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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    OF THE ENAMEL. THE Enamel is the external part of the tooth : its thickness towards its extremity is at the utmost one line *, and it is still less upon its face: it covers all the part which is out of the socket, and grows gra- dually thinner towards the commencement The twelfth part of an inch.