Electro-physiology and electro-therapeutics : showing the best methods for the medical uses of electricity / By Alfred C. Garratt.
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a report of these so far ascertained facts before the Suffolk Dis- trict Medical Society, exhibiting the teeth thus extracted with- out pain, from some sixty patients, and explaining the modus operandi. Some of our best dentists, who are experts in surgical dentistry, are now making use of this method in all suitable cases with highly satisfactory results. Dr. Keep, long known in Bos- ton as one of our most skilful dentists, has just informed me that my method for the Faradaic tooth-extracting process removes " the dread of tooth pulling" in one half of the cases, expedites the process in quite a number of instances, and averts the neces- sity of administering ether not unfrequently. Dr. J. N. Hearder, of Plymouth, in England, says,* — "A few words on the application of electricity in the various dental operations. Having late- ly been cooperating with my friends of the dental profession, in applying electricity as an anaes- thetic, I have been led to conclude, not only from these experiments, but from the careful consid- eration of the experiments of others, that the results . Fig. 97. The Upper and Lower Jaws. A Side View, Ot all tlllS are quite COm- showing the natural position of the Teeth in their Patible With the Conditions «**«<*> <>8 the outer Plate of thfi Alveolar Processes has *■ t been removed, so as to expose tbe Fangs of the Teetb, Under Which they are Ob- anj Bhow the kind of articulation, and the relative tained. However various p°sition of each t00th- rig-69 wi" 6,,ow the Nerves of the Teeth. 1. Nearest to the figure we see the Two Incisors of this (the visible) half, or side of the Upper Jaw. The next Tooth is called the Cuspidatus. Next to it are the Two Bicuspidati. Next, we see the Two great three-pronged Molars. The last tooth in the upper jaw is often also three pronged ; this tooth is called Dens Sapien- tiae. There are 16 teeth in the up- per jaw. 2. Nearest to the figure again we see the Five Single teeth, which are similar to those that match them in the Up- per Jaw. But the next three are double teeth, are called Grinders, and have only Two Fangs each. In the lower jaw there are also 16 teeth. * London Lancet, Sept. 18, 1858, p. 297.