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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    <lo our teeth decay so much iiow-a-da_vs ? is a question frequently asked. In such a state of things, how fortunate! could a cordon sanilaire intercept its progress, or a general hoard of health assist us to a remedy. !\'otwithstand- ing, would the age, so chary of its comfort, but listen to the guides, much might be done: nay, carried across to that Elysium where “ aani dentes in sano ore is the sum of hap- piness, we might, {quid rides?) while Nature broke down in all her other functions, make sport, with a well stocked mouth, at decay's harmless efforts. Yet, until society, gro\\ ing wiser in more respects than the preservation of the teeth, returns to the simple manners of its ancestors, our beautiful countrywomen shall still have to regret its untoward attacks upon their charms ; and those “rarissimi rerum of the other se.x, so aptly designated by Horace, find it one of the saddest plagues of their toilette. 'Whatever be the actual causes of this change in the dental organs, these the i)ublic are not