The principles and practice of dentistry : including anatomy, physiology, pathology, therapeutics, dental surgery and mechanism / by Chapin A. Harris.

Chapin A. Harris

Date:: 1906

Credit: The principles and practice of dentistry : including anatomy, physiology, pathology, therapeutics, dental surgery and mechanism / by Chapin A. Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$TO THE THIRTEENTH EDITION. The continued demand for, as well as the exhaustion of, the twelfth edition of this well-known and universally used text-book, has stimu¬ lated the author to prepare a new edition with the care demanded by a due consideration of the needs of the dental practitioner and student. In the preparation of this new edition, every chapter of the entire work has been carefully revised, and, with few exceptions, important additions made to all of them. By omitting considerable matter that was either obsolete, or more properly belonged to works treating of special as well as kindred sciences, this new edition has been somewhat abridged as to the number of pages, and thereby prevented from becoming unwieldy. In the anatomical portion it was deemed necessary to add to the description of the bones of the jaws that of the entire skull. Many new processes appear in the new edition, and the already large number of illustrations has been greatly increased. Special care has been taken to mention the latest methods for constructing crown- and bridge-work and artificial den¬ tures, and the most approved systems for correcting irregularity of the teeth, fractures of the jaws, etc., etc. Many chapters have been re¬ written, and the entire work brought up to the present advanced standard of dentistry in all its branches. The author, therefore, pre¬ sents this new edition in the belief that it will prove to be more useful even than its predecessors, and meet the requirements expected of a text-book on such subjects as it comprises. Ferdinand J. S. Gorgas. Hamilton Terrace, Baltimore, Md.$