A practical treatise on the human teeth: showing the causes of their destruction, and the means of their preservation / [William Robertson].

  • Robertson, William, 1794-1870
Date:
1839
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Credit: A practical treatise on the human teeth: showing the causes of their destruction, and the means of their preservation / [William Robertson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the present age, if the instances of mischief pro¬ duced by their nostrums were not so numerous. As oue of my objects, indeed the chief one, has been to make the non-professional reader ac¬ quainted with the nature and progress of caries, and with the preventive and remedial measures which it is necessary to adopt, I have entered no farther into the consideration of the anatomical structure of the teeth and of the parts connected with them, than appeared to me absolutely neces¬ sary in order to make that part of the subject, which is hy far the most important, clear and in¬ telligible ; and this course I have pursued without hesitation, since the works of Hunter, Fox, and Bell, will furnish the most ample information on anatomical details, to those whose tastes or pur¬ suits would lead them to enter more deeply into this inquiry. The theories hitherto brought forward to explain the origin and progress of caries, and which have possessed most weight and influence both with the profession and with the public, I have considered it right to submit to a free though not uncourteous criticism; because they are not only inadequate to explain the phenomena of caries, hut arc cssen-