A practical treatise on teething and the management of the teeth from infancy to the completion of the second dentition at about 24 years of age / By J. Paterson Clark.

  • Clark, J. Paterson (John Paterson)
Date:
1835
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Credit: A practical treatise on teething and the management of the teeth from infancy to the completion of the second dentition at about 24 years of age / By J. Paterson Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. THE object of the following Treatise is familiarly to explain the nature and_pro- gress of Teething, from infancy to the completion of the second dentition, at about twenty-four years of age. The arrangement of the Work, in its present form, was suggested by the explanations the Author was professionally called upon daily to afford his Patients. The idea of more than two Eras in teething originated in a consideration of the periods and manner in which the teeth usually cut the gums, and the difference of treatment required at the various stages of their developement. The primary teeth remain, as an entire.