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: the gold, and thought this might be the cause of pain sometimes. Although he said this, perhaps he should not, for the accepted notion was that a filling could not be made too hard; yet he had seen fillings so soft that an excavator would readily perforate them, and for all this these fillings, to all appearances, perfectly preserved the teeth. Dr. Pettit begged to correct Dr. Buckingham as to the cases of abrasion to which he had alluded. He said that those to which he had alluded were not in the enamel, but above that tissue,?the gum having receded in every case, the guttering, so to speak, being in the cementum. The subject was then passed, and " Separating the Teeth" selected for the next evening's discussion. Adjourned. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF BALTIMORE COLLEGE OF DENTAL SURGERY. The annual meeting of the Alumni Association of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery will be held at the college building, Baltimore, Maryland, on Friday morning, March 9th, 1877, commencing at ten A.m. All graduates of this college, and others interested in dental science, are cordially invited to bo present, and also at the Thirty- Seventh Annual Commencement, to be held on the evening of the same day, at the Academy of Music. Samuel J. Cockerille, D.D.S., President. William B. Wise, D.D.S., Corresponding Secretary. CLINICAL REPORTS. PHILADELPHIA DENTAL COLLEGE. Operation By Dr. James E. Garretson. REPORTED BY HENRY I. DORR, D.D.S. October Gth, 1876.?The patient, a lady of about forty-five years of age, very nervous temperament, had been for some time a great sufferer from severe pain in the right side of the head and face, which pain was of a neuralgic character. She had been under medical treatment, and the efficacy of all known remedies (outside of surgery) ...