Guide to sound teeth, or a popular treatise on the teeth, illustrating the whole judicious management of these organs from infancy to old age : in which the author will attempt to show that the teeth of all persons which are constitutionally well formed, and who enjoy good health may, by proper management and care, be preserved to the end of life / by Shearjashub Spooner.

  • Spooner, Shearjashub, 1809-1859.
Date:
1836
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Credit: Guide to sound teeth, or a popular treatise on the teeth, illustrating the whole judicious management of these organs from infancy to old age : in which the author will attempt to show that the teeth of all persons which are constitutionally well formed, and who enjoy good health may, by proper management and care, be preserved to the end of life / by Shearjashub Spooner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    INTRODUCTION. Being about to present to the public, as our title page imports, a popular essay on the diseases and management of the teeth ; it may not be altogether inappropriate, in- asmuch as the work is not designed exclusively for the use of the dental profession, but for general utility, to render some of the principal reasons which have influenced us in undertaking, and guided us in the prosecution of it. And first, the great propensity to disease, to which, in this our country, the teeth are unfortunately liable ; and the consequent urgent necessity of some fixed and definite rules to guide the citizen to the means by which he may obviate the same, when it may be obviated, and •when it may not be, to point out, next the appropriate and only safe means by which it may be effectually remedied; at least, so far,as the individual case will admit of remedy. Second, the existing necessity of such a work ; there being none upon our subject, extant, that is at all applicable to popular use. Third, a laudable desire to contribute our voluntary, though feeble aid, for the object of exalting the abused pro- fession, of which we are a member, to that respectability which the imperious necessity of its existence in our country,