A natural history of the human teeth, with a treatise on their diseases from infancy to old age, adapted for general information : to which are added observations on the physiognomy of the teeth and the projecting chin / by Joseph Murphy.

  • Murphy, Joseph.
Date:
1811
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Credit: A natural history of the human teeth, with a treatise on their diseases from infancy to old age, adapted for general information : to which are added observations on the physiognomy of the teeth and the projecting chin / by Joseph Murphy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    if It has often been observed—that books for general inform mation, on Medicine and Surgery, have frequently been productive of injury to individuals, who sought relief from the remedies prescribed in them. This is not owing to any fault in the books themselves, but to the injudicious use of medicine, and to the ignorance of the various symptoms of different diseases. In the chapter on “ Teething,*’ in this book, warm bathing and lancing the gums are recom- mended in cases of difficult dentition ; but it is not intended that every child, who is supposed to suffer from this cause, should be inconsiderately immersed in warm w'ater, or have their gums cut; neither the one nor the other should be resorted to without good advice, It is with the humble hope, and ardent wish, of contri^ buting to the health and comforts of society, wffiich a know^ ledge of the history and proper management of the Teeth would tend to ensure, that I venture to lay this Treatise be- fore the Public; and I trust it will not be found uninte- resting, or destitute of novelty. JOSEPH MURPHY. Leeds j 1811.