E W Fish
(1) It is shown in this paper that the infecting organisms in the parodontal sulcus are confined to the surface, but may be forced into the blood and lymph stream by traumatic interference.2. Local and general disturbances may therefore arise both as a result of the absorption of soluble toxic matter from the pocket into the tissues and also as a result of this traumatic introduction of organisms into the blood-stream.3. The effect of toxic absorption on the local tissues is destruction of the attachment of the tooth-pyorrhœa...
July 1937: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine