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DENTOLOGIA: 
 
 A POEM 
 
 ON THE DISEASES OF THE TEETH, 
 
 AND 
 
 THEIR PROPER REMEDIES. 
 
 BY SOLYMAN BROWN, A. M. 
 
 WITH NOTES, 
 
 PRACTICAL, HISTORICAL, ILLUSTRATIVE, AND EXPLANATORY, 
 
 by 
 
 ELEAZAR PARMLY, DENTIST. 
 
 NEW. YORK. 
 
 1840. 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 On receiving the following poem, as a token of friendship from the 
 author, believing that it possessed no ordinary merit as a production of 
 talent and intellectual research, in addition to much valuable instruc- 
 tion conveyed in a pleasing form, I submitted the manuscript to 
 rigid criticism. It was carefully examined by two gentlemen of this 
 ■oity, who are as distinguished for their fine taste in literature, as they 
 are celebrated as poets and authors. These gentlemen urgently 
 recommended the publication of the poem, on the grounds of its use- 
 ful tendency, as an essay on a subject of general interest, and as a 
 production honourable to American literature. 
 
 It occurred to me that I might make selections from the various au- 
 thors whose works are in my possession, and append them to the es- 
 say, in the form of notes, illustrating and confirming the general doc- 
 trine of the poem. If these notes shall afford either rational amuse- 
 ment or useful instruction to any of my friends and fellow citizens, 
 my only object will have been fully attained. 
 
 Some years ago I had the honor of laying before the public my 
 views with regard to the profession which I had embraced. Having 
 previously enjoyed the advantage of a friendly intercourse with the 
 most distinguished dentists in Europe, I had gathered from them such 
 instructions as enabled me to adopt a decided course of practice, 
 and my subsequent experience has but confirmed and established me 
 in the opinions which I then presented to the world. 
 
 I am not aware that the attempt has ever before been made, to 
 write in English verse, a work inculcating the doctrines of dental 
 science, embracing the diseases of the teeth, together with the means 
 of their prevention and cure. On a subject so unpromising, I think 
 all will agree with me in saying, that the author has succeeded be- 
 yond all reasonable expectation, in his design of investing the sober 
 
 390045 
 
IV 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 form of scientific truth, in the eloquent and glowing language of po- 
 etic fancy ; and I cannot for a moment doubt that my professional 
 acquaintaces, to whom I most respectfully dedicate this little volume, 
 will be enabled to gain an adequate knowledge of the general prin- 
 ciples and real importance of the dental art, through the lucid medium 
 of this poem, in the most pleasing manner. 
 
 Within the last fifty years, very great improvements have been 
 made in the various departments of our art, but that which results in 
 the most enduring and substantial advantage to mankind, and which 
 therefore deserves to be the most highly prized, is the very perfect 
 manner in which the natural teeth ate now preserved in a sound and 
 healthy condition, by the skill of the well educated practitioner. The 
 success of a few individuals in this branch of practice, has induced 
 many to assume the name of demist, who are uiterly unqualified to 
 perform in a proper manner the most unimportant and trifling ope- 
 ration upon the teeth. Hence it is that we hear every day of 
 the painful sufferings and lasting injuries which result from the mal- 
 practice of incompetent pretenders to dental knowledge. Whole sets 
 of teeth aie daily sacrificed at the shrine of stupidity; and the evil 
 will never be arrested, until the good sense of ihose who have oc- 
 casion for the intervention of art, shall be more careful in selecting 
 the person to whom they intrust organs so useful, so ornamental, so 
 indispensable to health and comfort, as the teeth. So long as there 
 is no statute to protect the citizen on this subject, his common sense, 
 enlightened by experience, must be his law and his protection. 
 
