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Oum-Biles. 157
easily removed much more so, than living teeth or fangs, for
;
the connexion existing between them and the periosteum is
destroyed, so that they are only held in their sockets mechani-
cally, and nature often has thrown them out so much, that
they merely adhere to the gum.
" Dead teeth and stumps, by the constant irritation and
morbid action which they occasion, may be considered as the
principal cause of many nervous and rheumatic affections of
an alarming nature, accompanied with much pain; namely,
disorders of the organs of sense, as of the eyes and ears;
diseases of the brain, face and more distant, parts, under the
forms of tic douloureux, convulsions, epilepsy, hysteric hypo-
chondriasis, dyspepsia, &LC."^Koec'ker, -page 258.
" Dead teeth and roots are generally the cause of alveolar
abcesses or gum-biles. They should always be extracted."
Thomas Bell, page 216.
GUM-BILES.
Gum-biles are the result of inflammation in the sockets of
the teeth, or rather of the periosteum or membrane which
lines the sockets, and surrounds the fangs, terminating in sup-
puration ; and this inflammation is caused by the irritation
of dead teeth and fangs, which have become foreign and ex-
traneous bodies, by a total destruction of the vascular and
vital connexion existing between them and the periosteum.
Nature, ever watchful to guard herself against disease, en-
deavors to rid herself of these noxious bodies, and she slowly
performs this process, by causing an absorption of the sockets,
Oum-Biles. 157
easily removed much more so, than living teeth or fangs, for
;
the connexion existing between them and the periosteum is
destroyed, so that they are only held in their sockets mechani-
cally, and nature often has thrown them out so much, that
they merely adhere to the gum.
" Dead teeth and stumps, by the constant irritation and
morbid action which they occasion, may be considered as the
principal cause of many nervous and rheumatic affections of
an alarming nature, accompanied with much pain; namely,
disorders of the organs of sense, as of the eyes and ears;
diseases of the brain, face and more distant, parts, under the
forms of tic douloureux, convulsions, epilepsy, hysteric hypo-
chondriasis, dyspepsia, &LC."^Koec'ker, -page 258.
" Dead teeth and roots are generally the cause of alveolar
abcesses or gum-biles. They should always be extracted."
Thomas Bell, page 216.
GUM-BILES.
Gum-biles are the result of inflammation in the sockets of
the teeth, or rather of the periosteum or membrane which
lines the sockets, and surrounds the fangs, terminating in sup-
puration ; and this inflammation is caused by the irritation
of dead teeth and fangs, which have become foreign and ex-
traneous bodies, by a total destruction of the vascular and
vital connexion existing between them and the periosteum.
Nature, ever watchful to guard herself against disease, en-
deavors to rid herself of these noxious bodies, and she slowly
performs this process, by causing an absorption of the sockets,
