Lectures on the natural history and management of the teeth : the cause of their decay, the art of preventing its accession, and various operations, never hitherto suggested, for the preservation of such teeth as it is too frequently considered necessary to extract / by L.S. Parmly.

Date:
1820
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Credit: Lectures on the natural history and management of the teeth : the cause of their decay, the art of preventing its accession, and various operations, never hitherto suggested, for the preservation of such teeth as it is too frequently considered necessary to extract / by L.S. Parmly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    overpowers us in all the fulness of his defor- mity, and our City is a heap of ruins before we suspected his arrival at our Gates. A species of mortification is induced, which, though apparently seated in a minute part, extends its baneful influence throughout the whole bodv. J To those unaccustomed to extreme nicety, in respect to the mouth, this conclusion may seem extended beyond reasonable bounds, but it is not the case. The effect of this noxious matter is often so strongly felt by a bystander, as to occasion Nausea and faintness, which are erroneously supposed to arise from some other cause. The latent existence of this mischief may be com- pared to the rot, in wood, which extends to every part, and in the end is a certain destruc- tion to the whole structure. Thus the very part of our body which is meant for the support and prolongation of life, by preparing foj use the supplies which