Deformities of the mouth : congenital and acquired, with their mechanical treatment / by Oakley Coles.

  • Coles, Oakley, 1845-1906.
Date:
1881
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    states on the succeeding page that, in the foetus at the fourth month, at this suture each bone [i.e., each superior maxilla] is generally divided into two distinct parts from between the dentes canini and incisivi up to the bottom of the nose.* There can be no doubt from the above passage that Nesbitt was the first to find indubitable evidence of the existence of intermaxillary bones in man; at the same time it must be admitted that he never really recognized the importance of the discovery, which it was left to Goethe and Yicq-d'Azyr to fully establish, f In the present century the subject of the inter- maxillary bones in man has been very fully studied by G-. Fischer,| M. J. Weber, F. S. Leuckart,§ and * Robert Nesbitt, Human Osteogeny, London, 1736, pp. 90, 91. f The opposing claims of Goethe and Vicq-d'Azyr have been so fully discussed by the late Mr. G. H. Lewes in his Life of Goethe, pp. 342 et seq., that it is perhaps scarcely necessary to give the fol- lowing original references:— Goethe.— Dem Menschen wie den Thieren ist ein Zwischenkiefer- knochen zuzuschreiben, Jena, 1776; cf. also Zur Naturwissen- schaft iiberhaupt, besonders zur Morphologie, Stuttg. u. Tubingen, 1820, Band I., Heft 2, p. 199 ; Briefe an J. H. Merck von Goethe, &c, Darmstadt, 1836—letters written in 1785; and Aus Herder's Nachlass, I., 75. Vicq-d'Azyr's discovery is mentioned in Histoire de l'Acad. Roy. des Sciences, Annee 1780, Paris, 1784, p. 489, and Discours sur FAnatomie, (Euvres, vol. iv., p. 26. t Ueber die verschiedene Form des Intermaxillarknochen in ver- schiedenen Thieren. Leipzig, 1800. § Leuckart, Untersuchungen Uber den Zwischenkieferknochen des Menschen, Stuttg., 1840.