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place around the neck of the tooth, which extends 

 into the socket or alveolar cavity. The adjoining 

 gum becomes swollen and tender. 



Treatment : As a rule, in these cases it is best 

 to extract the tooth at once, which quickly gives 

 relief, but this is sometimes objected to by the 

 owner. In these circumstances the tooth should 

 be thoroughly cleaned by scraping, and strong 

 carbolic acid applied very sparingly around the 

 neck of the tooth on a piece of sharp wood or a 

 pointed wooden match. The mouth should be 

 kept clean by being sponged night and morning 

 with a saturated solution of boracic acid. 



The offending tooth has to be extracted sooner 

 or later. 



Tumours : 



Symptoms : New growths, causing swelling and 

 enlargement of the part of the body in which 

 they appear. A tumour, unlike an abscess, 

 generally forms slowly, and is at first usually 

 not painful, and moreover, is not accompanied 

 during the early stages by a rise of temperature 

 as is found when an abscess is forming. 



Treatment : It is seldom that a tumour of any 

 kind can be reduced or removed except by a 

 surgical operation. I have sometimes thought 

 that gently rubbing the tumours formed on the 

 milk glands, especially when small, daily for some 

 time with iodine vasogen has checked their 

 growth. 



Directly a tumour has been diagnosed, unless 

 the patient is a very old one, it is best to have 

 it removed before it has developed into a large 



