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RIGGS, John Mankey (1811 – 1885)

RIGGS, John Mankey (1811 – 1885)

1811 – 1885

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Laird W. Nevius · Page 32 of The Discovery of Modern Anæsthesia · Public domain

1876 CE

#3685

Suppurative inflammation of the gums, and absorption of the gums and alveolar process.

“Riggs’s disease” – pyorrhoea alveolaris. Treatment of the disease by scraping was introduced by Riggs.