265 DEAR SIR, INTELLIGENCE, CORRESPONDENCE, &c. NITRIC ACID IN TOOTH-ACHE. Hatton Garden, June 18th, 1832. Your correspondent, Mr. Thomas, of Pembroke Dock, has, in your last number, claimed the discovery, of nitric acid as an efficacious remedy for tooth-ache, and informed us that he had used it in 1820, eight years before Mr. Myers mentioned it to me. I have no doubt of the truth of this statement, but must observe that several of my friends have assured me, they had known the acid applied to carious teeth many years ago; and therefore your correspondent's claim to the discovery is not better than my own. My object in publishing my paper was to recommend a trial of the remedy, as I had no doubt of its value, and to promote the interests of science and humanity. It appears rather singular that Mr. Thomas withheld his discovery for a period of eight years, and then published it after another had anticipated him. I am happy that he bears testimony in favour of its efficacy; and I take this opportunity of stating that repeated experience since the publication of my paper enables me to recommend it as an immediate palliative for the violent pain produced by caries of the teeth. I have never known it fail when applied to decayed teeth in the lower jaw, but it sometimes fails when disease is in the upper, from the difficulty of placing it in contact with the We direct attention to a very able article in the Lancet for June 23d, by Mr. Fergus, Some very curious and instructive papers have also been communicated to our con- PERISCOPE. 12. Feeble Treatment of Typhus by the French.. 13. M. Roux on the Use of large flat Ligatures 14. Recent and infamous Official Mandate in France, on the Subject of the Wound- 2. Cold Affusion in Convulsions.. 4. External Application of Narcotics.. 22. Angina Pectoris and Diseased Heart 24. Sir D. Brewster on Ocular and Acoustic Illusions.. 27. Composition of Cow's Milk before and after Parturition 28. Mr. Rodweiss on the Decomposition of Uric by Nitric Acid ...... 45. Mr. Elliott's Case of Injury of the Head, followed by Discharge of Pus from the 16. M. M. Foville and Parchappe on Cholera.. 49. Menstruation in different Countries. From Dr. Davis's Obstetric Medicine, 560 We are glad to find that Dr. Carswell is preparing for publication a work on Patho- We have to acknowledge the receipt of a phial (from Atherstone) containing some 2 inches and has 152 legs. We refer the gentleman who favoured us with these ani- |
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