The principles and practice of dentistry : including anatomy, physiology, pathology, therapeutics, dental surgery and mechanism / by Chapin A. Harris.

  • Harris, Chapin A. (Chapin Aaron), 1806-1860.
Date:
1906
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Credit: The principles and practice of dentistry : including anatomy, physiology, pathology, therapeutics, dental surgery and mechanism / by Chapin A. Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. In submitting to the profession a Second Edition of his Dental Practice, the author is happy to avail himself of the opportunity to express his grateful appreciation of the approbation which the First has received. He trusts that the additions which he has made to the primary work will make the one now presented still more acceptable. The alteration in the plan, which has resulted from the effort at im¬ provement, has, however, rendered a slight change of title necessary, in order to express the character of the present book. In the First Edition the Anatomy of the Mouth was omitted, because a thorough knowledge of it can be obtained from works on General Anatomy. But it has been suggested that such works may not be at hand when wanted by the dental student, and the author has thought it better to furnish a description of the several structures which enter into the formation of this cavity. He has, however, confined himself to brief expositions of the parts ; not wishing to encumber the work, or distract the student with the consideration of matters foreign to the purpose for which it was written, and for which, he trusts, it will be read. He is indebted to Bourgery’s Anatomy, Quain and Wilson’s Anatomical Plates, Wilson’s Anatomy, and Smith and Horner’s Anatomical Atlas, for a number of the illustrations used in this part of the work. The Second and Fifth Parts embody the substance of two papers by the author, which were written subsequently to the publication of the First Edition. The subjects of them came properly within the plan of the present work. The object of the author in the preparation of this edition has been to provide a thorough elementary treatise on Dental Medicine and Surgery, which might be a text-book for the student and a guide to the more experienced practitioner; and he hopes that the modifications he has introduced, and the additions he has made, will entitle it to be so considered, at least, until an abler hand shall prepare a better. Chapin A. Harris, M.D., D.D.S.