The art of preventing the loss of the teeth : with instructions calculated to enable medical practioners ... to adopt the author's practice of treating the diseases of the teeth and gums including the stopping of decayed teeth, and curing of tooth-ache, by the use of the anodyne cement, etc. etc. : also, stating the improvements in fixing artificial teeth, and a description of the siliceous pearl teeth and teeth-renovator : with testimonials from their Majesties' physcians and surgeons / by Joseph Scott.

  • Scott, Joseph (Dentist)
Date:
1831
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Credit: The art of preventing the loss of the teeth : with instructions calculated to enable medical practioners ... to adopt the author's practice of treating the diseases of the teeth and gums including the stopping of decayed teeth, and curing of tooth-ache, by the use of the anodyne cement, etc. etc. : also, stating the improvements in fixing artificial teeth, and a description of the siliceous pearl teeth and teeth-renovator : with testimonials from their Majesties' physcians and surgeons / by Joseph Scott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have heretofore been generally made, are those of the teeth of the sea-horse, the elephant, and human beings +on all of which the saliva, assisted by the heat of the mouth, acts with such power as quickly to change their colour and dissolve their gelatine, after which they turn of a dark or black hue, their substance becomes soft, emitting a mixture of gases of the most offensive eflluvia, and finally putrifies, melting away, and mingling with the saliva. ‘Thus it becomes necessary to supply a succession of teeth, which occasions reiterated trouble and expense every two or three years, according to the constitution of the wearer, who sometimes destroy them in less than twelve months, notwithstanding their hand- some appearance when first placed in the mouth. The Siliceous Pearl Tecth, on the contrary, never change their colour, are incorruptible, and will last for life. It is universally known, that all dentists have been in the habit of using the crowns of human teeth taken from dead bodies for pivoting, and also for fixing on gold and other kinds of plates or bases, and De Chemant, pages 30 and 3], says, ‘ A dentist of Paris had an oppor- tunity of obtaining such teeth as he wanted from a person who attended the hospital called the Hotel Dieu. One day he took the teeth of a young man who had died of the small-pox ; these teeth were washed and in- fused in spirit of wine ; they were afterwards fixed upon a base of the sea-horse tooth ; but notwithstanding these precautions, these teeth inoculated the small pox, to