A treatise on the management of female complaints, and of children in early infancy / by Alexander Hamilton, M.D. ; Professor of midwifery in the University, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society, of Edinburgh, &c.

  • Hamilton, Alexander, 1739-1802.
Date:
MDCCXCII [1792]
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    low the ear, in fuch a manner, that it is capable of a verj free motioa from above downwards, Hnd of a confiderable one from lide to fide. As the rriotions of the lower jaw are necoflary for feveral purpofes, it has many miifcles attach- ed to it, fome of which are fixed to the temples and cheek-bones, and others to the neck. In each jaw there are Sixteen Teech, furrounded by a foit fpungy fubftance, the Gu7ns. The Teeth are of different fhapes, fome of them being fitted for cutting, and others for bruifing or grinding the food; hence they are divided into rcUtting and grinding teeth. The Cutting Teeth are (haped like wedges, and have only one root. They confill of the fix fore- moft teeth in each jaw. .j!.<.. > The Grinding Teeth, of whtct there are five, on each fide in each jaw, are much larger than the cutting ones. They have two, three, or four roots; and their furface on the upper part is un- equal, riling into feveralfmall points. The Teeth are all covered, in that part which is rot within the gum, -with a fine enamel. In other refpefts they are merely bone, and, like other bones, are fupplied witli blood-veii'els and nerves. All that fpace which the teeth of the upper jaw furround, is called the Palate or Roof of the Mouth. It has fomewhat the form of an arch, and is covered by the fame flcin v/hich lines all the contiguous parts. The palate is formed of two bones, which feparate the tsofefrom the mouth ; and it is terminated by a kind of curtain, v.hich hangs down from its back part over the root cf the tongue. This