 The operation of supplying artificial teeth, is one which for some 
 years I had relinquished, in consequence of being unable to attend 
 to it, and at the same time, to do justice to what I consider to be the 
 more important, and, therefore, the first object of dental surgery ; but 
 having had for more than four years past, the valuable assistance of 
 my kinsman, Mr. Jahial Parmly, whose mechanical tact and ingenui- 
 ty are not surpassed, I have associated him with me, for the purpose 
 of enabling him to devote his time exclusively to that branch. His 
 success during the last tw r o years demonstrates the great advantage 
 to be derived from this division of labor, by which each department 
 of the profession is practised by distinct individuals. It operates like 
 a similar distribution of labor in the other arts and sciences, ensuring 
 a greater degree of excellence in the results. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 v 
 
 The improvements that have been made during the last few years, 
 in the manufacture of mineral teeth, have induced me to make exten- 
 sive provision for conducting this part of the business, in the hope 
 that still farther improvement may bring this interesting branch of 
 our art to such a state of perfection, as to render them a substitute 
 in most cases, for human and animal teeth, which are subject to 
 speedy decay. Knowing no person whose mechanical skill and sci- 
 entific acquirements so well qualify him for such an undertaking, I 
 requested my friend, Mr. Brown, to join me in perfecting an art so 
 desirable, and promising so many advantages. From the rapid im- 
 provement which he has made in the manufacture and mechanical 
 adaptation of these teeth, as well as from my long acquaintance with 
 his personal character, I am happy in believing that he will add 
 one to the number of those who contribute to the dignity and useful- 
 ness of the profession ; the benefit, comfort, and convenience of whose 
 labors, will be acknowledged by thousands. If those who are inten- 
 ding to practise as dentists, would qualify themselves in a similar 
 way by going through with a regular course of practical instruc- 
 tion, with an experienced dentist, they would soon elevate a profes- 
 sion to its merited rank, which is now too often degraded by igno- 
 rance and presumption. 
 
 ELEAZAR PARMLY. 
 
 No. 11 Park Place , ^ 
 New- York. > 
 October ISth, 1833. ) 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 To Eleazar Parmly, Esq. 
 
 My dear sir, — I take the liberty to transmit to you, 
 herewith, the result of a few weeks’ solitary musing. It is an essay, 
 in verse, on your favorite science : — A short didactic poem, intended 
 to embrace some of the more general and popular views of that val- 
 uable art, in the exercise of which you have reared the superstruc- 
 ture of fame and fortune on the solid basis of intrinsic merit. 
 
 If, in addition to reputation and emolument, you have been cheered 
 in your arduous labors, by the smiles of the beautiful and the encomi- 
 ums of the wise, you may pass it to the credit of that urbanity, skill 
 and kindness, with which your surgical practice is so distinctly 
 marked. 
 
 I am well apprized that your unparalleled success in treating dis- 
 orders of the teeth, is not the result of accident. The enterprising 
 spirit that led you to seek a knowledge of your profession, in the two 
 most enlightened capitals of Europe, and the perseverirg industry, 
 which raised you to high rank in the city of London, before estab- 
 lishing yourself in your native country, are the proximate causes of 
 your distinguished prosperity. 
 
 It is now more than ten years since our personal acquaintance 
 began, and I have been long anxious to devise some method of tes- 
 tifying the warmth and sincerity with which I reciprocate your senti- 
 ments of friendship. The design of reducing some of the general 
 doctrines of dental science to a poetic form, presented itself favora- 
 bly to my mind, and seemed more especially proper, after the act 
 of favor by which you invited me to return to your family, after a tem- 
 porary absence, for the purpose of receiving your instruction, and 
 that of your accomplished associate, in the practical operations of 
 your profession. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 vii 
 
 I have reduced this plan to practice according to the very mode- 
 rate measure of my poetical abilities ; and, in whatever else it may 
 be found wanting, I trust it will bear the uncounterfeited stamp of 
 sincerity and gratitude. 
 
 The generous liberality which has marked your deportment to- 
 wards every reputable member of your profession, and more espe- 
 cially, the elevated charity which has led you to qualify several indi- 
 viduals for extensive usefulness in the practice of dental surgery, 
 will be remembered with gratitude, long after your personal exertions 
 in the cause of human happiness shall have ceased on earth forever. 
 
 The experience of past ages has accumulated upon the existing 
 generation, in the mighty results which we behold in the condition of 
 the arts and sciences at the present day. To augment this inestima- 
 ble treasure of useful knowledge, as it passes into other hands, 
 must impart exalted transports to the good man’s mind. 
 
