An instrument especially destined to extract loose bicuspid teeth. The screw in the interior of the instrument allowed the hook to be brought to just the right point in each case (Campani).
According to Bell, dental caries is generally owing to a bad condition of the humors of the entire body and to a peculiar morbid disposition, rather than to external causes acting locally, although these latter may contribute, together with the general causes, to the producing of the disease.
Campani’s dental cauteries: The large ones for cases of post-extractive hemorrhage; the small ones for the cauterization of carious cavities.
Nicholas Dubois Dechémant.
This author was decidedly averse to the use of the file. For stopping carious cavities he advises the use of mastic, gum lac, or wax, if the cavity is large and funnel-shaped; this stopping, however, requires to be renewed frequently. But when the cavity, wider at the bottom, narrows toward the surface, one ought to use gold or, still better, tin-foil. The pulp ought always to be destroyed previously by cauterization.