The art of preventing the loss of the teeth : with instructions calculated to enable medical practitioners, heads of families, and others, travelling or residing in distant parts, to adopt the author's practice of treating the diseases of the teeth and gums : including the stopping of decayed teeth, and curing of tooth-ache, by the use of the anodyne cement, etc., etc. : also, stating the improvements in fixing artificial teeth, and a description of the siliceous pearl teeth and teeth-renovator : with testimonials from their Majesties' physicians and surgeons / by Joseph Scott, dentist.

  • Scott, Joseph.
Date:
1831
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The art of preventing the loss of the teeth : with instructions calculated to enable medical practitioners, heads of families, and others, travelling or residing in distant parts, to adopt the author's practice of treating the diseases of the teeth and gums : including the stopping of decayed teeth, and curing of tooth-ache, by the use of the anodyne cement, etc., etc. : also, stating the improvements in fixing artificial teeth, and a description of the siliceous pearl teeth and teeth-renovator : with testimonials from their Majesties' physicians and surgeons / by Joseph Scott, dentist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

    79/128 (page 57)
    human nature can devise. It is not likely, however, that any of my readers will attempt to make and place teeth in their own mouths, nor is it my intention to in- struct those of my own profession through this medium, I shall merely give an outline of the process of fixing as now practised by the most scientific dentists as well as myself. A model of the mouth is first taken; after which the number of teeth required are either constructed in one solid piece, so as to resemble both the teeth and gums, or separate teeth are rivetted on bone, or a gold plate, which has been previously fitted to the model. The teeth fixed on these plates are, according to the expressed wish of the wearer, natural or human, derived from dead bo- dies ; animal, or those which are made from the enamel of the tusk of the hippopotamus, or sea-horse, or the por- celain commonly called mineral or terro-metallic ; and this completes the whole process which is more or less serviceable and convenient to the wearer, according to the skill of the artist in adopting them to the formation of the mouth, and the anatomy of the jaws, the natural action of which is little, if at all, understood by some of our most fashionable dentists, as the following case will illustrate. A lady of distinction informed me that she had had two pieces, consisting of five teeth each, successively placed in her mouth within eight weeks by one of the