 The anguish, deformity, and tears, which result from diseases of 
 the teeth, are among man’s real evils, and form a considerable item 
 in the catalogue of human miseries. He, therefore, who by his 
 public instruction, or private professional practice, mitigates or re- 
 moves these evils, is a public benefactor. That such has been your 
 happiness, is felt by a large circle of acquaintances, not only in these 
 states, but from many and remote portions of the civilized world : 
 and that you may long live in the peaceful bosom of your family, 
 to indulge in the consciousness of having contributed to the positive 
 enjoyment of so many sentient beings ; and to taste with a refined 
 and protracted relish, the sweets of friendship, fame, and fortune, is 
 the devout wish of your friend : — 
 
 172 Fourth-Street , 
 New- York. 
 April 20th y 1833. 
 
 SOLYMAN BROWN. 
 
CANTO FIRST, 
 
 ARGUMENT, 
 
 Invocation to living beauty as seen in the human countenance.— • 
 Importance of personal charms to the female sex. — Man a natural 
 physiognomist. — Mental and moral qualities mirrored in the fea- 
 tures. — Original beauty of the human race. — Beauty of angelic 
 natures when purified from the stains of mortality. — Subject of 
 dentistry proposed. — Universal law of nature in regard to human 
 teeth.— -Importance of good dental practitioners. 
 
CANTO FIRST. 
 
 No goddess born in blue-eyed Juno’s reign, 
 
 Or fair-haired sister of Apollo’s train — 
 
 No coy and quivered Driad of the woods, 
 
 Or laughing Naiad of the dashing floods — 
 
 Do I invoke ; — ye fabled forms — retire ! 
 
 Let breathing loveliness my notes inspire : — 
 
 To thee, my cherished friend ! the strains belong, 
 And living beauty animates my song. 
 
 This magic spell that mirrors every grace 
 Of woman’s heart, in lovely woman’s face ; 
 
 This speaking index of the polished mind, 
 
 In virtue pure, by virgin truth refined ; — 
 
 Is love’s own banner, gracefully unfurled, 
 
 To fix affection, and enchant the world. 
 
 Without its aid, how hard were woman’s lot ! 
 
 To sigh neglected, and to die forgot ; 
 
 Though nature’s genial fires unceasing burn, 
 
 To live unloved, and love without return ! 
 
 For well we know that all of human kind, 
 
 Read in the face the features of the mind ; 
 
 The soul’s bright forms forever fresh and fair, 
 Wit, worth, and modesty, are pictured there. 
 
 Say not — perverted taste alone descries 
 
 An intellectual light in radiant eyes ; 
 
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 DENTOLOGIA. 
 
 Nor think Lavater’s favorite science vain, 
 
 That guides the choice of every rural swain, 
 
 In search of worthy love: — for well he knows, 
 That when the graceful meadow-lily blows, 
 
 ’Tis genial spring ; and when the mantling vine, 
 Hound the gray oak its wreaths is seen to twine, 
 Laden with purple fruit — that summer’s showers 
 Have nursed to life the verdure and the flowers. 
 So, in the features of Myrtilla’s face, 
 
 The rustic Corydon has learned to trace 
 Each soft affection of her glowing mind ; 
 
 With what delighted and to whom inclined. 
 
 You say, perchance, “ Is woman then approved 
 For outward charms, and but for these beloved ? 
 Shall form and feature for all faults atone, 
 
 And mere external beauty reign alone ? 
 
 By reasoning man is mental worth despised, 
 
 And but for pageantry is woman prized ?” 
 
 ’Tis weli inquired ; but maik the just reply: — 
 As glittering stars adorn the cloudless sky, 
 
 And smiling rainbows, w’hen the stoim is done, 
 Announce the bursting splendors of the sun ; 
 
 So beams of lambent light that sportive play 
 In woman’s face, proclaim interior day ; 
 
 And modest sweetness, with that light combined, 
 Bespeaks her nature gentle and refined. 
 
 Thus, too, the cherub graces that adorn 
 The smiling babe in childhood's sunny morn, 
 Heveal the pureness of that virtue given, 
 
 The charm of earth and miniature of heaven. 
 
 Nor less does manhood’s firmer brow disclose 
 The master passion whence his action flows. 
 
JDENTOLOGrlA. 
 
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 Ifgiory, lucre, love, his heart inspire, 
 
 See in his lineaments the raging fire ; 
 
 If war impel, behold him charge the foe, 
 
 His eyes’ red lightning mingling with the blow ; 
 
 In search of gold, see meanness in his air, 
 
 And Gripus’ sordid wrinkles furrowed there : — 
 
 Or, fired with love, survey his altered mien ; 
 
 Fair vernal blossoms decorate the scene, 
 
 From every flower the honeyed sweet he sips, 
 
 And burning eloquence is on his lips. 
 
