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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    mastication of the food, with regard to the salival mixture, as there is between the absorption of water by a testaceous powder and by the rigid claw of a crab. If therefore this preliminary part of digestion—mas- tication, be not duly performed, how can we expect the subsequent parts to be duly performed ? This cannot be done, unless indeed we suppose one part of the animal economy to be competent to assume the function of another part; as, for example, the stomach to perform both its own office and that of the teeth; a conclusion upon which no one will venture, who regards either experience or that prime law of nature in the body of man, by which every one of its multitudinous and mysterious parts is nicely adapted to its own respective office.* * The following observations may serve to give a familiar illustration of this point:—The gastric juice