A manual of the dental laboratory : its construction, management, and economy : the various implements and their manipulations : with laboratory notes and suggestions / by Charles Hunter.

  • Hunter, Charles.
Date:
1892
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Credit: A manual of the dental laboratory : its construction, management, and economy : the various implements and their manipulations : with laboratory notes and suggestions / by Charles Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    apartment constructed designedly for the object in view. And this leads us to the consideration of what are the essential and desirable points to be attended to, in deciding upon the position and form of the proposed structure. In coming to a decision upon these matters we are influenced by two considerations: namely; the desire to have a laboratory to which there is an easy access from the surgery; and second, to have an apartment so arranged, with regard to light, space, and sanitary amenities, that all requirements for a healthy and facile prosecution of the work shall be fully provided. The second of these conditions, it will be admitted, is the more important, so that, where both cannot satisfactorily be combined, readiness of access will be less considered than sufficiency of space, light, etc. Dimensions of Laboratory. — The space suggested by Faraday* as being suitable for a chemical laboratory is a room of 20 to 24 feet by 16 to 18 feet. Morfitt (an American writer on the same subject) advises still larger dimensions, viz., 40 feet frontage by 24 feet in depth, with 18 to 20 feet height of ceiling. A room of these dimensions we may assume (though the writers do not say so) is intended for the accommodation of a consider- able number of workers. The chemical laboratory, too, from the character of the operations engaged in it, may, man for man, demand a larger breathing space than that required by the dentist. But however that may be, the fact remains that the dimensions of the dental, as of every other laboratory, must be proportional to the number of those who are engaged in accomplishing work within its walls. Hence it is that in connection with the principal dental schools we find that the laboratories, which are * ‘ Chemical Manipulation,’ Faraday. 1 — 2
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