. Injuries and diseases of the jaws . hriealso relates a very similar case, as having occurred at thesiege of Badajos. The wars of the first Napoleon afibrdcdsome frightful examples of injury to the jaws, which theunfortunate patients survived for years in one of themilitary asylums of Paris. The accompanying drawing(fig. 28), taken from an able paper by M. Emile Debout, On the Mechanical Restoration of the Maxilla {BrilishJournal of Dental Science, April, 1861), shows the conditionof a corporal who was struck by a cannon-ball at the siegeof Alexandria, in 1800. The shot carried away the great
. Injuries and diseases of the jaws . hriealso relates a very similar case, as having occurred at thesiege of Badajos. The wars of the first Napoleon afibrdcdsome frightful examples of injury to the jaws, which theunfortunate patients survived for years in one of themilitary asylums of Paris. The accompanying drawing(fig. 28), taken from an able paper by M. Emile Debout, On the Mechanical Restoration of the Maxilla {BrilishJournal of Dental Science, April, 1861), shows the conditionof a corporal who was struck by a cannon-ball at the siegeof Alexandria, in 1800. The shot carried away the greaterpart of the face, including three-fourths of the lower jawand part of the tongue, and the man was thought to bedead. Under the solicitous care of Baron Larrev he re- I I INJCRY FROM CANNON-BALL. 69 covered however, and lived for more than twenty years. It can be seen at a glance that speech and mastication wereimpossible. Poor Vaute concealed the deformity by wearinga mask, gilt inside, and imitating the colour of the skin Fig. outside. He could even by means of this cover make himselfa little understood, but his greatest distress arose from theincessant escape of the saliva, which was so great as to satu-rate in succession a number of linen compresses in the courseof the day. After supporting his misfortune heroically forso many yeors, he put an end to his misery in 1821. Inorder to complete the history of a case in which he had feltso deep an interest, Larrey, on learning the death of Vaute,procured his head, the state of which he described. The loss of substance occasioned by the ball was limitedto the elliptic segment seen in the portrait. The left malarbone had been carried away. The arch of the palate andthe nasal foss-je down to the ethmoid had been destroyed. 70 GUNSHOT INJURIES OF THE JAWS. The inferior and internal orbital walls, down to the base ofthe skull, had been also destroyed. Two-thirds of the lowerjaw were wanting. The right half of the middle portion
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