Lectures on the natural history and management of the teeth : the cause of their decay, the art of preventing its accession, and various operations, never hitherto suggested, for the preservation of such teeth as it is too frequently considered necessary to extract / by L.S. Parmly.

Date:
1820
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Credit: Lectures on the natural history and management of the teeth : the cause of their decay, the art of preventing its accession, and various operations, never hitherto suggested, for the preservation of such teeth as it is too frequently considered necessary to extract / by L.S. Parmly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    renovate exhausted strength, when neglected, becomes equally the medium of inducing disease and decay; so that the first marks of mortality are conspicuous in a death or destruction of the most solid parts of the frame; from which we are led to conclude, that, in proportion to the health and soundness of the mouth will be the general health, soundness, and energy of the system; and the first sign of decay plainly proclaims to us, (though a hint we are not disposed to take) that Death is at the door, and has commenced his first approaches in the destruction of this important organization, the inlet equally to health and disease. Can the care of our Teeth then reasonably occupy too much of our attention ? At least, let us have recourse to those means which will prevent the constitution from being worn out by sleepless nights and days ol irritation and pain which no species of torture can exceed. It must surely be interesting' to every one