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food about during mastication. To burn them, therefore, is 

 not only an act of great cruelty, but is really a permanent 

 injury. Besides this, the hot iron often comes in contact 

 with the teeth, and destroys their enamel, when they soon 

 begin to decay. Caustics are equally objectionable to the 

 m«uth, and to the teeth still more so. There is not the least 

 excuse for resorting to either of these modes of treatment, 

 for the swelling can readily be removed by the courses pre- 

 scribed above. 



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