Principles of dental surgery : exhibiting a new method of treating the diseases of the teeth and gums, especially calculated to promote their health and beauty : accompanied by a general view of the present state of dental surgery, with occasional references to the more prevalent abuses of the art : in two parts / by Leonard Koeckel.

Leonard Koecker

Date:: 1842

Credit: Principles of dental surgery : exhibiting a new method of treating the diseases of the teeth and gums, especially calculated to promote their health and beauty : accompanied by a general view of the present state of dental surgery, with occasional references to the more prevalent abuses of the art : in two parts / by Leonard Koeckel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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PRINCIPLES OF DENTAL SURGERY. PART I. COMPRISING A GENERAL VIEW OF THE NATURAL HISTORY AND DISEASES OF THE TEETH AND THEIR RELATIVE PARTS J AND THE MOST APPRO- PRIATE METHODS FOR THEIR CURATIVE AND PREVENTIVE MANAGEMENT. CHAPTER I. General Observations on the Present State of Dental Surgery; and tfie Development of tlie Autlwr's Metlwd of Th'eatment. It may be assumed as a fact, that there is no branch of the healing art, so little founded on scientific principles as that of dental surgery. The practical part of this important department having been so long in the hands of illiterate men, incapable themselves of writing, we have been obliged to depend for our theoretical principles, and for all that was to be learned, otherwise than by practice and experience, upon the information of writers not practically ac- quainted with the subject. Hence, many pernicious and errone- ous theories and opinions have prevailed, owing to the authority which has attached to the names of such persons, while very little substantial and useful scientific knowledge is to be obtained from their writings; and it may justly be said that this science is at present in a great measure destitute of the necessary order and system. This deficiency frequently places the dentist in the most em- barrassing situations; in the absence of proper principles to guide him he will proceed at random, or at best, mechanically; and never be able to profit by his experience, nor to understand the full extent either of his own errors, or the good effects of his remedial indications.

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