The teeth, in relation to beauty, voice and health. Being the result of twenty years' practical experience and assiduous study to produce the full development and regularity of those essential organs / by John Nicholles.

  • Nicholles, John.
Date:
1833
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Credit: The teeth, in relation to beauty, voice and health. Being the result of twenty years' practical experience and assiduous study to produce the full development and regularity of those essential organs / by John Nicholles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    pression of the face is powerfully affected by the good or bad arrangement and constitution of these organs. In the absence of the proper number of teeth the jaw contracts and assumes the appearance of old age, the cheeks hang down, and the face grows morose and wrin- kled; if the upper teeth project too much, the mouth becomes deformed; if they fall within the circle of the lower jaw, the chin and nose approximate; if they be black or irregular, they give an expression to the face of so disagree- able a cast, that, though each feature be perfect in itself, the expression of the whole combined is even painfully ugly. The various expres- sions so produced must not be mistaken for character, for the two, though often confound- ed in idea, and almost always in speaking of them, are, notwithstanding, totally distinct from each other; the one varies with every impulse that affects the face, the other is unchangeable; the one is the reflex of the passions as they arise, the oilier is the result