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found in faulty food or drink, diseased teeth or gums, disordered 

 stomach, or the irritant food medicine or poison ingested. If 

 more is wanted simple astringent washes like those recommended 

 for stomatitis and a free access to pure water will often sufiSce. 

 Tartar emetic or opium has been known to succeed in obstinate 

 cases. Friction over the parotid or submaxillary gland with 

 camphorated spirit, tincture of iodine or soap liniment is some- 

 times required. In mercurial salivation chlorate of potash is 

 especially to be commended, and when the bowels have been un- 

 loaded of the agent, iodide of potas,sium will hasten its elimina- 

 tion from the tissues and blood. 



DILATED SALIVARY DUCTS. SALIVARY CALCULUS. 

 SALIVARY FISTULA. 



These are all surgical diseases and are to a large extent inter 

 dependent. The impaction of the calculus in the duct leads to 

 over-distension of the duct posterior to the obstruction, and the 

 rupture or incision of the distended duct, determines the fistula. 

 It is only necessary here to point out the seat of these lesions : 

 the di-stended sublingual ducts constituting a more or less rounded 

 swelling to one side of the frsenum lingui, the Whartonian duct 

 forming a tense rounded cord from the papilla back of the lower 

 incisor teeth backward on the inner side of the lower jaw, and 

 the Stenonian duct forming a similar tense cord from near the 

 middle of the cheek down around the lower border of the jaw in 

 company with the submaxillary artery and backward on the inner 

 side of its curved border to the parotid gland. 



For the more precise lesions, symptoms and treatment of these, 

 see a work on .surgery. 



