DR. TAFT:—In my own practice I think I have been reasonably fortunate in saving what exposed pulps I have had to deal with. I suppose I have my proportionate share of them, and my practice has been almost invariably to cap them. I think I am safe in saying that I have not used arsenious acid half a dozen times for the purpose of destroying pulps in the four years that I have been out of the school—I do not think I have used it _four_ times. In those cases where I have used it, the pulps have come to me in a highly inflamed condition, have been aching a long time, and trying to save them by capping has seemed at once to be out of the question, and in those cases—and in those cases only—have I devitalized them at once. I do not believe in flowing oxyphosphate directly over the pulp; neither do I believe it a good plan to put carbolic acid over it. My method is either to mix oxide of zinc with oil of cloves and apply it carefully, or to apply the oil of cloves directly to the exposed portion, then dust the oxide of zinc on that; afterwards flowing oxyphosphate in a creamy condition, and waiting until it hardened, then fill the rest of the cavity with oxyphosphate or amalgam. I keep a record of all the pulps that come to me exposed, or that I expose myself, and some I treat differently from others, but the majority of them, when seen subsequently, are alive. Occasionally I find one that comes back after a time, showing signs that the tooth is dead, and of course the tooth is then opened and treated; but the proportion of them is so very small that I believe in a conservative treatment of them, and think the first thing to be done is to get rid of whatever congestion there may be, if any, and I do not see why a pulp should not then live as well under a careful and skillful capping as it should against the hard, bony wall of the pulp cavity. I have had such good success in the treatment of them that I do not believe in destroying them at once. DR. GILLETT:—Will Dr. Taft please to outline his treatment of congested pulp, by which he brings it back to normal condition?