CHAPTER XXVIIL 



DISEASES AND INJUEIES OF THE FACIAL HEGION. 



WOUNDS OF THE LIPS TUMOURS BRUISES OF THE MOUTH AFFEC- 

 TIONS OF THE BUCCAL MEMBRANE SPORADIC APHTHiE — PARA- 

 LYSIS OF THE LIPS OPEN PAROTID DUCT SALIVARY CALCULI 



PTYALISM — RANULA EPULIS GLOSSITIS— ULCER AND INDURA- 

 TION OF THE TONGUE IN HORNED CATTLE PARALYSIS OF THE 



TONGUE. 



DISEASES AND INJURIES OF THE MOUTH, TONGUE, 

 (ESOPHAGUS, ETC. 



Wounds of the lips call for no special notice, further than that 

 they are to be treated upon the conservative method ; that is 

 to say, an endeavour must always be made to bring about the 

 union of the divided parts. It is a very cominon practice, when 

 a lip is partly cut, with the divided portions hanging loosely, to 

 remove them with a sharp pair of scissors or knife, instead of 

 bringing them together with sutures, and retaining them in ap- 

 position till they are united. I want to impress upon the young 

 practitioner the importance of never removing any portion of 

 injured lips until he sees that their reunion is an impossibility; 

 and rather than cut them off, he should allow them to be separ- 

 ated by the process of sloughing ; for a lip mutilated by meddling 

 surgery remains a permanent blemish, leaving the teeth exposed 

 and the powers of prehension greatly interfered with. 



TUMOUR OF THE LIP. 



A tumour sometimes forms on the lips; at first firm and 

 solid to tlie touch, of a variable size, occurring either spon- 

 taneously or as the result of a sting, and which in a day or 

 two suppurates and bursts. It requires little treatment except 

 fomentations. 



