Dental anaesthesia: painless tooth extraction by congelation.

  • Quinton, J. Richard.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Dental anaesthesia: painless tooth extraction by congelation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    society has existed, it seems impossible to reject the opinion, that with all the elevating, humanizing, and beneficent influences which advancing civilization spreads among mankind, it nevertheless exercises a disturbing and abnormalizing influence over the alimentary system of man, and hence, upon one of the most important set of organs of that system,— the teeth. It is rare, in these times, that a man can say, as Cornaro said at the age of ninety- jive,—“m?/ teeth have not changed since my youth” Dental disease is no longer the excep- tion. From having been sporadic, it has become endemic. It has so firmly established itself as to become recognised as one of the inevitable ills of our common lot, from which no one expects to escape. The chveller in the lordly hall, is no more secure against its intrusion, than he whose home is within bare cottage walls. The man of pleasure cannot stem its invasion of his joys, more than the son of toil his labours. The stalwart man falls as meekly at its approach, as does the tender infant. It follows man, step by step, in his passage from the cradle to the grave; and in the circumstance of man, ripened with years, going out of the world much as he came into it—sans teeth, we read the history of the dental sufferings and pains, which have cast their unwelcome shadows over the sud- shine of his life.
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