The Dental cosmos . e, and finally by the naturalprocess of growth of the tooth the remaining portion of the pulp-chamber was filled up with tolerably regular ivory (7). In all of the preceding cases the external wound has healed ;completely in Figs. 27-31, incompletely in Fig. 26. In Fig. 32 wehave a case in which the suppuration produced was so severe and solong continued as to prevent the wound being healed by either pulpor pericementum. The ball in this case was of very large size, andappears to have inflicted an unusually severe wound. It is notpossible to tell exactly how thick the wall
The Dental cosmos . e, and finally by the naturalprocess of growth of the tooth the remaining portion of the pulp-chamber was filled up with tolerably regular ivory (7). In all of the preceding cases the external wound has healed ;completely in Figs. 27-31, incompletely in Fig. 26. In Fig. 32 wehave a case in which the suppuration produced was so severe and solong continued as to prevent the wound being healed by either pulpor pericementum. The ball in this case was of very large size, andappears to have inflicted an unusually severe wound. It is notpossible to tell exactly how thick the wall of the tusk was at the timethe wound was received. It could not, however, have been over aninch thick, since the splinter of regular ivory (e) could never havebeen forced into its present position unless at that time this portion ofthe tooth was still pulp. 5i8 THE DENTAL COSMOS. The pericementum made an attempt to close the wound, and suc-ceeded in reducing its diameter at one point to about one-third that Fig. Fig. 32.—Longitudinal section from a tusk containing a large cavern resulting from a gun-shot wound, a, entrance of ball; b, b, remains of pulp-chamber; c, thin layer of a conglomeratebone-like substance by which the pulp finally succeeded in separating itself from the cavern ;d, ball found in the cavern ; e, splinters from the primitive wall of the tusk. of the ball, so that before the preparation was sawn open it served asa natural ivory rattle-box. The pulp also finally succeeded in putting Fig. 33.
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