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\ii!t Scurvy in the Owns.
debauchery, intemperance, &c. This species of the disease
Js more rapid in its course of destruction than the former, more
distressing, and more difficult of cure.
Dental writers, in our humble opinion, have laid too much
Importance on the remote or constitutional causes of the
disease : in most cases, the constitution has little to do with
it ; for the healthy and mostrobust are said to be most subject
to its ravages. Sir. Koecker says, that he has never seen the
disease without a deposite of tartar upon the teeth, and that
this has been its immediate cause. This opinion is further
coufirraed by the facts, that healthy persons, who keep their
teeth free of the exciting causes of the disease, or free of tar-
tar and every species of foreign matter, and whose teeth are
sound, either naturally, or rendered so artificially, are never
troubled by the disease in question, while those who neglect
their teeth, are very liable to it; also, that people in the lower
walks of life are the most subject to scurvy in the gum, be-
cause they totally neglect their teeth. It is seldom that an
aged plebian is seen with teeth. We have never seen a single
instance of this disease, in a healthy person, either in the
higher or lower walks of life, that was not wholly produced
by local causes. The disease being cured, in such cases, by
local treatment, also shows that its causes are local.
Scurvy in the gum, in its early stages, is seldom attended
with much pain, but as the disease advances, the pain is often
considerable, and the constitutional irritation very great,
though the patient or his medical attendant seldom attribute
this excitement to its true cause ; the state of the mouth being
considered as the effect of the constitutional derangement, in-
stead of the cause of their derangement.
Method of Cure.*—The indications of cure in the first or
* " I have always succeeded in curing this disease in all its different
stages by the mode of treatment, which I am now about to describe.
"It consists, first, in checking the diseased action which has become
habitual, and in producing a general healthy disposition in the diseased
parts, and those connected with them, by removing the actual causes
tuid, secondly, in preventing their occurrence.
\ii!t Scurvy in the Owns.
debauchery, intemperance, &c. This species of the disease
Js more rapid in its course of destruction than the former, more
distressing, and more difficult of cure.
Dental writers, in our humble opinion, have laid too much
Importance on the remote or constitutional causes of the
disease : in most cases, the constitution has little to do with
it ; for the healthy and mostrobust are said to be most subject
to its ravages. Sir. Koecker says, that he has never seen the
disease without a deposite of tartar upon the teeth, and that
this has been its immediate cause. This opinion is further
coufirraed by the facts, that healthy persons, who keep their
teeth free of the exciting causes of the disease, or free of tar-
tar and every species of foreign matter, and whose teeth are
sound, either naturally, or rendered so artificially, are never
troubled by the disease in question, while those who neglect
their teeth, are very liable to it; also, that people in the lower
walks of life are the most subject to scurvy in the gum, be-
cause they totally neglect their teeth. It is seldom that an
aged plebian is seen with teeth. We have never seen a single
instance of this disease, in a healthy person, either in the
higher or lower walks of life, that was not wholly produced
by local causes. The disease being cured, in such cases, by
local treatment, also shows that its causes are local.
Scurvy in the gum, in its early stages, is seldom attended
with much pain, but as the disease advances, the pain is often
considerable, and the constitutional irritation very great,
though the patient or his medical attendant seldom attribute
this excitement to its true cause ; the state of the mouth being
considered as the effect of the constitutional derangement, in-
stead of the cause of their derangement.
Method of Cure.*—The indications of cure in the first or
* " I have always succeeded in curing this disease in all its different
stages by the mode of treatment, which I am now about to describe.
"It consists, first, in checking the diseased action which has become
habitual, and in producing a general healthy disposition in the diseased
parts, and those connected with them, by removing the actual causes
tuid, secondly, in preventing their occurrence.
