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INTRODUCTION: Two processes of vastly different clinical characteristics-what we know today as "Aphthous Stomatitis" and "noma"-occupied the minds of dentists and doctors from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. The aim of this article was to look at their knowledge-concerning the differential diagnosis and treatment of these two processes. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Publications of the Spanish physicians and dentists from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries are reviewed and analysed. RESULTS: The great difference as to how both evolved and about their-consequences led to serious efforts being made to establish a-differential diagnosis and their respective aetiology and treatment. CONCLUSION: While the first goal can be clearly said to have been achieved, practitioners only had the resources offered by authors of antiquity and the Middle Ages to explain the aetiology and apply therapeutic treatment, since microbial theories of disease were not developed until the end of the nineteenth century and antibiotic treatment had to wait until the twentieth century.
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Noma/history , Stomatitis, Aphthous/history , Child , Dentists , Diagnosis, Differential , History, 16th Century , History, 17th Century , History, 18th Century , Humans , Infant , Noma/diagnosis , Noma/therapy , Physicians , Spain , Stomatitis, Aphthous/diagnosis , Stomatitis, Aphthous/therapySubject(s)
Eye Diseases/history , Genital Diseases, Female/history , Genital Diseases, Male/history , Ulcer/history , Eye Diseases/virology , Female , Genital Diseases, Female/virology , Genital Diseases, Male/virology , History, 20th Century , Humans , Male , Stomatitis, Aphthous/history , Stomatitis, Aphthous/virology , Translations , Ulcer/virologyABSTRACT
Richard L. Sutton described what he termed "periadenitis mucosa necrotica recurrens," now known as major aphthosis or Sutton's ulcer in 1911. He described "leukoderma acquisitum centrifugum" (halo nevus, Sutton's nevus) in 1916. Here, we summarize the 2 publications by Sutton, trace his life story, and comment briefly on these 2 diseases.
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Eponyms , Nevus, Pigmented/history , Skin Neoplasms/history , Stomatitis, Aphthous/history , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Humans , Nevus, Pigmented/pathology , Skin Neoplasms/pathology , Stomatitis, Aphthous/pathology , United StatesSubject(s)
Stomatitis, Aphthous/history , Textbooks as Topic/history , Breast Feeding , History, 16th Century , Humans , Infant , SpainABSTRACT
Se estudió en una muestra de 10.742 personas, distribuidas en tres grupos representativos de poblaciones con distintas características socioeconómicas y culturales, la prevalencia e historia de aftas bucales por parte de un grupo especializado en patologia bucal clínical y experimentado en encuestas epidemiológicas. La prevalencia fue determinada por el examen bucal y la historia por el interrogatorio. Se registró un 0,7% de prevalencia para el total de la muestra, con diferencias estadísticamente significativas para los grupos de diferente nivel socioeconómico. Los valores de historia de aftas bucales en estudiantes universitários de odontología fueron elevados (41,8%) y comparables a los obtenidos por otros autores en poblaciones similares (AU)
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Infant , Child, Preschool , Child , Adolescent , Adult , Middle Aged , Aged , Humans , Male , Female , Stomatitis, Aphthous , Stomatitis, Aphthous/history , Stomatitis, Aphthous/epidemiology , Socioeconomic Factors , ArgentinaABSTRACT
Se estudió en una muestra de 10.742 personas, distribuidas en tres grupos representativos de poblaciones con distintas características socioeconómicas y culturales, la prevalencia e historia de aftas bucales por parte de un grupo especializado en patologia bucal clínical y experimentado en encuestas epidemiológicas. La prevalencia fue determinada por el examen bucal y la historia por el interrogatorio. Se registró un 0,7% de prevalencia para el total de la muestra, con diferencias estadísticamente significativas para los grupos de diferente nivel socioeconómico. Los valores de historia de aftas bucales en estudiantes universitários de odontología fueron elevados (41,8%) y comparables a los obtenidos por otros autores en poblaciones similares
