A description of the new patent instrument for extracting teeth : also of a patent method of fixing artificial teeth / by J.P. De La Fons.

  • De La Fons, J. P.
Date:
1826
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Credit: A description of the new patent instrument for extracting teeth : also of a patent method of fixing artificial teeth / by J.P. De La Fons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that, till lately, in Russia, the study of Anatomy and the use of skeletons were forbidden by law. Notwithstanding these obstacles, we must still look with surprise upon the slow progress of the sciences of which we have been speaking—sciences, the importance and interesting nature of which, it seems natural to suppose, would have excited the ancients, who had souls for every thing great, to have discovered and recorded so much, that a complete system of Anatomy, and its kindred sciences, should have been transmitted to posterity with the other memorials of their greatness. If we look to the records of ancient times for information upon the particular science treated of in this pamphlet, we shall find, ourselves still more in the dark. The dolm* dentium, the distressing pain called the tooth-ache, must have been common in all ages, and among all nations; and,