The family dentist : including the surgical, medical, and mechanical treatment of the teeth / by Chas. A. Du Bouchet.

Date:
1850
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Credit: The family dentist : including the surgical, medical, and mechanical treatment of the teeth / by Chas. A. Du Bouchet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ness is essential to comfort in eating: and , again, their healthy state and regular position are requisite to beauty in man and woman, and to the perfection of the voice. These considerations, which might easily be ex- tended, are enough to justify any one in making the teeth a distinct object of attention. Without desiring in any way to disparage the admired labours of others, we have, in our work, endeavoured to supply a deficiency in placing before the public a popular text- book of Dentistry : and it has also been our aim to write in common terms wherever it was possible. For the time has come when the arts and sciences should be appreciated by the public, which will hardly think worse of the professions for ceasing to speak an un- intelligible language. Part I. of the work contains the anatomi- cal and surgical department of the dental art; and teaches the means of treating the teeth when diseased, of turning them to the best account in cases of partial decay, and