Lectures on the structure and physiology of the parts composing the skeleton, and on the diseases of the bones and joints of the human body, preceded by some observations on the influence of the brain and nerves, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of London, in the summer of the year 1820 / [James Wilson].
- Wilson, James, 1765-1821.
- Date:
- 1820
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Lectures on the structure and physiology of the parts composing the skeleton, and on the diseases of the bones and joints of the human body, preceded by some observations on the influence of the brain and nerves, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of London, in the summer of the year 1820 / [James Wilson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The first bicuspis has generally but one fang, which is to] often crooked at its point ; its fang is however sometimes forked. The second often appears to have two fangs, sometimes distinctly separated, but more frequently appearing com- pressed together, one on the outside, and the other on the inside. The enamel passes a little further towards the neck externally and internally, than en the sides ; but in some bicuspides it terminates equally all round. In the upper jaw the bodies of the bicuspides are rather thicker than in the lower, the fangs in general are more decidedly double, and they are inclined a little for- wards and outwards. The first bicuspides in the upper jaw, in the shut state of the mouth, fall between the bicuspides of the lowerjaw. The second bicuspides fall between the second bicus- pides of the lower jaw and the first molares. The bicuspides are of a middle nature between the incisores and the molares, and in most animals the space which they occupy in the human mouth, is left vacant between the incisores and molares. THE MOLARES. The molares or grinders are situated in the ‘ais of the jaws behind the bicuspides. They are twelve in number, six in enon jaw, and three in each side. Those which are situated the most backwards, and which are called the dentes sapientiz, will be described separately, the present description will apply only to the first and second. The body of a molaris approaches something to a square form with rounded angles. The base of it, or grinding surface has commonly five points, three of these are on the outer part, and two on](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33091079_0442.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
