Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Irregularities and diseases of the teeth. 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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![PREFACE. Of the following papers, the first two were pub- lished in the Lancet. They were written, at the request of one of the staff of that paper, with the object of concisely explaining the causes, nature, and treatment of irregularities of the teeth—a class of affections with which many Medical Practitioners, in the absence of a Dentist, are called upon to deal, and with which they are consequently required to be properly acquainted. The requisite knowledge could previously be ob- tained on]y by a considerable study of Dentistry, and these papers were therefore designed to make the points of real importance clear, without the necessity of wading through a mass of uninterest- ing matter. The remaining papers were contributed to the British Journal of Dental Science. They con- sist of reports of cases from my note-book, with passing comments on their pathology and treat- ment. They comprise in a small space an account](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21202709_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
