Practical directions for preserving the teeth : with an account of the most modern and improved methods of supplying their loss : and a notice of an improved artificial palate, invented by the author / by Andrew Clark.

  • Clark, Andrew.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Practical directions for preserving the teeth : with an account of the most modern and improved methods of supplying their loss : and a notice of an improved artificial palate, invented by the author / by Andrew Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    oils, &c. may be used for mitigating the pain. If, in spite of these precautions, the disease continue its attacks, the best advice should instantly be pro- cured. It is in the early stages only that a cure can be confidently anticipated. But too often, from the slight degree of pain and almost imper- ceptible change in the appearance of the disease, the malady runs on, and is permanently established in the tooth before any means for its removal be adopted.