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twice a day. It may be used locally witli great 

 benefit, as a wash, from one to three drachms in 

 eight ounces of water. I have never found escha- 

 rotics of any service in this affection. AYhen the 

 disease has advanced so far as to involve the bone, 

 it will of course be necessary that the necrosed 

 portion be removed before the ulceration will heal 

 up ; but during the time the sequestrum is being 

 detached the chlorate appears to keep the ul- 

 ceration in check; and as soon as the bone is 

 removed the parts heal kindly and quickly under 

 the influence of this salt. Such has been my 

 experience with it. 



There appears a strange tendency to recurrence 

 of the ulceration, but on the opposite side of the 

 mouth, which, however, I believe, may generally 

 be prevented by a prolonged use of the chlorate 

 and an occasional return to it at short intervals 

 during six or twelve months. I have cases which 

 occasionally come under my eye, in which, for 

 some time after the healing of the ulcers, there 

 was a frequent return of simple stomatitis, which 

 was at once checked in its further progress by a 

 recurrence to this salt. I have the opportunity 

 occasionally of seeing the two cases which are 

 represented by the pieces of bone on the table 

 before you, and in neither of them has there ever 

 been a return of the ulceration. One of these 

 followed upon intermittent fever, and the other 

 appeared, as far as I could trace out the case, to 



