening accidents of exceptional gravit\ which in spite of careful treatment
,
ended in death.
Hunter also relates having observed, in seven cases of transplanta-
tion, ver\- serious accidents which, however, he did not believe to be
owing to s\philis, although bearing a certain s\ niptomatic resemblance
to it. Contrariwise, the well-known German surgeon Richter not only
admitted the possibility of transmittmg s\'philis through a transj")lanted
tooth, but even that the transplantation of an altogether health\ tooth
from the mouth of a person undoubtedly free from syphilis might be
followed by serious accidents of a syphilitic nature, and this because the
possible existence of a latent syphilis in the person to whose mouth the
tooth was transplanted cannot be excluded; in which case the abnormal
stimulus exercised by the transplanted tooth might very well give rise
to s\philitic manifestations. Therefore, the fact that the person who
furnished the tooth was and continued to be in a state of perfect health
(as precisely in the case cited by Watson) would not be sufficient proof
that the accidents ensumg on the transplantation might not be of a
syphilitic nature.
Lettson also observed, in certain cases of transplantation, accidents
of more or less gravity which he held to be due to syphilis, calling,
however, to mind a case cited by Kuhn, of Philadelphia, where the
possibility of syphilis was not to be thought of, as the morbid symptoms
disappeared entirely, without any treatment, as soon as the transplanted
tooth was removed.^
August G. Richter, the above-named German surgeon, in those
portions of his work dedicated to dental affections and diseases of High-
more's antrum, treated these subjects with admirable clearness and order,
without contributing, however, an\thing original to the development of
dental surgery.^
Nicholas Dubois dh Chemant, in 1788, of whom we shall later have
occasion to speak again, published in Paris his Hrst pamphlet on mineral
' Benjamin Bell, System of Surgery, 1783 to 1787, vol. in.
- Medical Transactions of the College of Physicians of London, 1783, vol. iii, p. 325.
^ Memoirs of the London Medical Society, 1787, vol. i.
* August Gottlieb Richter, Anfangsgriinde der Wundar/.ncikunst, vol. ii (1787) and vol.
iv(i797).
