Mercury

1855 Boston Medical and Surgical Journal  
result being inevitable, no further interference was deemed advisable, and the patient was left with directions to take no medicine, except it might be a little morphine to allay suffering. He died on the eighteenth day, from suffocation. Upon a post-mortem examination, the superior maxilla was found in a softened and diseased condition in almost every portion. The tumor filled up the antrum of each side, and the cavity of the nose, and extended back inlo the fauces. Anteriorly it had broken
more » ... ough the antra, and extended over the whole surface of the jaw, with the exception of a'small space in the centre which was unaffected. The inferior maxilla was covered bv the fungous
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