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Title: Cyclopaedia of the diseases of children, medical and surgical
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Keating, John M. (John Marie), 1852-1893 Edwards, William A Keating, John M. (John Marie), 1852-1893
Subjects: Children
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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but in a few instances molars have been noted at birth, andin an infant seen by Thomas there were both incisors and molars to thenumber of nine. Commonly such teeth are poorly developed ; the absenceof a root or fang has been often noted, and the enamel has been describedas thin and imperfectly formed. In a few recorded instances the teeth havebeen firmly fixed in the jaw, have been white in color, and have shown anormal state of both dentine and enamel; but in the great majority theywere quite movable, rocking to and fro on the gum, lacked the bright ivoryappearance of normal .teeth, and had a softer feeling than usual. In thecases seen by myself they were thin, discolored scales (10). Morbid conditions of the dental follicle, of the nature of inflammation,ulceration, and even of gangrene, have occasionally been met with; andprematurely erupted teeth have been in rare instances associated with such 1 The figures within ( ) refer to the bibliography at the end of the article. PLATE I
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Dr. Vargass case of extra-alveolar dental sac. CONGENITAL DISORDERS AND DISEASES OF THE NEW-BORN. 15 malformations as hare-lip, cleft palate, tongue-tie, and cranial defects. Thepresence of the tooth has caused an ulceration under the tongue resemblingthat seen in whooping-cough. Clinical History.—The history which is usually given in cases of con-genital teeth is that at the time of birth the doctor or nurse, having occa-sion to put a linger in the infants mouth, discovered the anomaly ; or thatsome hours or days later the mother became aware of the unusual state ofmatters through the wounding of her nipples by the teeth of the childduring nursing. In a remarkable case recently narrated to me by myfriend Dr. W. R. Martine, of Haddington, N. B., the infant presented bythe lace, and the presence of two incisors (one well formed and the otherimperfectly developed) was felt by him but not clearly recognized as suchduring labor: this coincidence of congenital teeth and a face-presentati

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