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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    THEIR USE IN MASTICATION. close of life in protracted age, yet there are such instances ; and, perhaps, it is not saving too much, if wc further advance, that under proper treatment they might he found as enduring as any of our otlier hones. Tlie pathology of the teeth, and tlicir es.sential use in the functions of the living system, though of so much importance in tlieir consequences to the individual, liave not hitherto occupied so prominent a jdace in tlie researches of science as they deserve, and, we trust, will yet obtain. At the same time there are many pretenders to this knowledge, who take handsome fees for doing a tolerable amount of mischief. Mastication suflicicntly prolonged renders digestion more quick and easy; hut, on the other liand, indi\iduals who swallow their food with very little chcM-ing, have almost invariably had digestion. And since our nourishment so much depends upon the agency of tlie teeth, it is of the utmost consequence tliat they he in a sound and healthy condition;—whole, in order to perform