Plain advice on the care of the teeth / [D.A. Cameron].

  • Cameron, D. A
Date:
1838
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Credit: Plain advice on the care of the teeth / [D.A. Cameron]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Teeth at Guy’s Hospital, London. “ The operation of extracting the teeth, though not unfrequently consigned to persons who have no pretensions to professional knowledge, and, in many cases, even to the lowest mechanics, is one which nevertheless requires, for its judicious and safe performance, as much care and firmness, and as correct an acquaintance with the anatomy of the parts concerned in it, as many of the operations of surgery, to which a much higher degree of importance is commonly attached. That in by far the majority of instances, this operation is per- formed by mere mechanical force, without any very serious consequences occurring, may perhaps be granted; but it is no less true, that even in the most simple cases, the pain of the operation is greatly diminished by a judicious choice and application of the in- struments; whilst the frightful results which sometimes accrue from the employment of ill-directed violence, forcibly point out the necessity of some degree of surgical skill to I. .I