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(dentistry, obsolete) Bits of waste metal mixed with bone, dust, etc.; lemel..
This absence of blood, which was in accordance with the external phenomena, led to the disuse of mercury, and to the substitution of the internal use of iron, ( limaille porphyrisée, ) in the dose of a “gros" daily, under the form of opiate, with tonics.
[I]f, therefore, a measured half-pint of limaille be submitted to the process, however rich or poor in quality, four fluid ounces of hydrochloric acid and sixteen of water would be such proportions as I think would meet every case.
I have with much pleasure listened to Mr. Bennett's paper on refining gold, and the reduction of limaille, but as I consider every dentist may not have the means of applying the dry process, allow me to state the mode I recommend, as being the less elaborate, and the less expensive. Limaille generally consists of gold, silver, iron, lead, tin, zinc, and bone filings.
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Limaille means (dentistry, obsolete) Bits of waste metal mixed with bone, dust, etc.; lemel..
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This absence of blood, which was in accordance with the external phenomena, led to the disuse of mercury, and to the substitution of the internal use of iron, ( limaille porphyrisée, ) in the dose of a “gros" daily, under the form of opiate, with tonics.
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