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to the cure of diseases of the teeth and gums , and my readers may , perhaps , expect some account of it in this place . I confess , that in the perusal of the only work that I have met with on the subject , * I have found nothing satisfactory . The plan of the author is curious : he does not classify and describe
the disorders , and then proceed to their respective treatment in the ordinary way , but he places at the head of each chapter the name of an article of the materia medica ; mentions the time of taking it , the period of operation , and , after some general observations , enumerates the various symptoms which that particular medicine is calculated to
remove . If this mode of treating the subject be singular , the concluding portion of his work is yet more so ; tor there he g ives an alphabetical list of the diseases , and prescribes various specifics according to the description and situation of the affected tooth ! For instance , the remedy for " simple pain " in a molaris of the upper jaw , on the right side , is ammonia ; for the same in a molaris of the under jaw , magnesia ; fur the same in an upper incisor on the left side , phosphorus . " —pp . 96—97 .
This is very amusing ; and quite German . It suggests elaborately . What would he the correct prescription for a compound pain in an eye-tooth , or a pain affecting the whole head , and particularly one ear ; and what vibrations , vibratiuncles , and convolutions , would the branches of the fifth ami seventh
pairs of nerves be certain to undergo I When stopping the tooth fails to relieve the patient , we fear that there is onl y one more remedy left , reminding us of the dreadfully brief colloquy of Hostess Quickly with Fang , the constable , previous to the arrest of Falstaff : 11 . Quick . Mr . Vang ! have you entered the action ? Vang . It is entered !
The experiment of pulling out an aching tooth , and immediately replacing it , is of doubtful result , producing at best an equivocal success in most cases , as it will gen « rally be subject to ailments oi * some kind or the other ; loss of vitality in the bone , and rapid decay . Hence we ought to consider that if the consequences attending a diseased tooth are so numerous , painful , time-wasting , and expensive , the only way to avoid all these annoyances is , to pay a constant uttertion to the teeth- —in sickness as well as in health—and to go to a dentist at least once a year to have them examined . Many people neglect doing this because of the expense , and truly if they go to the " great Cartwright , or Parkinson , or Koecker , & . C ., the objection may be rational enough . But splendid drawing-rooms , princely furniture , silver basins , &c , are nothing to the purpose . tc What would it pleasure me , " as the Dio Dynamik der ZahnlHMlkiinde , b «» arbeitet nach don ( Jrundsiitzeii der Ilomdopathio , vou J 5 , CiutmaaD , Zahuarzt in Leipzig . ltfU 3 .
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Dental Surgery . t $ 5
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 285, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/21/
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