 In times of old, those happier golden years, 
 
 Ere man had learned to drink the orphan’s tears 
 And widow’s sighs, and count them richest wine, 
 What beauty decked the “ human face divine !” 
 Then all was loveliness : — the ruling soul 
 Held o’er the world, unlimited control ; 
 
 The forest knew no monster ; and the grove 
 No voice but that of melody and love ; — 
 
 While man acknowledged virtue as his guide, 
 
 The lamb and lion slumbered at his side ; 
 
 ’Twas then, nor thorn nor thistle cursed the soil, 
 But plenty crowned the gatherer’s pleasing toil, 
 Nor plague nor tempest in such skies appear, 
 
 But health and sunshine circle round the year. 
 
 And who can tell, when virtue soars away 
 To ranye the fields of unexpiring day, 
 
 Where Love unveils her charms to every eye, 
 
 And Truth unrobes his manly majesty ; 
 
 Say, who can tell, how beautiful and fair, 
 
 Those angel-forms — those heavenly natures are ? 
 
 Amid the bowers of ever pure delight, 
 
 Whence heaven’s unclouded sun excludes the night. 
 
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 DENTOLOGIA. 
 
 In fragrant groves arrayed in emerald green. 
 Where varying landscapes animate the scene, 
 Thou, sainted Mother ! find’st that blest repose, 
 Which sweet celestial innocence bestows, — 
 
 To friendship there, thy glowing heart is given ; 
 Thy hands, to all the charities of heaven ; 
 
 Thy voice, to melody ; thine eye, to see 
 The radiant bow that spans eternity ! 
 
 If nature t hus, instructive, deigns to trace 
 The soul in every feature of the face ; 
 
 If lovely virtue there displays her charm , 
 
 And guilty passions ring the loud alarm ; 
 
 Arouse, thou slumbering fair ! and learn to see 
 That, heaven commits thy destiny to thee. 
 
 Is virtuous love thy aim ? Deserve the prize : 
 
 Or friendship ? Know that here the secret lies : — 
 To be — and to appear what men approve : — 
 
 Their friendship thus is won — -and thus their love. 
 Be mine the pride in measured verse to raise 
 A plain but lasting monument of praise, 
 
 To that distinguished science, known of yore, 
 Designed departed beauty to restore — 
 
 The Dental Art, by Greece and Rome admired, 
 When woman to imperial thrones aspired ; — 
 Those mighty states were both to ruin hurled, 
 
 But lo ! their art survives to bless the world. (1) 
 
 Full well I know ’tis difficult to chime 
 
 The laws of science with the rules of rhyme ; 
 
 Tlain vulgar prose, my subject 'seems to claim, 
 
 Did not ambition prompt the higher aim, 
 
 The nobler pride, bv more laborious care, 
 
 To speak in numbers that shall please the fain 
 
DENTOLOGIA. 
 
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 To woman, love’s first melodies were sung, 
 
 In nature’s prime, when earth and time were young, 
 And every bard, in each succeeding year, 
 
 Has framed his lays for woman’s listening ear : — - 
 Nor let the grovelling soul that cleaves to earth 
 Dare to pretend to comprehend her worth ; 
 
 When pure — she’s purer than the virgin snow, 
 
 On Andes’ top, when summer smiles below ; 
 
 And more delight o’er life her sweetness breathes, 
 Than all besides that heaven to man bequeathes. 
 
 Since beauty thus bestows the kind caress, 
 
 And oft audacity secures success, 
 
 Be mine the task to join the tuneful throng, 
 
 And blend instruction with the charms of song. 
 
 When man was fashioned by the Power Supreme,- 
 Strange and mysterious as the fact may seem, 
 
 And cause of wonder ; to his frame was given 
 Peculiar structure by the hand of heaven : — 
 Imperious laws distinctively his own, 
 
 To other animated forms unknown. 
 
