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DIAGNOSIS OF MOUTH AFFECTIONS. I59

become coated with a salivary deposit, and finally drop out.
Necrosis and extensive exfoliation of the bones of the jaw may
occur. Some varieties of salivary calculus will produce similar
local symptoms, especially when the general condition of the
system is unfavorable.
Treatment.—Change of diet, substituting fresh meats, soups,
nitrogenous food, and recent vegetable acids, lemon-juice, lime
juice, citric, tartaric, and acetic, and these combined with potas-
sium. Nitrate of potassium, either alone or mixed with vinegar,
as an anti-scorbutic. Arsenic and iron are of service in most
cases J also rest and quiet.
J Simple Form of Stomatitis is indicated by slightly elevated,
reddish, glistening patches on the mucous membrane, which may
coalesce, so that the whole surface is involved.
Treatment.—Emollient and detergent lotions, such as slippery-
glycerine, ,5j, or, borax,
elm bark, pith of sassafras, or borax, 5j,
5j, honey, 5iiji or a weak solution of alum, or acetate of lead,
gr. iij to the ounce of water. A kw doses of bromide of potas-
sium will relieve the nervous excitement. Chlorate of potash
lotion, gr. v to the ounce of water, is also efficacious as a local
remedy. This affection usually subsides as soon as the consti-
tutional disorder is relieved. A mild cathartic and attention to
the diet may be all that is required.
Suppurative Gingivitis.—Dr. Ottolengui recommends for this
affection spraying the gingivae with a three per cent, solution of
then remove
pyrozone ; all deposits thoroughly ; for virulent
cases he employs a five per cent, solution, and sometimes a
twenty-five per cent, solution. Pain following the application
of the pyrozone may be relieved by applying glycerole of tannin.
This treatment is to be resorted to twice a week, using the three
per cent, solution of pyrozone as a mouth-wash during this time.
Where sensitiveness about necks of teeth or elsewhere is caused
by the one-twentieth of one per cent, of acidity of the pyrozone,
it may be neutralized by placing a small particle of carbonate of
magnesia in the tumbler, and then pouring in the three per cent,
solution of pyrozone to be used.
Catarrhal Stomatitis is indicated bv undue redness and capillary