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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    62 dily submit to a severe remedy, when they know it is the best the nature of the case will possibly admit; nor indeed can a ratio- nal or satisfactory practice be established in any instance, without a complete knowledge of the subject, both in its natural history and present state; and so far as we are defective in either, so far we must submit to the dic- tates of chance, or perhaps, be the humble dupes of empiricism. From the careful at- tention to circumstances, caries will be found not so much the effect of chance, as is gene- rally imagined, it appears almost universally to be an organic mischief, implanted during the formation of the Teeth.—Popular Es- say on the Structure, Formation, and Manage- ment of the Teeth, by Mr. Fuller. London, printed, 1815. Mr. De Chemant, in his work, candidly ac- knowledges his ignorance of the cause of caries, and thus very properly expresses him- self on the subject.— (Page 5) “ Of those parts which enter into the com- position of a beautiful person, there can be no doubt, but that the first place belongs to the