 Among these laws which science learns to trace, 
 Through every varying tribe of human race ; 
 
 From arctic regions, clad in endless snows, 
 
 To where the tropical sirocco blows, 
 
 As well where elegant refinement smiles,- 
 As far remote, among the ocean isles, 
 
 One common destiny awaits our kind ; — - 
 ’Tis this, that long before the infant mind 
 Attains maturity — and ere the sun 
 Has through the first septennial circle run, 
 
 The teeth, deciduous, totter and decay, 
 
 And prompt successors hurry them away. (2} 
 
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 BENTOLOGIA. 
 
 This every mother knows, though not aware* 
 
 How precious then the kind maternal care 
 That holds incessant watch, lest nature’s course 
 Should meet obstruction from some counter force** 
 For oft the predecessors, lingering, claim 
 Undue connexion with the vital frame, 
 
 And, like a monarch, vindicate alone, 
 
 The questioned title to their ivory throne. 
 
 So mothers, proud of each surviving charm, 
 Regard their daughters’ beauty with alarm, 
 
 Lest these to admiration should aspire, 
 
 Before themselves are ready to retire. 
 
 But nature’s course is fixed, and man must yield, 
 For ’tis but madness to contest the field 
 With conquering fate : and holy heaven withdraws 
 Its smile from all who violate its laws. 
 
 Be watchful, ye — whose fond maternal arm, 
 
 Would shield defenceless infancy from harm, (3) 
 Mark well the hour when nature’s rights demand, 
 The skilful practice of the dentist’s hand. 
 
 But use discretion:- oft imposture wears 
 The same external guise that meiit bears ; 
 
 And bold pretenders show consummate wit, 
 
 By duping others to abandon it. 
 
 Beware of those whom science never taught 
 The hard but useful drudgery of thought, 
 
 For while in indolence their years have run, 
 They ask the wealth that industry has won : — 
 Can charity for such desire success? 
 
 No, let them eat the bread of idleness. 
 
DENTOLOGIA. 
 
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 On just desert let all success attend, 
 
 And patient merit never want a friend. (4) 
 
 To thee, companion of my happiest days, 
 
 The general voice awards superior praise ; 
 ’Twas nobly won, by sacrifice of ease, 
 
 ’Mid raging tempests and through stormy seas. 
 
 END OF CANTO FIRST. 
 
CANTO S ECO N D . 
 
 ARGUMENT. 
 
 The first dentition, or the growth and progress of the milk teeth. — 
 Operation of lancing the gums ; fatal consequences of neglect, or 
 of inefficient remedies, — The second dentition, or the formation 
 and arrangement of the permanent teeth — Extraction in case of 
 interference, or mal-arrangement. — Distortion and deformity re- 
 sulting from negligence. — Perfection of the material of which the 
 teeth are composed. 
 
CANTO SECOND. 
 
 The first dentition asks our earliest care, 
 
 For oft, obstructed nature, laboring there, 
 Demands assistance of experienced art, 
 
 And seeks from science her appointed part. (5) 
 Perhaps ere yet the infant tongue can tell 
 The seat of anguish that it knows too well, 
 
 Some struggling tooth, just bursting into day, 
 Obtuse and vigorous, urges on its way, 
 
 While inflammation, pain, and bitter cries, 
 
 And flooding tears, in sad succession rise. (6) 
 
 The lancet, then, alone can give relief, 
 
 And mitigate the helpless sufferer’s grief ; 
 
 But no unpractised hand should guide the steel 
 Whose polished point must carry wo or weal: — 
 With nicest skill the dentist’s hand can touch, 
 
 And neither wound too little nor too much. (7) 
 
 Be prompt to act : — ’tis dangerous to delay, 
 
 Since life awaits the issue of a day : — 
 
 Reject the gentler means : — employ the best : — 
 Let unobstructed nature do the rest. (8) 
 
 This rule neglected, many a smiling form, 
 
 With beauty bright, and life blood glowing warm, 
 3 
 
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 DENTOLOGIA. 
 
