Manual of dental surgery and pathology / Thoroughly rev. and adapted to the use of American students and practitioners, by Thomas C. Stellwagen.

  • Coleman, Alfred
Date:
1882
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Credit: Manual of dental surgery and pathology / Thoroughly rev. and adapted to the use of American students and practitioners, by Thomas C. Stellwagen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. In introducing Mr. Coleman's 3Linual of Dental Surgery raid Pathology to the American profession the [iretiice furnished by tlie antlior rendei's it nnnecessarv for the editor to say more tlian will suffice to indicate very briefly his own share in its preparation for publication. The care which Mr. Coleman has bestowed upon liis work has left but comparatively few additions to be supplied. In no direction, perhaps, has the ingenuity of the American mind been more actively exercised than in the [iroductlon of an immense variety of instruments for the use of the dental surgeon. The difficulty experienced by the student in making proper selections from these lias seemed to justify the insertion of a special chai)ter devoted to their choice. A chapter on the present greatly improved methods of crown- ing teeth, has been added in view of this being generally performed by the operative dentist, and because of its bearing U[>oii the efforts now made for the ])reservation of the natural teeth and roots. Throughout the work have been inserted many notes descriptive of certain modes of treatment demanded by the peculiarities of our climate, or indicative of the latest and most approved systems of operating adopted on this Con- tinent. To accommodate the one hundred and twelve added illustra- tions, delineating some three hundred and twenty instruments and appliances, an increase in the size of the page has been