The family dentist : including the surgical, medical, and mechanical treatment of the teeth / by Chas. A. Du Bouchet.

Date:
1850
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Credit: The family dentist : including the surgical, medical, and mechanical treatment of the teeth / by Chas. A. Du Bouchet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    art began to receive that undivided attention to which it is entitled both by its difficulty and usefulness. No less than thirty-eight treatises on the subject were published about that time.— These abound indeed with what is nowise useful at present, but still the spirit that pro- duced them is an evidence that the subject was beginning to be considered of impor- tance, and that time and experience alone were required to raise dental surgery to its proper station among the arts. The first attempt to classify diseases of the teeth was made by M. Fouchard, of Paris, who has been denominated the father of dental surgery. Before his time, the practitioners of the art seem to have con- sidered the teeth merely in their mechanical phase, taking little account of them as com- plex organic structures, entering by their own vitality into the formation of the living body. M. Fouchard had the merit of directing attention not only to the construction and separate treatment of teeth, but also to the