 Its parents’ pride, a floweret in its bloom, 
 
 Descends lamented to an early tomb. (9) 
 
 Nor less the danger when the first array — 
 
 The infant teeth — alternately decay, 
 
 Or yield succession to a hardier race 
 With marked reluctance ; for, in either case, 
 Neglect will bring repentance in its train ; 
 
 In one, deformity ; — the other, pain (10) 
 
 Or fell disease ; — but timely care may still 
 Avoid the danger, or repair the ill. (1 1) 
 
 ]f pain ensue, and neighboring parts inflame, 
 Extraction is the cure ; and ’tis the same 
 If nature’s law, obstructed in its course, 
 
 Should meet resistance from opposing force : (12) 
 For this resisting force howe’er remote, 
 
 Meets in the dental art its antidote ; 
 
 Pain flies its presence ; anguish wipes her tear; 
 
 To hope’s fond vision rainbow-hues appear ; 
 
 Pale, trembling beauty hushes her alarms, 
 
 And beaux, admiring, own her added charms. 
 
 Now mark the contrast in some hideous face, 
 Robbed by neglect, of symmetry and grace : — 
 Echold those organs, formed on nature’s plan, 
 
 To serve important purposes to man ; 
 
 To form the sounds in which his thoughts are drest, 
 His wishes uttered, and his love confest ; 
 
 To fit his solid food of every name, 
 
 For healthy action on the general frame ; (13) 
 Behold these organs, wrested by abuse, 
 
 From wisest purpose, and from noblest use, 
 Deranged, displaced, distorted, set awry. 
 Disgusting objects of deformity 1(14) 
 
DENTOLOGIA. 
 
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 Such mal-formations hardier man perplex, 
 
 But, with more grief, afflict the softer sex : — 
 
 For when with grace, deformity is joined, 
 
 As one base passion desolates the mind, 
 
 So one contrasted fault alone disarms 
 
 All conquering beauty of a thousand charms. 
 
 Let azure eyes with coral lips unite, 
 
 And health’s vermilion blend with snowy white ; 
 Let auburn tresses float upon the gale, 
 
 And flowery garlands all their sweets exhale ; 
 
 If once the lips in parting, should display 
 The teeth discolored or in disarray, 
 
 The spell dissolves, and beauty in despair 
 Beholds her fond pretensions melt in air. 
 
 But learn the remedy : — the dentist’s skill 
 Subjects disordered nature to his will ; — 
 
 As great commanders hear without alarms, 
 
 The shouts of battle and the shock of arms, 
 
 And, when their troops, in broken ranks, incline 
 To wild confusion, bring them into line ; 
 
 So he — the master of the dental art, 
 
 Can order, grace, and symmetry impart, 
 
 Where anarchy had else sustained alone 
 The undisputed title to his throne. 
 
 Such benefits this useful science lends 
 To earliest youth ; — and yet its aid extends 
 To following years, assuaging mortal pain, 
 
 And oft restoring beauty’s flowery reign. 
 
 The human frame, offspring of heaven’s high will, 
 Displays throughout inimitable skill ; 
 
so 
 
 DENTOLOGIA, 
 
 No part defective : none that perfect love 
 Could prompt unbounded wisdom to improve. 
 
 The eye, the ear, how wondrously designed 
 To serve as useful allies to the mind. 
 
 The heaving lungs, that drink th’ aerial flood, 
 
 Imparting vigor to the vital blood ; — 
 
 The heart, that like a virtuous monarch, reigns, 
 
 And spreads delight through all its wide domains : (15) 
 How wondrous these ! — yet see the hand divine 
 By equal skill displayed in every line, 
 
 In every feature of the perfect whole, 
 
 That acts in concert with the moving soul. 
 
 To this great law, that governs every part, 
 
 And rules “ as perfect in a hair as heart,” 
 
 The teeth conform ; and hence it stands confest, 
 
 Their substance, form, and structure, are the best 
 That wisdom could devise for such a use, 
 
 And hence, defective, only from abuse. (16) 
 
 Not polished pearl from Ceylon’s coral caves, 
 
 Or California’s or Cumana’s waves ; 
 
 From Indian hills, Golconda’s lucid gem 
 That shines a star in Brama’s diadem ; 
 
 Nor gold of Ophir, wrought by Aaron’s skill, 
 
 To form the idol calf, and worshipped still, 
 
 Could act the part in nature’s general plan, 
 
 Assigned these organs in the frame of man. (17) 
 
 END OF CANTO SECOND. 
 
C A NTO THI 11 D. 
 
 ARGUMENT. 
 
