Dental disease in its relation to general medicine / by J.F. Colyer ; with the assistance of Stanley Colyer.

  • Colyer, Frank, Sir, 1866-1954.
Date:
1911
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    patient for recovering, and the possibility of removing all forms of sepsis. Although a complete cure, as a rule, cannot be looked for, it generally happens that the disease becomes stationary for a time, and later a very gradual improvement takes place. So important are these cases, and so essential is it to deal with them in their early stages, that septic foci in the mouth, if they do not at once respond to treatment by conservative methods, should be dealt with radically by the removal of the teeth. Moreover, it must never be forgotten that more than one focus of infection may be present. Chronic Bheumatism. — The condition known as chronic rheumatism implies a class of symptoms of a somewhat similar nature, but due often to dissimilar causes. The belief that many cases are traceable to intestinal disturbances such as oral sepsis, flatulent dys- pepsia, and constipation is certainly supported by clinical experience. In this connection the reader is referred to an interesting paper on ' Nodular ' Fibro-myositis, by Maxwell Telling. This author clearly demonstrates that the pain in many of the cases of so-called muscular rheumatism is due to areas of focal inflammatory hyperplasia of the connective tissues, which result in nodular thickenings of varying degree. Such inflamma- tory foci may be limited in number, even to a single area, or they may be scattered widely through the fibro- muscular structures of the body. He believes that disturbances of the alimentary tract play a somewhat important part in the origin of this state. Fairbank holds oral sepsis responsible for many cases of deformities of weakness. He maintains that no examination of these cases which does not include the mouth is complete, and no treatment thorough that does not deal with it when found. The most striking effects 10