Studies on the Anaerobic Bacterial Flora of Suppurative Periodontitis

ing to Goadby1 is comparatively recent. In 1550 Ambroise Pare, chief surgeon to the king of France, recommended surgical treatment of the condition characterized by loosening of the teeth. More easily recognizable descriptions were made by Fuchard in 1746 and Gendarme in 1778, when they noted suppuration of the alveoli and gums as an accompaniment to the bone resorption described by Pare. The term "alveolar pyorrhea," meaning a flow of pus from the alveolus, was first used by Toirac in 1779. Nearly 100 years later, in 1867, Riggs made what is considered to be a classical