 Apostrophe to Luxury ; — its effects on general health. — Intempe- 
 rance in eating and drinking. — Use of animal food. — Effects of 
 luxury and intemperance on the teeth. — Cleanliness; neglect of it 
 punished by gangrene of the teeth, and other diseases. — Fate 
 ofUrilla occasioned by her carelessness. — Caries, or decay of 
 teeth. — The tooth-ache. 
 
CANTO THIRD* 
 
 Oh Luxury ! the eldest born of wealth, 
 
 Thou foe to virtue, and thou bane of health ; 
 Insidious nursling in the lap of case, 
 
 Whose breath is pestilence, whosesmile disease ; 
 May suffering man yet see thee as thou art, 
 
 A greedy vampyre, feasting on his heart! (18) 
 
 Of all the ills that ante-date the doom 
 Of erring mortals, and erect the tomb 
 So near the cradle, shortening to a span 
 The fleeting life of transitory man. 
 
 The worst is luxury : — Infrequent flies 
 
 The lightning’s fatal bolt ; the lowering skies 
 
 Are seldom darkened by the whirlwind’s wrath. 
 
 Or loud tornado’s devastating path. 
 
 Beneath the ocean wave though some expire, 
 
 And others by the fierce volcano’s fire ; 
 
 Though savage war can boast his thousands slain, 
 On tented field, or bosom of the main ; 
 
 Yet few the victims of these fates malign, 
 Compared, intemperate luxury ! with thine. (19) 
 
 Wherever wealth and false refinement reign, 
 
 The pampered appetites compose their train ; 
 
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 DENTOLOGIA, 
 
 Remotest climes supply the varied feast, 
 
 But wisdom never comes a welcome guest ; 
 
 The gormand, folly, bids the poison pass, 
 
 And drains destruction from the circling glass. (20) 
 
 The harmless flock, to cruel slaughter led, 
 
 Crowns high the board ; for this the herd has bled, (21) 
 For this, the gay musicians of the grove, 
 
 Suspend forever all their songs of love ! (22) 
 
 Earth, air, and ocean, each its part supplies 
 Of sentient life, to swell the sacrifice ; 
 
 As though some fiend had sketched the darkest plan 
 Of bloody banquet for the monster — man ! (23) 
 
 Though teeming earth bestows on honest toil, 
 
 In every climate and in every soil, 
 
 Their proper fruits, by nature’s law designed, 
 
 The safe and luscious diet of mankind, (24) 
 
 Yet, see the race from flowery Eden stray, 
 
 To roam the mightiest of the beasts of prey ! 
 
 See sensual man still smiling with delight, 
 
 While bleeding life is quivering in Lis sight ! 
 
 But nature, sure to vindicate her cause, 
 
 Avenges each transgression of her laws ; 
 
 Beware, rash man ! — for every nice offence 
 Shall meet, in time, a dreadful recompence ; 
 
 Nor flight can save — nor necromantic art, 
 
 Nor dext’rous stratagems elude the smart: — 
 
 For,lo, in fearful shapes, a haggard band 
 Of fell diseases, wait at her command. 
 
 ’Tis thus derangement, pain, and swift decay, 
 Obtain in man their desolating sway, 
 
DENTOLOGIA. 
 
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 Corrupt his blood, infect his vital breath, 
 
 And urge him headlong to the shades of death. 
 
 No more his cheeks with flushing crimson glow ; 
 
 No more he feels the sanguine current flow ; 
 
 But quenched and dim his sightless eyeballs roll, 
 
 Nor meet one star that gilds the glowing pole ! (25) 
 
 Amid this general wreck of health and ease, 
 
 Where every folly generates disease, 
 
 The teeth, in spite of nature’s guardian care, 
 
 In all disorders of the system share, 
 
 Besides those ills peculiarly their own, 
 
 To other portions of the frame unknown. 
 
 If sloth or negligence the task forbear 
 Of making cleanliness a daily care ; 
 
 If fresh ablution, with the morning sun, 
 
 Be quite forborne or negligently done ; 
 
 In dark disguise insidious tartar comes 
 Incrusts the teeth and irritates the gums, 
 
 Till vile deformity usurps the seat 
 
 Where smiles should play and winning graces meet, 
 
 And foul disease pollutes the fair domain, 
 
 Where health and purity should ever reign.(26) 
 
 Behold Urilla, nature’s favored child ; — 
 
 Bright on her birth indulgent fortune smiled ; — 
 
 Her honored grandsire, when the field was won, 
 
 By warring freeman, led by Washington, 
 
 Nobly sustained, on many a glorious day, 
 
 The fiercest fervors of the battle-fray ; 
 
 Survived the strife, and saw at length unfurled 
 
 Our union-banner floating round the world ; 
 
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 Then found a grave, as every patriot can; 
 Inscribed “ Defender of the rights of man.” 
 
