Injuries and diseases of the jaws . illustration (fig. 34) from M. Debouts paper, shows the dis-section of a case of the kind more than thirty years after Fig. DESTRUCTION OF LOWER JAW. 77 the receipt of the injury, the history being as follows :—Atthe battle of Jena, Vernet had the body and left ramus ofthe lower jaw carried away by a cannon-ball. The softparts, bruised and torn, hung down in front of the neck,and the tongue was much injured from the tip along theleft side. At the ambulance the parts were adjusted as wellas possible, and the dressing completed. An abundant sup-puration e
Injuries and diseases of the jaws . illustration (fig. 34) from M. Debouts paper, shows the dis-section of a case of the kind more than thirty years after Fig. DESTRUCTION OF LOWER JAW. 77 the receipt of the injury, the history being as follows :—Atthe battle of Jena, Vernet had the body and left ramus ofthe lower jaw carried away by a cannon-ball. The softparts, bruised and torn, hung down in front of the neck,and the tongue was much injured from the tip along theleft side. At the ambulance the parts were adjusted as wellas possible, and the dressing completed. An abundant sup-puration ensued; splinters were detached from the ex-tremities of the bones, and the whole was healed in threemonths. Ribes, in 1818, describes thus the condition of the partswhen Vernet had attained the age of forty-four :— The softparts and loose flaps of the lips, chin, and cheeks have be-come agglutinated at the upper part of the neck, above andto the side of the larynx at the root of the tongue, wherethey form by their adhesion divers folds and opening—the mouth—is situated beneath the arch ofthe palate; the tongue lies concealed in the sof
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