The principles and practice of dentistry : including anatomy, physiology, pathology, therapeutics, dental surgery and mechanism / by Chapin A. Harris.

  • Harris, Chapin A. (Chapin Aaron), 1806-1860.
Date:
1882
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Credit: The principles and practice of dentistry : including anatomy, physiology, pathology, therapeutics, dental surgery and mechanism / by Chapin A. Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    EDITOE^S PREFACE. TT^EOM the date of its publication, in 1841, Harris's Principles -*- and Practice has taken the first place among Dental Text- Books— a precedence which the author, by careful revision of suc- ceeding editions, maintained for twenty years. In pursuance of the author's plan, the present editor made many additions, chiefly in the specialty of Mechanism, to the first posthumous edition, issued in 1863 and republished in 1866. The great advances made, since the death of the author, in Dental Physiology, Pathology, Surgery, and Mechanism, demand now, for the maintenance of the deservedly high reputation of the work, a revision in all its parts more complete than any preceding one. At tlie earnest solicitation of the author's family and of the publishers, the editor has, with much dif&dence, undertaken this task. He has carefully revised that part which an experience of twenty years, as a teacher, has made him competent to investigate. The other parts he assigned to gentlemen of acknowledged profi- ciency in their respective departments. To Thomas S. Latimer, M. D., Prosector in the Baltimore Dental College, was assigned Part I., Anatomy and Physiology, and a portion of Part II. Minute details of microscopical and physiological research, and the full discussion of speculative the- ories, are out of place in a text-book. Avoiding such minuteness, Dr. Latimer has- given the present state of Dental anatomy, physi- ology, and pathology in a manner worthy of his well-known fine scholarship and extensive professional knowledge. To Feedinaxd J. S. GoRGAS, M. D., D.D.S., Professor of