Dissertation on the diseases of the maxillary sinus : read before the American Society of Dental Surgeons, at their third annual meeting, held in Boston, July 20, 1842 / by Chapin A. Harris.

  • Harris, Chapin A. (Chapin Aaron), 1806-1860.
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1843
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Credit: Dissertation on the diseases of the maxillary sinus : read before the American Society of Dental Surgeons, at their third annual meeting, held in Boston, July 20, 1842 / by Chapin A. Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    per interference, unless the state of the patient's health be such as to render it absolutely necessary, for by so doing, a piece of bone that is still attached to the soft parts may be broken. But while this should be carefully avoided, all dead pieces, isolated from the soft parts, should be detached from the sound bone with which it may be connected, and removed. The character which the affections of this cavity put on, being determined by the state of the constitutional health, or some par- ticular vice of body, it often becomes necessary in their treatment to have recourse to general remedies. If the subject be of a scrofulous or scorbutic habit, or is affected with any specific con- stitutional vice, such remedies as are indicated by the affection of the general system under which he may be labouring, should be employed. But it is not necessary here to describe the signs by which the various habits of body -and constitutional vices are designated, nor is it essential to point out the curative treatment respectively required by each. Full and ample directions upon these subjects will be found in works devoted especially to the affections of the general system. But although the character and malignancy of the disease are determined by the state of the constitutional health, or disposition of body, its occurrence seems nevertheless, to be dependent upon local irritation. Its continuance also, in many instances, results from this; and the cure, in cases of this kind, soon follows the removal of the cause that gave rise to it. In a case, the history of which I am now about to detail, an example of this sort is furnished. Case XX. L. S—, a maiden lady of about thirty years of age, of a scorbutic habit, had been ailected with pain in her left cheek