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PREPARATORY TO FILLING 227
appears on certain of the essential oils, by Dr.
Harlan, in which he alludes to the valuable
properties of the oils of cassia, cinnamon, &c., from
which the following is taken :
The most
'• remarkable property possessed by
the essential oils is one that has heretofore escaped
general attention. The writer first pointed this
out in a paper read before the Odontological Society
of Great Britain in 1887. Essential oils of the
varieties mentioned above, and a few others not
necessary here to particularise, when introduced into
a cavity of a living tooth and sealed therein, slowly
deposit vaporisable camphors, which are potent
antiseptics. These camphors are very sparingly
soluble in water, and in consequence of this are
not easily dissipated by moisture should the cavity
be not hermetically sealed. The same vaporisable
camphors are likewise deposited when the oils are
sealed within the roots of a tooth. It is on this
account that they so readily and certainly disinfect
polluted dentine. The writer (Dr. Harlan) wishes
it distinctly understood that he believes that the
dentine of a pulpless tooth — long dead, and in
which the pulp or other vegetable or animal matter
has decomposed—must be disinfected in order to
prevent a gradual deterioration of the cementum
And pericementum. This is a necessity to insure a
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PREPARATORY TO FILLING 227
appears on certain of the essential oils, by Dr.
Harlan, in which he alludes to the valuable
properties of the oils of cassia, cinnamon, &c., from
which the following is taken :
The most
'• remarkable property possessed by
the essential oils is one that has heretofore escaped
general attention. The writer first pointed this
out in a paper read before the Odontological Society
of Great Britain in 1887. Essential oils of the
varieties mentioned above, and a few others not
necessary here to particularise, when introduced into
a cavity of a living tooth and sealed therein, slowly
deposit vaporisable camphors, which are potent
antiseptics. These camphors are very sparingly
soluble in water, and in consequence of this are
not easily dissipated by moisture should the cavity
be not hermetically sealed. The same vaporisable
camphors are likewise deposited when the oils are
sealed within the roots of a tooth. It is on this
account that they so readily and certainly disinfect
polluted dentine. The writer (Dr. Harlan) wishes
it distinctly understood that he believes that the
dentine of a pulpless tooth — long dead, and in
which the pulp or other vegetable or animal matter
has decomposed—must be disinfected in order to
prevent a gradual deterioration of the cementum
And pericementum. This is a necessity to insure a
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