Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The teeth / by James W. White. 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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![and eyes, and other cliaractcristics of the in- dividual, when selecting teeth to replace lost ones; and the manufacturer should be skilled in the observance of the varied classes of den- tures required. To inattention in this direc- tion on the part of the dentist, or to dictation on the 2^art of the patient, are to be charged the unseemly incongruities constantly staring the observer in the face from mouths whose lost organs have been replaced in disregard of the universal law of correspondence. This law of correlation—harmony—run- ning through nature, attracts and enchants us ])y an infinite diversity of manifestations; the failure to recognize its demands by art is cor- respondingly abhorrent to our sensibilities. In the social gathering, a lady who appre- ciates the law of harmony, delights the eye by the taste displayed in her attire; another, though more elaborately and expensively adorned, yet failing to harmonize the details of her costume, attracts attention only by the impression of incongruity. AYo hear fre- quently from a lady who is selecting a bonnet, or from a gentleman purchasing a hat or other article of wearing apparel, the question to a friend, Does this become me? the query indicating the recognition that, how-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21202357_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
