A study of the degeneracy of the jaws of the human race / by Eugene S. Talbot.
- Talbot, Eugene S. (Eugene Solomon), 1847-1924.
- Date:
- 1892
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A study of the degeneracy of the jaws of the human race / by Eugene S. Talbot. 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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![a new ex[)ression of form, corresponding to new perfection of work in the anim.il machine ; in degeneration there is supj^ression of form, corresponding to the cessation of work. Elaboration of some one organ may be a necessary accompaniment of degeneration in all the others ;j,in fact, this is very generally the case ; and it is only when the total result of the elaboration of some organs and the degeneration of others is such as to leave the whole animal in a lower condition— that is, fitted to less complex action and reaction in regard to its sur- roundings than was the ancestral form with which we are comparing it (either actually or in imagination)—that we speak of that animal as an instance of degeneration. Fig. 20. '' Any new set of conditions occurring to an animal which render its food and safety very easily attained, seem to lead, as a rule, to degeneration ; just as an active, healthy man sometimes degenerates when] he becomes suddenly possessed of a fortune, or as Rome](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21202643_0068.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
