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Title: Manual of dental surgery and pathology
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Coleman, Alfred Stellwagen, Thomas C
Subjects: Dentistry, Operative
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lea
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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se the mouth, and which sjieedily rehix after thetooth has been removed. Another familiar instance is the oc-currence of strabismus due to teething. In rarer cases distantparts are also affected, as in the instances where the irritationof teething causes a permanent contraction of the muscles ofthe calf of the leg—talipes equinus.^ Sercombe has related acase, where, through irritation of the exposed pulp of a tooth,contractions of the uterus were immediately brougiit on: ifsuch cases were common, it would certainly be dangerous to re-move teeth from those who are pregnant. (The student may be referred to A System of Dental Snrpjery, by JohnTomes, F.R.S., G. A: A. Churehill, London, 187:5, or Presley Bhxki.ston, Phila.Also to Diseases of the Teeth, by Benjamin Ward Richardson, II. Bailliere,London, I860.) 2 It must be borne in mind that the conditions referred to here and on page393 may arise from paralysis of opposing muscles. NERVOUS AFFECTIONS FROM DENTAL IRRITATION. 393Fi-j. 314.
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Diagrammatic representatiou of the fifth pair of cerehral nerves. (Indeed, the extreme susceptibility of the uterus to morbidaction, which in pre2:iiant women is often most unexpectedlydeveloped, makes it desirable to avoid all Operations unless thedelay will entail greater danger to the mother and foetus thanthe pain, or even the mental impressions, are liable to cause.This applies equally to tilling and extracting teeth. The writeris reminded of a case where tiie mother of live healthy full-term children, after the excitement produced by some youngvillains, who made use of coarse and beastly lauiruage in thehearing of her children, v.as thrown into labor, and deliveredof a premature child. Cases of this kind are so numerous thatit is unnecessary to cite them. The Mosaic law gave thesolemnity of its protection to enceinte women, and even pre-scribed death as a punishment for such offences as produced thistrouble.) Intermittent, or clonic, spasm is likewise occasionallj a con-sequence

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