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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    OPINION OF AUTHORS. whole body as his hands and face.” The most general point of defection in the personal economy, is the mouth and teeth. This is nothing new, however. It has been so in other times, as well as oiir own, and the of- fenders have fallen under the lash of authors, both moral and satirical, of bjgone years. Horace, the prince of the ancient satirists, reminds the Roman ladies of the clownishness and inelegance of black teeth ; Chesterfield sets doA\m a dirtj’ mouth as a certain mark of bad manners; and the pious Lavatcr, in his entertaining Physiognomy, declares, that an epitome of the moral character may be drawn from the sight of the teeth, and that, conse- quently, when these are foul, the possessor must be a person of vulgar sentiments. On the other hand, teeth beautiful by Nature’s gift, or one’s own care, have always received the poet’s warmest pndse, and the cordial approval of every man of taste. That interesting and gorgeous allegory contained in the Sacred Book, styled the Song of Songs,