Dental review; devoted to the advancement of dentistry. . ilth disease, or one produced by the abuse of remedies ordiseases of the gastric mucous membranes or the lower alimentary . *Read before the Alumni Association of Boston and Tufts Dental Collegeand the Odontological Society of Chicago. ORIGINAL COMMUNICA TIONS. 545 tract. The examination of ancient crania would appear to showthat even in remote times the bony sockets of teeth were destroyedby diseases not due to rapid wedging; the impingement of badly fit-ting dentures or the misapplication of force in regulating teeth. Inlooking over t
Dental review; devoted to the advancement of dentistry. . ilth disease, or one produced by the abuse of remedies ordiseases of the gastric mucous membranes or the lower alimentary . *Read before the Alumni Association of Boston and Tufts Dental Collegeand the Odontological Society of Chicago. ORIGINAL COMMUNICA TIONS. 545 tract. The examination of ancient crania would appear to showthat even in remote times the bony sockets of teeth were destroyedby diseases not due to rapid wedging; the impingement of badly fit-ting dentures or the misapplication of force in regulating teeth. Inlooking over the history of maladies of the gums we are not to con-clude that they are due to civilization except in a degree, nor to theabuse of mercury or potash or cholagogues per se. The human racefor ages past suffered from caries and loosening of the teeth, and atthe same time rheumatism and gout were not unknown to the ancientwriters. It is quite within the range of possibility that uric acidand stored urates might have been found in the tissues of the Rameses. Fig. 1. Tying with silk ligature. (Dr. R. Good.) and Ptolemys, as well as in those of the ancient kings and nobles ofRome and Greece or other dynasties not necessary to mention. THE SUPPOSED ETIOLOGY OF LOOSENING OF THE TEETH. The most recent authors—those of the past forty years, and theirnumber is legion—do not agree as to the causes of inflammation ofthe gums and peridental membrane accompanied by wasting of thesockets of teeth. In a paper read by the writer before, the Odonto-logical Society of New York, in January, 1900, and published inthe Dental Cosmos for May, 1900, was given a full review of thework of Nash, Talbot, Barrett, Rhein, Bodecker and Eames. Thatwork will not be repeated here to-night. I will instead give you theresume of the work of a few writers not there mentioned. Abbott{Dental Pathology and Practice) believed that primarily it was due 546 THE DENTAL REVIEW. to the retention of calcareous materials in
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