gum-lancet

Updated: May 15, 2025

Then, if it be the upper gum that requires lancing, you ought to go to the head of the child, looking over, as it were, and into his mouth, and should steady the gum with the index finger of your left hand; then, you should take hold of the gum-lancet with your right hand holding as if it were a table-knife at dinner and cut firmly along the inflamed and swollen gum and down to the tooth, until the edge of the gum-lancet grates on the tooth.

Pye Henry Chavasse - Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children