A practical treatise on the diseases of the teeth, in which the origin and nature of decay are explained, and the means of prevention pointed out / by William Robertson.

  • Robertson, William, 1794-1870
Date:
1835
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Credit: A practical treatise on the diseases of the teeth, in which the origin and nature of decay are explained, and the means of prevention pointed out / by William Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Within the last thirty years that Dental Surgery has become the exclusive profession of a dis- tinct class of medical men. Mr. Hunter had not, therefore, the advan- tages which may be derived from long and ex- tensive practice, nor had he the opportunity of benefiting by the observations of previous authors; nevertheless without the aid of these advantages he approached nearer to the dis- covery of the origin of decay in the teeth, the most destructive disease to which they are liable, than any subsequent author. Mr. Hunter, in the commencement of his in- quiry into the nature of this disease, very justly observes that there is something more than mor- tification or a death of the part, that there is some operation going on, that is to say, some progressive morbid action, producing a change in the diseased part; and, after having minutely described the external character of the disease, and its first appearance on the enamel of the tooth; and most correctly distinguished the teeth and the parts of them most liable to its attacks; perceiving also that a disease originating in an inorganic substance could not arise from dis-
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