A treatise on the disorders and deformities of the teeth and gums, explaining the most rational methods of treating their diseases. Illustrated with cases and experiments / by Thomas Berdmore.

  • Berdmore, Thomas, 1740-1785.
Date:
1844
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Credit: A treatise on the disorders and deformities of the teeth and gums, explaining the most rational methods of treating their diseases. Illustrated with cases and experiments / by Thomas Berdmore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Whether we consider it as a violent disease, or as a troublesome symptom, we are necessarily involved in the investigation and removal of its causes, as much as in the pursuit of means to alleviate or suppress the pain for the instant; and hence it happens that the tooth-ache cannot be treated apart from the disorders which usually produce it, without omitting what should be chiefly insisted on, or without giving rise to endless repetitions, prolixity, and confusion. We shall, therefore, in this place, only enumerate the various disorders which occasion the tooth-ache, leaving the diagnostic and curative part to be more fully considered under each head respectively. 1. A tooth-ache often arises from defluxions falling on the gums, the neighboring periosteum, and bone, particularly after catching cold. 2. From obstruction or inflammation of the nerves and vascular parts of the tooth itself. 3. From purulent or acrid matter, generated in any of these parts, in consequence of inflam¬ mation, extravasation, or acrimony of the fluids. 4. From fungi, excrescences, and ulcers of the gums. 5. From a recess of the gums, occasioned by scorbutic, venereal, or putrid disorders, whereby the roots of the teeth are exposed to external air and injury. 6. From tartar of the teeth, extending itself along the roots, and injuring the gums. 7. From looseness of one or more teeth, occasioned by violence, loss of gums, salivation, or putrid disease. 8. From injudicious extraction, whereby the tooth is frequently broken low down, the gums are bruised and torn away, the neighboring teeth exposed at their roots, the external side of the socket very often considerably injured, and splinters raised which produce lasting pains and inflammation. 9. From sudden alternations of heat and cold. 10. From sympathy with the neighboring affected parts. 11. From collections of matter form¬ ed in the maxillary sinuses, and in the cancellated parts of the lower jaw. 12. From caries or exostosis of the bones which form the sockets. 13. From caries of the tooth itself. 14. From loss of enamel, whereby the sensible, irritable part of the tooth is exposed. 15. From a fracture of the tooth. 16. From dentition. 17. And lastly, from the affection called tooth-edge. _ • CHAPTER II. Of Defluxions falling on the Gums, and the Tooth-ache arising therefrom. The lentor of the fluids, the spasmodic affections of the solids, and the tension and overcharge of the vessels which are observed