GUMS. 
affected with inflammation. The ligaments are naturally 
almoft devoid of fenfation ; but in feveral difeafes of the 
e office of the teeth, and biting and bruifing the food 
’ without pain 
ile. 
This inflammation is often very confiderable, efpecially 
whole face. 
_ Asin all other abfceffes the matter makes its own way 
outward, and fince it cannot be evacuated through the 
the root of the tooth, or feparatin om it 
The matter is ufually difcharged in one of thefe ways, 
and fel n the infide of 
ter ba difcharged, on which account the tooth is rendered 
More-or defs loofe.: "This event may be feen in many fkulls, 
‘1 -alfo frequently in the living fubje&t ; for, when the 
rea procefs is deftroyed, on the outfide of the tooth, 
the latter part be moved, the motion may be obferved 
Snder the gum all along the f ; bie: 
FP ihows thefe abfceffes have burit through the gums they 
ums and 
: heal up, becaufe the gum cannot unite to 
: 4Xt certain periods, e 
from them diminifhes, owing to a fubfidence of the fup- 
ither expofure to cold, or fome other ac- 
: the inflammation, an increafe 
pac - fuppurarion is the confequence, and’ either the old 
nce inthe gu becomes opened again, or the difc 
2 the fide off the tooth skaneies. Ja the ts 
however, the . di harge as this is 
Mr. Hunter believes, that the affection is lefs fevere thal 
in the former, in whi 
loofer, till it either drops out, or is extraéted. . 
Mott probably, in all fuch cafes, fays Mr. IIunter, the 
by a procefs called floughing, or exfoliation. (See Exro1a- 
Whe: 
advifes us to keep the opening from clefing, wo 
preventing future gatheri gs, SSE Teo bres 
the opening, and keeping it enlarged till all the 
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