Injuries and diseases of the jaws . the palate. Of this a preparation in the College of Sur-geons Museum (lO^G), of an upper jaw, also removed by 224 TUMOURS OF THE UPPER JAW. Mr. Listen, affords a good example. Here tlie patient wasonly twenty-one, and the growth first appeared on theouter side of the gum of the left upper jaw four years beforethe operation. It was cut off six months after its first ap-pearance, but returned, and eighteen months after wasremoved, with a portion of the alveolar process, but reap-peared in a few weeks. Fig. 108, from Listons PracticalSurgery, shows the growth a

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Injuries and diseases of the jaws . the palate. Of this a preparation in the College of Sur-geons Museum (lO^G), of an upper jaw, also removed by 224 TUMOURS OF THE UPPER JAW. Mr. Listen, affords a good example. Here tlie patient wasonly twenty-one, and the growth first appeared on theouter side of the gum of the left upper jaw four years beforethe operation. It was cut off six months after its first ap-pearance, but returned, and eighteen months after wasremoved, with a portion of the alveolar process, but reap-peared in a few weeks. Fig. 108, from Listons PracticalSurgery, shows the growth after its removal, and figs. 109and 110 show the patient before and after the may be noticed here, as in the case of a large epulis,that disease of the upper jaw often closely resembles, exter-nally, a tumour of the inferior maxilla. Fig, 109, Fio.

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