A manual of comparative dental anatomy for dental students / by Alton Howard Thompson.

  • Thompson, Alton Howard.
Date:
1899
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Credit: A manual of comparative dental anatomy for dental students / by Alton Howard Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Toronto, Harry A Abbott Dentistry Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harry A Abbott Dentistry Library, University of Toronto.

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    PREFACE My apology for the presentation of this httle book as a candidate for the favor of my colleagues, the teachers in the Dental Colleges of the United States, is, that there is a real and pressing need for a concise compendium of Comparative Dental Anat- omy for the use of dental students. The general works on this subject are not adapted to the special needs of the student of dentistry, and it is the mis- sion of this manual to select and arrange for him just the material he will require for the illumination of his studies of the human teeth by comparison with the teeth of lower animals and the philosophy of tooth forms, without going into the elaborate and cumbrous details of the subject. These de- tails can be found in the. larger works if he should desire to pursue the subject further. The sifting out of the special matter here pre- sented from the mass of material bearing on the subject in the literature of zoology has been the work of years, and represents the gleanings from many fields. Its matter and methods have been slowly evolved through the needs of the work of teaching this branch in the class-room, and it is with the hope that it will be useful to the teachers 3