The anatomy, physiology, and diseases of the teeth / by Thomas Bell.

  • Thomas Bell
Date:
1829
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Credit: The anatomy, physiology, and diseases of the teeth / by Thomas Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    classes, by other, and perhaps more essential objects of attention. | The very brief period to which the majority of students have, even up to the present day, been li- mited, for the study of all the really useful branches _, of medical education, contracted as it has been by - a long waste of time in an apprenticeship, too often _ passed in the mere mechanical manipulation of the ‘shop or the dispensary, has, of necessity, restricted ! them to the acquirement of those branches of know- ledge which their examinations required. <A better state of things is however in progress: the necessity of devoting a much longer period to the higher classes of medical .instruction, is not only acknow- ledged by the profession, but officially recognized by the authorized sources of professional honours. In addition however to the cause above-mentioned of the dearth of information, on a subject con- fessedly of no trifling degree of interest, another, and that not less influential, is to be found in the un- professional character of those persons, to whom the treatment of the teeth has been too generally re-
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