Opinions on the causes and effects of diseases in the teeth and gums, with practical observations on the devastating consequences of their origin, as ascribable to lateral pressure : demonstrated by delineations from nature of incipient decay and final destruction, intermediately producing toothach, tic douloureux, necrosis, absorption, loss of enamel, loose teeth, and spongy gums : in palliation of which, are submitted means of cure without extraction, interspersed with various relations and suggestions for the improvement & preservation of the masticating system / by Charles Bew.

  • Bew, Charles.
Date:
1819
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Credit: Opinions on the causes and effects of diseases in the teeth and gums, with practical observations on the devastating consequences of their origin, as ascribable to lateral pressure : demonstrated by delineations from nature of incipient decay and final destruction, intermediately producing toothach, tic douloureux, necrosis, absorption, loss of enamel, loose teeth, and spongy gums : in palliation of which, are submitted means of cure without extraction, interspersed with various relations and suggestions for the improvement & preservation of the masticating system / by Charles Bew. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEDICINES. So many and various are the nostrums offered for every case wherein the teeth and gums are concerned, that it would be to take up arms against a sea of troubles but to name them, much more to enter into investigation of their real or pretended merits. That any composition was ever yet prepared possessing the power permanently to remove the tooth-ache^ I have never yet seen, although I be- lieve I saw all that had obtained such credit on the' table of an illustrious foreigner, whose tooth, from disease and his own neglect, I was compelled to extract; by one of which, he, from the irritation it produced in his throat and stomach, considered himself poisoned, having had it ad- ministered by the mistake of his valet, instead of an anodyne from the apothecary, after the ope- ration. But though I have not seen this Monder, others may have been more fortunate, a\ ho have gone further a-field, and travellers see strange things.