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considerable search, we failed to remove the fang. 

 On the second day three pints of warm water 

 were forcibly injected through the upper opening 

 by means of a syringe, but with no better success. 

 The writer being convinced that he had felt the 

 fang, and that it was impacted in a pocket at the 

 posterior part of the floor, constructed a small 

 gutta-percha scoop, and attached it to 

 a gold probe capable of being bent to 

 such an angle as might be necessary to 

 sweep any irregularity in the floor of 

 the antrum. With the aid of this simple 

 instrument (Fig. 14) the foreign body 

 was at once dislodged and extracted. 

 Very little pain was experienced after 

 the first operation, the patient soon 

 pursued his ordinary business, and, at 

 the end of three months, the parts 

 were restored, apparently by bone, and 

 looked perfectly natural. A small quan- 

 tity of healthy mucus could, however, 

 be forced through a minute opening in 

 the ffum at the end of the fourth month, 



O ' Half size. 



but very little inconvenience of any kind 

 was suffered after the first few days. This case is 

 of interest to show the great amount of irritation 

 which the lining membrane of the antrum will 

 sometimes bear without taking on active inflam- 

 mation; and the rapidity with which the walls 

 were restored, contrasts strongly with the lack of 



