Gerbaux on the teeth : with observations on the most frequent diseases incidental to the mouth &c. &c. &c. : a popular treatise addressed to the faculty and heads of families / translated from the French by a member of faculty.

Date:
1817
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Credit: Gerbaux on the teeth : with observations on the most frequent diseases incidental to the mouth &c. &c. &c. : a popular treatise addressed to the faculty and heads of families / translated from the French by a member of faculty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ception of a few individuals. Between the sixth and the fourteenth month after birth, the middle incisors of the lower jaw first appear, and are very soon followed by their antagonists of the upper jaw; the lateral inferior and superior incisors then follow. After these eight teeth come into existence, the four canine teeth shoot forth, and al- ways successively from the lower to the upper jaw. The four first small grinders protrude at two years of age ; the second, between the fourth and the sixth year, of- ten sooner. Towards the seventh year, the third or first large grinder shows itself, and that which follows it about the ninth or tenth year. Finally, the wisdom tooth,