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-[QQ DENTAL MEDICINE.
case of infants, may be preserved from injury by passing a silver
wire through the cheeks, having on each protruding end a button,
to prevent the breaking up of the suture during the act of crying.
Cocaine is a useful local anaesthetic for such operations.
Facial Paralysis is indicated by distortion of the face, in which
the mouth is drawn to one side, being due to paralvsis of the
facial nerve. The eye may also remain permanently open on the
affected side, the saliva escape from the corner of the mouth, and
the food collect under the cheek, on account of the paralysis of
the buccinator muscle.
Treatment.—Electricity, and systematic treatment with strych-
nine, phosphorus, iron, quinine, ergot, etc.
J Nasal Polypus is indicated by more or less obstruction of
one or both nostrils, with occasional watery discharge ; a gray or
yellowish mass, like jelly in consistence, can be detected by the
finger, if it is passed behind the soft palate, hanging down into the
pharynx, and which increases greatly in damp weather; the nose
bulged out on one side by the growth within.
Treatment.—Remove either by the snare or by torsion, or bv
repeated applications of chromic acid. To prevent reproduction
apply to the surface chromic acid or chloride of zinc.
Thrush., common to infants and children under eighteen months
of age, is indicated by small, white spots, the size of a pin's head,
upon the dorsal surface of the tongue, palate, velum, inside of
cheek and lips, which increase in size and coalesce, with a tend-
ency to false membrane, the crusts falling off and reappearing;
the mucous membrane beneath redder than natural.
Treatment.—Change of diet and residence, if these are at fault;
the administration of saccharate of lime in milk. Local treat-
ment, mel-boracis, or borax solution, or
li. Sodii borat . . i^j
Glycerinae -^V]
Aquae ^iv. M.
'
SiG.— Apply with a camel's-hair brush four or five times a day.
Or—
R. Zinc sulph " . . . • . . . . gr.i-iv
Aquae rosse 5 ij. M.
-[QQ DENTAL MEDICINE.
case of infants, may be preserved from injury by passing a silver
wire through the cheeks, having on each protruding end a button,
to prevent the breaking up of the suture during the act of crying.
Cocaine is a useful local anaesthetic for such operations.
Facial Paralysis is indicated by distortion of the face, in which
the mouth is drawn to one side, being due to paralvsis of the
facial nerve. The eye may also remain permanently open on the
affected side, the saliva escape from the corner of the mouth, and
the food collect under the cheek, on account of the paralysis of
the buccinator muscle.
Treatment.—Electricity, and systematic treatment with strych-
nine, phosphorus, iron, quinine, ergot, etc.
J Nasal Polypus is indicated by more or less obstruction of
one or both nostrils, with occasional watery discharge ; a gray or
yellowish mass, like jelly in consistence, can be detected by the
finger, if it is passed behind the soft palate, hanging down into the
pharynx, and which increases greatly in damp weather; the nose
bulged out on one side by the growth within.
Treatment.—Remove either by the snare or by torsion, or bv
repeated applications of chromic acid. To prevent reproduction
apply to the surface chromic acid or chloride of zinc.
Thrush., common to infants and children under eighteen months
of age, is indicated by small, white spots, the size of a pin's head,
upon the dorsal surface of the tongue, palate, velum, inside of
cheek and lips, which increase in size and coalesce, with a tend-
ency to false membrane, the crusts falling off and reappearing;
the mucous membrane beneath redder than natural.
Treatment.—Change of diet and residence, if these are at fault;
the administration of saccharate of lime in milk. Local treat-
ment, mel-boracis, or borax solution, or
li. Sodii borat . . i^j
Glycerinae -^V]
Aquae ^iv. M.
'
SiG.— Apply with a camel's-hair brush four or five times a day.
Or—
R. Zinc sulph " . . . • . . . . gr.i-iv
Aquae rosse 5 ij. M.
