On the importance of dental knowledge to the medical profession.

Date:
1864
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Credit: On the importance of dental knowledge to the medical profession. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ON THE IMPORTANCE OE DENTAL KNOWLEDGE TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. The animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms have been thoroughly investigated in search of remedial agents. A vast amount of skill and ingenuity has been expended in producing instruments and mechanical appliances to facilitate the operations of the surgeon, and to relieve the various imper- fections and deformities to which the human frame is subject. Amid this general progress, one im- portant branch of medical mechanics, namely, dentistry, has hitherto been almost entirely neg- lected by the medical practitioner. A little con- sideration will demonstrate its great importance in the treatment of many serious diseases, and certainly no branch of knowledge, the possession of which gives the physician increased means of alleviating human suffering and prolonging human life can be considered derogatory. In such a B