The dentiste de la jeunesse, or, The way to have sound and beautiful teeth : preceded by the advice of the ancient poets upon the preservation of the teeth designed for the more intelligent orders of parents and guardians, and containing some useful hints to the faculty / by J.R. Duval ; translated and supplied with notes, by J. Atkinson.
- Jacques René Duval
- Date:
- 1820
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The dentiste de la jeunesse, or, The way to have sound and beautiful teeth : preceded by the advice of the ancient poets upon the preservation of the teeth designed for the more intelligent orders of parents and guardians, and containing some useful hints to the faculty / by J.R. Duval ; translated and supplied with notes, by J. Atkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![NOTES. — (1.) De Paw in his Philosophical Itesearches on the Americans vol, 1, sec. 1, p. ] 1, gives an account of this whimsieal custom among the Peruvians, and observes that the same mutilation is also practised in Congo and Matamba, in Africa as well as in New Guinea. (2) New Voyage round the World by Dampiere, vol. 2, chap. 16', p. M. Account of an Expédition to Botany Bay by Watkin-Tinch, p. 70, Blumenbach Mlectinnis suce craniorum dec. 3 and 4, tab. 27 and 40. < Collins has described the singular and ’aughable cérémonies which are observed during the extraction of this tooth ; in his account of the New English Colonv in New South Wales, page 563. (3) Il inc etiam videas Javanos ac cæteros In dos rariorcs ostendere dentium ordines, in quorom vacuos loculos ditiores aureos reponunt dentes. J. Bontii, de medicinâ Inawrum. lit). 4. (4) On the spirit of the manners and customs, of different people, by Demeûnier, book 9. chap. 2. (5) . ' cum septimus annus . , Transieris puero, nondum omni dente renato. ~ JUVENAL, Sut. 14, V. 11. (6) Nec minus in certo dentes cadere imperat ætas Tempore lucretii, de Naluia rennn, lib. 5, v. 672. In modifying the text my intention is to destrov an error which has been consecrated by time: it is not old âge which causes the teeth to dropout: but at this time of life, people are often deprived of them from other causes. This has not escaped the observation of H ippocrates who after having spoken of the loss of the lirst teeth, savs expressly (p. 241, Foesii) At qui postea nascuntur, ad seneitnhm usque rémanent. Anacréon also (ode 58) offers us a proof of this truth who in the mid- dle of decripitude, and after the pleasures of a voluptuous life, preser- ved his hoary hair and his old teeth ; and which is also exemplified in the East Indies, in Schoutten’s Voyage, vol. 1, p. 257. Bougainville’s Voyage, p. 11, chap. 3, and among the natives of Surinam. (7) Cum calceatis dentibus reniant, said a parasite in the Comedy of the Captives, by Plautus, act ix. scene ix. an expression which accords so](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28748232_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
