Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Third Series, Volume the Forty-second. (Philadelphia: Printed for the College, 1920.)

Ejections to the recognised modes of dealing with contracted jaws, advocates two new plans,?(1.) When closure of jaws is due to nrm external cicatricial bands, he advocates slow division of the bands y a ligature gradually tightened day by day. A needle carrying ie ^read is passed in at the angle of the mouth, carried back between the cicatrix and skin, and brought out inside the mouth near the |ast molar tooth. Stretching by a mouth-gag afterwards is advised. I2-) When ankylosis of the jaw to the skull exists, the ascending ramus with condyle and coronoid process is to be excised from tie mouth as follows:?" A straight, sharp-pointed bistoury is introduced beneath the masseter muscle on a level with the last mo ar tooth of the lower jaw. Into the wound thus made the blade ol an Adams' saw is passed, and the ramus sawn through, ine