In another case a patient twenty-seven years of age was tormented by violent pain in all her teeth on the left side, in the temple and the ear, as well as in the chin, the palate, and the throat. The doctors and surgeons consulted decided the cause to be rheumatism. The patient was bled not less than four times and subjected to various other methods of treatment (purgatives, clysters, poultices, etc.), but all in vain. She, however, perceiving that one of her teeth was decayed, had it taken out. It was believed that the cause of the malady had thus been found and removed; but an hour later the pain began again with the same violence as before, continuing for some months; after this it ceased of itself. On the return of the pain, later on, in all its former intensity, the patient consulted the very able surgeon Petit, who advised her to see Fauchard, as possibly the malady might have its cause and point of departure in some bad tooth. Fauchard found one of the inferior molars decayed. This being extracted, the pain promptly ceased, not to return any more.[444] Chapter XXXV contains twelve cases of serious maladies arising from dental diseases. One of these cases was observed in a patient aged fifty-seven years, who in consequence of caries of the last inferior molar on the right lost through necrosis a considerable portion of the lower jaw, including the whole of the right condyle; he was affected, besides, with caries of the temporal bone, in so advanced a degree that the probe could reach the dura mater; he was, therefore, in serious danger of his life, had to undergo several surgical operations of exceptional gravity, and even after recovery remained permanently subject to various disturbances, such as a salivary fistula, paralysis of the lower eyelid, etc. And all this because the surgeons whom the patient had called in had directed all their attention to the secondary facts, instead of suppressing the primary cause of the evil, represented by a dental affection.