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dency to confluence with these ulcers ; nor is the 

 breath rendered fetid by them. 



Ulcerative stomatitis, or ulcero-membranous 

 stomatitis, is a much more important affection. 

 It occupies that undefined territory which will 

 sometimes be claimed by the dentist, and some- 

 times by the surgeon. It is an affection which 

 as legitimately falls to the care of the one as of 

 the other. In hospital practice it is generally 

 handed over to the dentist, and therefore I think 

 I shall not be going beyond the province of this 

 paper by speaking of it. It is found in this 

 country most frequently in young children of the 

 poorer classes. It also appears to prevail, at times, 

 among the soldiers of the French and Portuguese 

 armies. 



During the Crimean war, M. Bergeron, a civil 

 physician attached to the Hopital du Roule, 

 was much struck with its prevalence among the 

 garrison of 'Paris, especially among -the recruits ; 

 its character being identical with that which assails 

 the children of this country. From the fact that 

 the privates were more subject to it than the non- 

 commissioned ofiicers, and the latter far more so 

 than the ofl&cers, the doctor attributed the affection 

 to hygienic circumstances. 



As recently as Saturday evening last, Mr. 

 Arnold Rogers mentioned a case of ulcerative 

 stomatitis, which he met with in the person of a 

 British officer, who had been through the hard- 



