On dentition, and some coincident disorders / by John Ashburner.

  • John Ashburner
Date:
1834
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On dentition, and some coincident disorders / by John Ashburner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    cream. Bowels not open to-day. To lake of calomel ten grains. Warm- bath, at 98 Fab. for half an hour. 17th, at nine in the morning'. —-The child screams at intervals. Pupils both much dilated; countenance sunken—• anxious; has had a wretched night— tossing and crying' out. One small mo- tion this morning-, black and pitchy. A great abundance of urine, which is not high coloured. Screams upon being touched; cannot bear pressure, especially on the right hypochondrium: sometimes the boy puts his hand therein the light- est and gentlest manner, and then puts it to his head. This short illness has produced greatemaciatiou. The mother reminded me of my having' lanced the gums six months before. I was con- founded that I had, up to this moment, omitted to look into the mouth. The idea of the teeth developing* flashed upon my mind. I examined the mouth. The first permanent molaris on the right side of the upper jaw was through the gum nearly one year and a half before its normal time. I liberated the tooth on the other side: it was ready to come through ; and I scored down with the gum-lancet upon the two corresponding teeth in the lower jaw. The child was