1st. In the Fall of 1835, I was called to see a gentleman at eight P. M., represented to be suffering greatly, and unable to come to my office. I was introduced to a large man walking the floor in great agony. Seating him in a chair, I found the left side of the face swollen; a purple colored spot over the antrum; the first molar on the left upper jaw filled with gold; tooth firm, but evidently devitalized. I diagnosed the trouble to be abscess in the antrum. I extracted the tooth; he sprung out of the chair and dropped on the floor, face downwards, and quivered like an ox struck on the head with an ax. I used cold water freely to his head, and soon brought him to; placed him back in the chair; made a free passage through the front labial socket into the antrum, and the pus flowed freely. He then laid down on the bed much relieved; gave him a half grain of opium; waited about twenty minutes and injected the antrum with warm green tea; directed his head to be kept cool with cloths wet with cold water; left him with a promise to call again in a few hours; called again about three P. M.; was told he had been sleeping several hours; I injected the antrum with a weak solution of nitrate of silver; saw him the next morning and again injected the antrum with a much stronger solution of nitrate of silver; the swollen cheek appeared almost natural; said if he needed my service any more to come to my office. About a week later he called on me; brought me a sack; said a few hours before that he blowed it out through the left nostril; it was about one and a fourth-inch long, and about the size of an ordinary goose-quill; it was soft with a leathery like appearance; said he was all right; paid his bill; have not seen him since.