Guide to sound teeth, or a popular treatise on the teeth, illustrating the whole judicious management of these organs from infancy to old age : in which the author will attempt to show that the teeth of all persons which are constitutionally well formed, and who enjoy good health may, by proper management and care, be preserved to the end of life / by Shearjashub Spooner.

  • Spooner, Shearjashub, 1809-1859.
Date:
1836
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Credit: Guide to sound teeth, or a popular treatise on the teeth, illustrating the whole judicious management of these organs from infancy to old age : in which the author will attempt to show that the teeth of all persons which are constitutionally well formed, and who enjoy good health may, by proper management and care, be preserved to the end of life / by Shearjashub Spooner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    comfort and economy, to preserve the natural teeth, than to neglect and lose them, and afterwards require, as sub- stitutes, artificial ones. Hence we found the presumption, that a work like the one which we propose, upon this sub- ject, will be of general utility. The perusal of medical works by persons out of the pro- fession, may probably be of no advantage to them ; but the perusal of a judicious work upon the diseases and the best management of the teeth, especially in the present state of conflicting opinions on the subject, we think, will prove of essential service. And first, because, as has been be- fore remarked, persons generally are unacquainted with the most proper means to be employed for the best security of the teeth : second, because such is the structure, nature, exposure and liability to decay of these organs, that every, thing relative to their preservation depends upon daily .care, or a constant application of such of the means of preserva- tion, as are naturally and necessarily within the province of the individual himself: and another circumstance; the situation of the teeth is such, and they often decay in such parts, that they are not unfrequently screened from ,the eye of the pos- sessor, and even from that of an inexperienced operator, and defy his detection ; and their structure is such, that the possessor is not sufficiently admonished of their very de- fective state, by their appeal to his sensibi-lkiea, until that state is become almost entirely hopeless, and consequently operations for the preservation of them useless. Resorting to remedies for them in tin's state, is like a sick man in the last stage of some organic disease applying to the physician for relief, who, notwithstanding he may have an accurate knowledge of the character, symptoms, progress and tenden- cy of the disease ; and with the very best means for combat. lnS ft > y6*' ne can on'y palliate now, that, which in its inci-