A dissertation on artificial teeth in general : exposing the defects and injurious consequences of all teeth made of animal substances, the corruptibility and dangers of which are at present acknowledged by the faculty : the superior advantages of teeth made of a mineral and incorruptible composition are fully demonstrated, approved, and recommended by the faculty and Royal Society of Medicine, by the academies of science and surgery, and by many eminent physicians and surgeons in Paris, London, &c. / by M. Dubois de Chémant.

  • Dubois de Chémant, Nicolas, 1753-1824.
Date:
1797
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Credit: A dissertation on artificial teeth in general : exposing the defects and injurious consequences of all teeth made of animal substances, the corruptibility and dangers of which are at present acknowledged by the faculty : the superior advantages of teeth made of a mineral and incorruptible composition are fully demonstrated, approved, and recommended by the faculty and Royal Society of Medicine, by the academies of science and surgery, and by many eminent physicians and surgeons in Paris, London, &c. / by M. Dubois de Chémant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ioi) quently more fubjed than the latter to the different alterations, which animal fubffances undergo. The natural heat of the mouth, and of food and drink, their operation, their acidity, and in fhort, the quality of the falivary juices, put this gelatinous part in a continual ffate of fermentation. All thefe caufes, which are more or lefs deffrudive, ac- cording to the conffitution or ffate of health of mankind, inceflantly ading either feparately, or altogether, foon occafion the diffolution and putrefaction of that dead fubffance. The miafmata and morbific particles, which exhale from the teeth of animal fubffances, are introduced into the ffomach by our fpittle, and the air, which we breathe, carries likewife into the lungs, thofe very putrid mia/mat a, which, by that means, are abforbed into the mafs of blood*. Since I have fixed my refidence in London, I have had oppor- tunities of making new obfervations and improvements conjointly with feveral eminent phyficians and furgeons. Thefe fads and ob- fervations confirm all that has been advanced, on the horrid fmell and the corruptibility of animal fubffances, through the rottennefs of the bones of the palate, on J o T tliv /OeKcib or me jaws. To corroborate this explanation, which I think adapted to give a new degree of force and evidence to my alfertion, I will add the fol- lowing fads. iff fad. Of feveral patients, who were fent me by Mr. John Hunter, I fhall only mention one. He had violent pains in his ffo- mach, and his breath was fo putrid and infedious that it was fcarcely bearable. This was attributed to two partial fets of artificial teeth of a fea-horfe, which he had got placed between fome of his teeth that * See J. H. Hunter’s Treatife on Venereal Complaints, from page 391, to page 398, and the Medical Tranfaftions, 3d vol. p. 328. Pancouke’s edition of the French En- cyclopedia, 67th delivery, the article furgery, vol. the jft, part the 2d, page 405, where the inconveniences of teeth made of animal fubflances are mentioned, as alfo the danger of tranfplanting human teeth, and the advantages and falubrity of thofe of the new in- vention.