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American Medical Union, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books North-American-Journal-Of-Homeopathy~~American-Medical-Union General Books LLC Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: grooved to fit exactly upon the sides or edges of the cleft; and the whole is fastened by a pin of metal to the anterior portion of the mouth. The great beauty of the contrivance consists in the fact that each false palate is adapted to the case in point. The first process is to take an exact cast in wax of the roof of the mouth with the fissure, then a mould is made in plaster, and from this one is constructed in lead. The latter in itself is a most wonderful work of ingenuity and art, and is composed, I believe, of seven or nine distinct pieces, so accurately adjusted that when they are placed in the required position, a complete metallic mould is made into which the melted rubber is poured. "With this invention, and the success which has resulted from its proper application, all the difficulties, dangers, and uncertain results of operative procedure are done away with, and the malformation divested in a great degree of its former inconveniences, and 1 may almost add, its terrors. To my own mind I can only see one objection to the whole invention, which is in its cost; but I have no doubt that in time the expense will be so reduced as to enable every one suffering from cleft or split palate to procure such an instrument that will render life a blessing rather than a torment, arid will enable each unfortunate to pass as a man among men." Article II.?Notes from Practice. By "War. II. Holcombe, M.D., of New-Orleans, La. Sciatica.?I was called to a middle-aged woman, who had been treated for sciatica by two of the most distinguished allopathic physicians of New-Orleans. She had been bed-ridden for three months. She had never experienced any relief except a temporary suspension of pain after the sub-cutaneous injection of Morphine. Mercury, Iodine, Potash, Colchicum, Quinine, t...<

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