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Statement.

"Q. Is there any connection between that tooth and the eyes?

"A. The optic nerve is Dr. Myers here? He will confirm this-is peculiarly a cranial nerve in the fact that most of its entire length is in the cranium; there are no branches or ramifications from it that would be associated with any of the dental nerves.

"Cross Examination.

"By Mr. Taylor:

"Q. Doctor, isn't it a fact that dentists are often called in to relieve trouble in the eyes?

"A. Where there is a pathological condition.

"Q. That does exist, does it?

"A. Yes, sir.

"Q. Exists quite frequently?

"A. Very often.

"Q. And now, does advanced science seem to indicate that a great many human ills are due to the teeth? "A. Yes, sir.

"Q. A great many teeth are extracted because of

that?

"A. Yes, sir.

"Q. And that is another part of your profession? "A. Yes, sir.

"Q. That really has developed since you began to practice?

"A. Yes, sir; in the last eight years.

"Q. And the relation of the teeth to the remainder of the anatomical structure and nerve tissue is being developed every day and better understood?

"A. Yes, sir.

"Q. And that relation is becoming closer as developed by your profession, is it not?

Statement.

"A. I don't quite get your question, Mr. Taylor.

"Q. I mean by that, your profession is finding closer relation between the teeth and all other parts of the body?

"A. Yes, sir; more conclusively.

"Q. Yes.

"A. As far as septic poisoning.

"Q. And all that has been in the past few years?

"A. Past eight years.

"Q. You confine your work of course to dental surgery?

"A. Yes, sir.

"Q. You are not a specialist of any kind and are not testifying as to such?

"A. That is simply my knowledge of anatomy, yes, sir.

"Q. Dr. Myers is almost the dean of his profession in this city today, is he not?

"A. Man of high standing.

"Q. Highest standing both as a man and physician, is he not?

"A. Yes, sir.

"Q. And when he says he won't say the connection between the optic nerve and the tooth in this case was impossible, you won't disagree with him, will you?

"A. He qualified that statement; he didn't make that statement.

"Q. You heard him say he didn't say the connection was impossible?

"A. He said nothing was impossible.

"Q. Didn't he undertake to say in reply to a question that he would not undertake to say that this was impossible?

"A. I didn't hear him say that.

"Q. You have never seen Mr. Whipple professionally?

Statement.

"A. No, sir.

"Q. You are simply taking the testimony as it has been related to you or as you have heard it?

"A. Yes, sir; simply as a matter of clinical findings, that is all.

"Q. Doctor, all of the cranial nerves are more or less confined within a narrow space, are they not?

"A. Yes; all within the cranium.

"Q. And they are the most delicate texture, are they

not?

"A. Yes, sir.

"Q. Most sensitive, most susceptible to external influence, are they not?

"A. That would depend upon the nature of the influence.

"Q. There is nothing more sensitive in the body than the optic nerve unless it is a dental nerve?

"A. There is one more sensitive than that.

tic stands second.

"Q. It is highly sensitive?

"A. Yes, sir.

"Re-Direct Examination.

"By Mr. Baird:

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"Q. Doctor, you were called as an expert to give an opinion on the supposed state of facts. That answer you gave me was in the light of all of these modern developments in respect to which Mr. Taylor has been enquiring of you, was it not?

"A. Yes, sir.

"Q. You have no doubt there could be no relation between the two things, that is the injury to the tooth and the condition of the eyes?

"A. In this case this is simply a traumatic condition

Statement.

induced in the jaw in the breaking of this tooth, there is a simple fracture, there is no pathology, and as I understand dentistry there is no connection between the dental nerve and the eye.

"Re-Cross Examination.

"By Mr. Taylor:

"Q. There can be as much physical suffering from a traumatic condition as from any other?

"A. There can when it continues.

"Q. It is not a fact that suffering can be so intense as to produce permanent effect?

"A. Not having practiced medicine, I have never had that observation."

Dr. H. L. Myers, being recalled on behalf of the defendant, further testified as follows:

"Examined by Mr. Baird:

"Q. Doctor, when you were on the stand I omitted to ask you two questions which I should have asked you. Is there any connection between the nerves in the lower jaw and the nerves in the eye?

"A. Why, the optic nerve is the nerve of vision and the fifth nerve which has reference to the pain in the face is a nerve of sensation of the face. One is a sensory

nerve and the other is a nerve of sight sense; they are

not connected in that way at all.

"Q. The optic nerve is not connected with the nerves of the teeth at all?

"A. Not except in an indirect way.

"Q. Do I understand you to say that you diagnosed Mr. Whipple's troubles as optic atrophy?

"A. Yes, sir.

Statement.

"Q. Could you tell how long he had been suffering from optic atrophy?

"A. I could not.

"Q. Is that a well known disease, doctor?

"A. Yes, sir.

"Q. Of frequent occurrence?

"A. Frequent.

"Q. Do medical people know to what that is attributable?

"A. Yes, sir; it is attributable to a great many different causes.

"Q. Will you mention them, please?

"A. Atrophy of the optic nerve is divided into two kinds, primary and secondary. Primary atrophy is a condition in which the nerve shrinks, it becomes atrophied directly from the beginning, it does not have to be inflamed first and then followed by atrophy, it starts to shrinking from the beginning and those cases are due to trouble in the nervous system of the spinal cord usually. Secondary atrophy would be due to atrophy following an inflamation of the nerve, the last stage of the inflamation of the optic nerve, optic neuritis. That is divided. loosely into four classes of causes; First, ocular or diseases in the interior of the eye which would affect the nerve by direct continuity, we would say such as retinitis and such diseases around the nerve and involving the nerves in the ball. The second would be orbital and in those cases this is the immediate cause, orbital. If it could be proven that an injury to the orbit could be gotten by pulling a tooth in the lower jaw, which is not connected with the upper jaw, then we might prove the possibility of this being due to a direct injury. That is what would happen in the orbit if you would stick a stick into it, or if you would hit the man a hard enough blow, or if you would jam him in any way hard enough to break

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