An appeal to parliament, the medical profession, and the public, on the present state of dental surgery / by George Waite.

  • Waite George Derby, 1804-1880.
Date:
1841
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An appeal to parliament, the medical profession, and the public, on the present state of dental surgery / by George Waite. 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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    However much I may hitherto have kept aloof from any obtrusion on the public, I now feel it a duty imperative on me to make this appeal; and the experience I have had, will, I trust, plead in support of a cause in which 1 may other- wise be only a feeble advocate. It has become a common remark, that loss of teeth is much more frequent of late years than formerly, that false teeth are much on the increase, and there is just reason to believe that many mouths have been sacrificed by Mercenaries, whose only ob- ject has been to obtain enormous sums for their pretended repairs. Before we proceed further, it will be well to enter into the many opportuni- ties which this profession affords for impositions of all kinds; hence unprincipled adventurers, workbovs from unscientific mechanists, decayed