Ribes mentions a man of thirty-three who, in the Spanish campaign in 1811, received an injury which carried away the entire body of the lower jaw, half of each ramus, and also mangled in a great degree the neighboring soft parts.

He was transported from the field of battle, and, despite enormous hemorrhage and suppuration, in two months recovered.

At the time of report the wounded man presented no trace of the inferior maxillary bone, but by carrying the finger along the side of the pharynx in the direction of the superior dental arch the coronoid apophyses could be recognized, and about six lines nearer the temporal extremity the ramus could be discovered.

The tongue was missing for about one-third its length, and was thicker than natural and retracted on the hyoid bone.

The sublingual glands were adherent to the under part of the tongue and were red and over-developed.