He goes on to say that "since dentistry had become such a popular business, and diseased teeth had been so carefully retained in the jaws, nervous diseases about the head were becoming alarmingly common." The same number of the above journal contained an editorial on "Dead Teeth in the Jaws," which read as follows: "Perhaps the time is near at hand when medical men should be themselves better informed concerning diseases of the jaws and mouth, rather than refer the ailments of this region to individuals whose limited knowledge of medicine does not prevent them from 'treating' dead teeth long after their presence in the jaws has given rise to alveolar abscesses and neuralgias more or less painful. It would not be strange if in the course of events, the day would soon come when all teeth without pulps, and hence in process of more or less rapid decay, as well as those which the deposit of tartar, or other cause, had become entirely divested of periosteal nourishment, would be promptly condemned as unfit to remain in the jaws, regarded in fact as foreign bodies liable to give rise, not only to cerebral irritation and disease in the organs of special sense, through the propagation of local disturbances in the mouth to the regions mentioned, but to endanger likewise the general health through purulent matter discharged into the mouth from alveolar abscesses, to be continuously swallowed for a long time, or, indeed, in some instances, to be absorbed and thus produce septicæmic poisoning. It is certainly gratifying to note the establishment of instruction in oral surgery in some of the medical schools, and it is to be hoped that this subject will receive the attention its importance demands." Dr. Sexton cites the readers of the _Record_ to eight cases of otalgia resulting from diseased teeth. I have no doubt but a majority of the dentists before me to-day have met with almost that number of cases in practice every week; nor do you find it a difficult thing to render prompt relief, and that, too, in a large majority of cases, without the use of the forceps. And I believe that I am warranted in saying that in at least three-fourths of the cases met with in our practice, we find the reflex pain in the ears due to exposed living pulps, and not to "dead teeth in the jaws."