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GUM 
fhouid be then ufed with greater freedom. Effential fervice 
‘is always derived from the lofs of blood. In fome cafes 
leeches, which draw away a larger quantity of blood, are at- 
tended with the heft effets. Frequent recourfe fhould be 
degrees the gums become more firm, and ‘at length a har 
rufh may be ufed, without eaufing any lofs of blood, or 
i in. 
When the gums are exceedingly tender, and have any 
tendency torulderatioh, Mr. Fox recommends wafhing the 
mouth very frequently with barley water, fweetened with 
honey. In two or three days, if the forenefsis diminithed, 
- the lancet is to be cautioufly ufed with the diluted tin@ture 
of myrrh as awafh. 
When this treatment fails in making the edges of the 
gums heal, and they hang loofely about the anche of the 
teeth, Mr. Fox obferves, that much good will be derived 
from the ufe of a folution of the argentum nitratum, He 
- fays, that if the difeafe be only partial, the cauftic fhould 
Pi ses 
applied with a camel’s hair’ pencil dipped in the folution. 
is remedy is defcribed as communicating a new aétion to 
the gums, and they generally get well in a fhort time. © 
se whenever the gums are very full, and difcharge a 
ood deal of offensive matter, wathing the mouth with a 
‘olution of lunar cauttic is, according to 
excellent means of rendering the mouth {weet and com- 
fortable as 
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water; but, if the mouth is to be rinfed with it, not more 
than one grain of the cauttic fhould be put to two ounces 
{mall quantity of blood, 
and ve been 
related. , 
if the gums are lanced in the angles between the teeth, they 
will be drawn — in healing, and the teeth be eventually 
a ox on the Difeafes of the Teeth, p. 72— 
9G. ie Oe ea 
Mr. Hunter fufpeéted, that what is commonly meant by 
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that the practice of cutting 
away a part of the gams, when they were enlarged and.ap- by the 
e@e ‘oses, Nopgs, Lu N 
~  GUMMI Otiva, olive gum, in the 
| fometimes ufed in coughs and 
GUM 
parently redundant, was not the beft method. We do Not, 
we 
allous ‘I hickenings of the Gums.—The gums are fubjeét to 
fome difeafes, which hav i i 
and teeth. - A very common one is.a hard, callous thicken- 
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in fuch cafes he fufpected that they really had a cancerous 
ifpofition. Hunter on the Teeth, per88: edit, 400 
What more appertains to the foregoing fubject, will be 
found in another part of this work. Seo" EETH, Difea/es of- 
ACA, in Geogra 1y, a town on the N.E. coal of 
the ifland of Lucon. N. lat. 14°21. E, long@t22 27!. 
M » in Ancient Geography, an ifland of the 
Indian fea, placed by Ptolemy near the ifland of Taprobana. 
~ GUMBINNEN, in Geography, a town of Pruffian Li- 
* 
_ thuania, containing two churches, 200 houfes, and 3000 in- 
habitants, with fome manufatures of cloth; 65 miles E. 
of Konigtberg. : whe 
‘UMBORITZ, a town of Ruffia, in the government 
of Olonetz ; 16:miles S. of Olonetz. ~ psa 
GUMIPOLLAM, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore; 
53 miles N.N_E. of Bangalore. N) lat. 14°48. E, long. 
Be Bo. | a 
GUMISH-KANEH, a town of Turkith Armenia 5: 33 
miles S.S.E. of Trebifond. Peas OF Be ee 
U » a town of Japan, in the ifland: of Niphon; 
GUMMA 
55 miles N. of Jeddo, ee 
SUMMA, a term in Surgery, denoting a fwelling arifing 
from the fubftance of a bone, and having fuch a degree a 
of foftnefs, as makes it in fome meafure yield to the finger. 
‘The appellation is faid to be derived from the refemblance 
of the tumour to gum in confiftence. As thefe fwellings, 
increafe in’ at are prog re ‘ophi,. | 
nodi, and exoftofes. Gummata are fometimes f mptoms of 
the venereal difeafe ; but fometimes they exift, without our 
being able to affign any reafonable caufe for their origi. 
See Exosros JES Vr eae 
y the Greeks daxpua Evalac, 
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