Excerpt from The Dental Cosmos, 1875, Vol. 17: A Monthly Record of Dental Science, Devoted to the Interests of the Profession

In such cases a repetition of the former treatment is not necessarily demanded, nor should it be indulged in until all other usual applications have been found to be unavailing.

It is also the knowledge of the likelihood of this occurrence that suggests at the termination of the first excavation, and prior to the introduction of the filling, the removal of all trace of acid, by the use of strong solution of ammonia or moistened bicarbonate of soda, and after drying the cavity, that its walls should be saturated with creasote or carbolic acid, with the view to utilize their antiseptic power.

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