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Excerpt from Notes for a Memoir on the Pathology of the Teeth Mr. President and gentleme. - A few evenings since, at a meet ing of this society, a gentleman made the positive assertion that when carious teeth were properly filled, as he filled them, they would endure forever. An important desideratum, if true. The object, then, of dis cussing the anatomical character, the physiological intention, and the pathological condition of the dental system, claims our attention, to the end of ascertaining whether the dental organs possess a pathology or not, or how far the thirty years' experience of the impercipient faculties of this gentleman's assertion can be sustained; while it is the province Of these notes for a memoir on the pathology of the teeth to demon strate that the dental system holds pathological communion with the whole body, and that medicine possesses the power of reaching the abnormal changes in dental disease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.