St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-02
IDXES IN IVORY.
The State Dentists Discuss Various
Interesting Professional Topics.

Yesterdays session of the State Dental
association was of unusual interest and the
attendance was much larger than on the
opening day. Five papers, on technical
subjects, were read, and each was dis
cussed with lively interest. Some of
these papers treated of matters of only pro-
fessional interest while Others coming more
within the knowledge of the general public,
were interesting accordingly.
DEEP-SEATED Assesses.
DR.. J. S. Marshall, Chicago, read his
postponed paper Oh Treatment of Deep
Seated Assesses Associated With the
Teeth. Without External Incisions, saying
he was full of the hope the time might soon
come when some means would be suggested
whereby the attendant dangers might be
lessened and the need for the use of the
knife be done away. Deep-seated alb
scesses are those which have extended be-
yond the ordinary limits and have involved
more or less of the structures of the jaw,
with tendency to necrosis or have pene
trated the antIum of HighmOre, or have
burrowed downward into the muscles of
the neck Such assesses are dangerous
and are frequently improperly diagnosed,
but he treated only of the common kind,
which originate from diseases of the in
ferior teeth. Treatment should primarily
tend to cut off the suppurative process,
which will lessen the danger and avoid the
use OF the knife in such a delicate
locality, as well as avoiding the disgusting
and unsightly scars which often follow the
internal opening of these assesses. Pur-
suing the line OF treatment and recommend
ing the use of peroxide of hydrogen. the
paper dwelt for some length on reports Of
cases in this country and Europe, and fl
nally concluded with several technical points
Of no general interest TO the public.
AN.ESTHESIA.
Dr. ~ G. Jennison of Minneapolis read
valuable and exhaustive paper on the
subject of Anasthetics and Their Use and
Abuses. To escape pain and avoid its use
less inhiction is only one of the objects of
anasthetics, the really important one being
to diminish nervous and mental tax. The
paper reviewed the history of an9StheticS,
the attributes of which have been known
nearly ever since the Christian era. Opium
has long been in use, and in the third cen
fury oriental surgeons used Indian hemp
and hasheesh. AtrOpia and mandragOra
were used in ancient Greece, while the
first experiments in oxygen, nitrogen and
their compounds were made in the begin
ming OF the present century. Ether was
used in 1912, and gas was first used in 1914.
Prof. Simpson OF Edinburgh was the first to
use chloroform by inhalation, while during
the late war 90. 260 persons were operated
upon while under the influence of anaS-
thetics.
The principal agents used to produce an
sesthesia are nitrous oxide. ether and cblo-
reform, and the paper advised their sepa-
rate use, strongly opposing vitalized air.
1t then proceeded to technical discussion
of the operation on the system of anes-
thetics, quoting from several standard au-
thorS. 1t referred TO the gradually de-
creasing danger in their administration,
giving the proportion of fatal cases as fol-
lows:
Chloro1orm. ...-... -.-.....--..l IN zoo
Ether .....--.....-.....-.1 in 23,2O;
Nitrous Oxide. In 100000
After devoting some space to the detail:
of the proper methods of administering an
aesthetics in dentistry, the paper concluded
by saying that an8sthesia was one of the
greatest boons ever discovered. While il:
indiscriminate use is to be discountenanced,
all surgical operations should be rendered
as free from pain as possible. So with
clear understanding Of what we are doing
we can remove from the lives of our pa
tients pains which they dread, make severe
operations easy, and still not advertise our
selves as painless frauds and publ,
butchers.
HANDLING CHILDREN.
DR.. A. 7. BigelOw of st. Paul read on
of the most interesting and practical papers
of the session and containing fewer techni
calities. 1t was entitled Management o
Children in the Dental Chair, and began
with a short preface of the necessity of tn
constant and sl1illful care of the teeth o
Children from the early age Of three years
go a norton WAS devoted To the differen