An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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RIGGS, John Mankey

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

Penn. J. dent. Sci., 3, 99-104, 1876.

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



Subjects: DENTISTRY › Periodontics