Excerpt from Twentieth Century Practice, Vol. 8 of 20: An International Encyclopedia of Modern Medical Science As the affections of the pharynx have already been treated of in another volume of this work, we shall consider in the following pages only the diseases of the mouth proper, that is of the part from the lips to the isthmus of the fauces, and also only those of the mucous membrane and of the submucous soft parts, not those of the teeth or of the jaws. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.