An essay on teeth : comprising a brief description of their formation, diseases, and proper treatment / by Horace Wells.

  • Wells, Horace, 1815-1848.
Date:
1838
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Credit: An essay on teeth : comprising a brief description of their formation, diseases, and proper treatment / by Horace Wells. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Toronto, Harry A Abbott Dentistry Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harry A Abbott Dentistry Library, University of Toronto.

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    is frequently introduced, from the ve- hement pain of the tooth-ache, and with most constitutions paves the way to a far more dangerous disease than it is intended to remove, by its acrid and internally violent qualities, in the act of a fumigation, being inhaled; and the chemical oil which it leaves, within the hollows of the teeth, dis- poses them to blackness, and prema- ture decay; which, though less ob- noxious for the present, proves a last- ing enemy to the mouth and stomach.
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