Page 90 - An essay on the diseasesof the jaws, and their treatment

68 APPENDIX. In none of the cases contained in these tables have I taken any notice of the results of the treatment. I commenced on the plan of stating the issue of each case, but I found it so impossible to get at any account of the ultimate result of many of them, and especially such as had been the subjects of the operation of exci- sion, that, being unable to give satisfactory statements throughout on that head, I declined entering on it at all, and preferred resting the experimental proof of the correctness of the treatment recom- mended in this essay, to the results exhibited in the body of the work. (See Note, p. 46.) My chief object in collecting these cases, moreover, was to bring together as many as would furnish sound inferences as to the causes of the disease, and in this, I hope, I have not been unsuccessful. The only arrangement that I have attempted, is the placing together of the different cases treated by the same surgeon, in whatever publication recorded, with the view of avoiding con- fusion. The numbers are added for the sake of reference.