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Title: Dr. Hood's plain talks about the human system : the habits of men and women - the causes and prevention of disease - our sexual relations and social natures - embracing common sense medical adviser...
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Hood, G. Durant
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Publisher: Chicago : Hood Medical Book Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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immediatelybehind the temporary teeth. The two middle incisors are cut about the seventh year, and these necessarily dis-place all four of the temporary teeth; the two lateral incisors appear in the eighthyear; the first bicuspids in the ninth year ; the second bicuspids in the tenth year;the canines from the eleventh to the twelfth year ; the second molars from thetwelfth to the thirteenth year; and the wisdom-teeth from the seventeenth to thetwenty-first year. It is to be understood that the above enumeration applies toboth jaws, but that the teeth of the lower jaw are usually a little earlier in theirappearance than those of the upper jaw. Lancing the Gums.—When an infant is cutting its teeth its mouth is hot, andthe gum is swollen and tender. Great relief may be afforded, and even its life maybe saved, should it be subject to convulsions, by freely lancing the gums. Thisoperation should of course be performed by a medical man, if one can be procured; but, in case of urgent need,
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Fig. 23. Fig. 24. a parent would be justifiedin performing it himself, ifprovided with a proper in-strument, and having some knowledge of the subject. The gum-lancet is a steelinstrument of the shape shown in Fig. 24, aiid may be procured of any surgicalinstrument maker. In lancing the gums of the lower jaw it will be most con-venient to have the infant held against the breast of a nurse, and in the sitting 718 DOMESTIC SUBGBBY.

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