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Title: Elementary and dental radiography
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Raper, Howard Riley, 1886-1978
Subjects: Radiography, Dental
Publisher: New York, Consolidated dental mfg. co. (etc., etc.)
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oughout its course. 57. Tn Cases of Insomnia, neurasthenia, Tnsanity and Kindred nervous Disorders. If Dr. Henry S. Upson, of Cleveland, were a dentist, his assertionthat dental lesions may, and do, cause insanity, would be met, not alto-gether unfairly, with the argument that, in the practice of his specialty.Dr. Upson had developed a rare case of myopia, and could no longer seepast his especial field and consider other etiological factors. But HenryS. Upson is not Henry S. Upson, dentist; he is Henry S. Upson, M.D.,Professor of Diseases of the Nervous System at the Western Reserve1 niversity, and Attendant Neurologist to the Lakeside Hospital, Cleve-land, Ohio. The situation as it stands to-day is this: Dr. Upson claims that im-pacted teeth and chronic alveolar abscesses cause insomnia, neurastheniaand insanity. He gives histories of radiographically illustrated cases,which have been cured by extraction of the impacted or abscessed teeth, THE USES OF THE RADIOGRAPH IN P/iXTISTRY 257
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Fig. 291. Alveolar abscess pointing externally. The abscess is caused by the only slightlyimpacted and not malposed lower third molar. and he asks a question: If a diseased uterus can cause insanity (and itis believed that it can), then why not dental disease? The nervous con-nection between the teeth and brain is much more intimate than that be-tween the uterus and the brain. No one answers Dr. Upsons question,and so far, no one has in any way tried to prove Dr. Upson wrong in hisbelief that the teeth are responsible for grave nervous disorders. Wemust then, in fairness, accept what he says as the truth, until we are ableto show wherein he is mistaken. To give you an idea of the importance of dental lesions as a causa- 258 DENTAL RADIOGRAPHY tive factor in the neurosis, as promulgated by Dr. Upson, I quote fromthe doctors book, Insomnia and Nerve Strain: Of the viscera responsible for the more obscure cases of nervousand mental derangement, I have no hesitation in designating the tee

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