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This is one of those important subjects to which people are very seldom in the habit of attaching due weight , until too late for their own advantage . When we have a tooth-acheof the species of pain called , gnawing , beating s or unbearable —we then think of the dentist . When our teeth have become decayed , loose , or of sturdy inequality , then we think of the dentist . When we begin to find a lisp in our speech , or the
involuntary introduction of a strange whistle , then we think of the dentist . When our teeth fall out , we are compelled to go to him , and confess the manifold sins of commission , and still more of neglect , which have reduced our masticatory powers to the humility of potted beef , sago , infants' first food , and other spoon-diets . We long to taste of the roast pig which Charles Lamb so fondly eulogized ; but we shake our heads
at the crackling—which is the very best of it ! We are much addicted to a fine ripe Stilton cheese , but the crust of bread makes us tremble . Even the " kissing-crust " might resent our most insinuating overtures . In short , without teeth , and teeth too that can safely meet and master the difficulties attending the satisfactory appropriation of all the good things of this life , we can never attain to the possession of them without a mortification of body and spirit that must almost neutralize the desired enjoyment . The subject is treated in these " Practical Observations " in
a pleasing and popular manner , and proves " the advantages derived from a subdivision oi' the cliirurgical art . " Most people can recollect the prolonged cruelty of ignorant handling during their youth , under the fa ? ig of " family doctors ;* ' and
we have seen just the same infliction from the inexperienced kindness of a learned physician . Of course the deed was done ' quaai amicus \ Dental surgery , though it has improved to such a degree during these last fifteen or twenty years , is of ancient origin . It appears that the third Ksculapius , Hippocrates , Celsus , Galen , Avicenna , and others , studied and practised the art with considerable success , though mingled
occasionally with necromantic and other absurdities . Mr . Mallan informs us that a learned scribe gave the following prescription for the extraction of an objectionable tooth . " Take the grease of a green frog—rub the tooth with it—and it will soon fall out !" The author ' s account of the origin and progress of dental surgery , is erudite , interesting , and amusing . The analysis of the enamel in the second chapter , will probably surprise the Practical Observations on tlio Physiology «» i ( l Disease * of the Teeth , by John Mall an . Surceon I )« ntint . Srhloss . 1 H . S .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 281, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/17/
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