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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    neath the gums without detriment to the child, than that the seed by its shoots should appear in due time above the earth. It would therefore follow that the disorders connected tvith teething tvill be best remedied by con- stitutional treatment, and the relief asserted to have been procured by scarification be obtained by means free from its objections. Our opinion and feelings are quite in unison with the following observations : “ When the physical and moral education of the infant have been badly conducted, it is delicate and irritable, and teething becomes productive of serious mischief, and may induce convulsions, diarrhcea, or water in the head. It would be inconsistent with the usual course of nature, that the development of the teeth should be productive of more pain and danger than the growth of any other part of the body; and it would be contrary to the unbounded goodness of divine Providence, that so many tender infants should be doomed by dentition to the severest sufferings, nay, to death itself. The