 Her sire, whose freighted ships from every shore 
 Returned with wealth in unexhausted store, 
 
 Was doubly rich : — his gold was less refined 
 Than the bright treasures of his noble mind. 
 
 And she herself is fair in form and face ; — 
 
 Her glance is modesty, her motion grace, 
 
 Her smile, a moonbeam on the garden bower. 
 
 Her blush, a rainbow on the summer shower, 
 
 And she is gentler than the fearful fawn 
 That drinks the glittering dew-drops of the lawn^ 
 
 When first I saw her eyes’ celestial blue,- 
 Her cheeks’ vermilion, and the carmine hue,- 
 That melted on her lips: — her auburn hair 
 That floated playful on the yielding air ; 
 
 And then that neck within those graceful curls,. 
 Molten from Cleopatra’s liquid pearls, 
 
 I whispered to my heart: — we ’ll fondly seek- 
 The means, the hour, to hear the angel speak ; 
 
 For sure such language from those lips must flow, 
 As none but pure and seraph natures know. 
 
 ’Twas said — ’twas done — the fit occasion came, 
 As if to quench betimes the kindling flame 
 Of love and admiration : — for she spoke, 
 
 And lo, the heavenly spell forever broke ; 
 
 The fancied angel vanished into air, 
 
 And left unfortunate Urilla there: 
 
 For when her parted lips disclosed to view. 
 
 Those ruined arches, veiled in ebon hue, 
 
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 Where love had thought to feast the ravished sight 
 On orient gems reflecting snowy light, 
 
 Hope, disappointed, silently retired, 
 
 Disgust triumphant came, and love expired ! 
 
 And yet, Urilla’s single fault was small: 
 
 If b) so harsh a name ’tis just to call 
 Her slight neglect : — but ’tis with beauty’s chain, 
 As ’ tis with nature’s : — sunder it in twain 
 At any link, and you dissolve the whole, 
 
 As death disparts the body from the soul. (27) 
 
 Let every fair one shun Urilla’s fate, 
 
 And wake too action, ere it be to late ; — 
 
 Let each succpssive day unfailing bring 
 
 The brush, the dentifrice, and, from the spring, (28) 
 
 The cleansing flood : — the labor will be small, 
 
 And blooming health will soon reward it all. (29) 
 Or, if her past neglect preclude relief, 
 
 By gentle means like these ; assuage her grief ; 
 The dental art can remedy the ill, 
 
 Restore her hopes, and make her lovely still. (30) 
 
 Yet, other evils may her care engage, 
 
 The offspring of an epicurean age. (31) 
 
 Destructive caries comes with secret stealth 
 T’ avenge the violated laws of health : 
 
 Dilapidates the teeth by slow decay, 
 
 And bears them all successively away. (32) 
 
 So, silent Time, with unresisted power, 
 
 Labors at midnight in the lonely tower ; 
 
 Corrodes the granite in the ivied wall, 
 
 And smiles to hear the crumbling atoms fall ; — - 
 Till all the mighty structure disappears, 
 
 A dream forgot, a tale of other years. (33) 
 
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 When caries, thus, the solid tooth destroys* 
 
 That sullen enemy to mortal joys, 
 
 The tooth-ache, supervenes : — detested name, 
 
 Most justly damned to everlasting fame ! (34) 
 
 They say who most have felt, and best should know 
 The power of this most execrable wo, 
 
 That when Pandora’s box of mortal pains, 
 
 Was first unlocked among the wondering swains, 
 
 To every vice its kindred grief was sent, 
 
 And every crime received its punishment, 
 
 Except intemperance : — no single ill 
 Could heaven’s irrevocable law fulfil, 
 
 The fixed resolve, th’ omnipotent decree, 
 
 That each offence should meet its penalty ; 
 
 Then all these mortal woes in one were joined, 
 
 And tooth-ache came, the terror of mankind ! (35) 
 
 Thou haggard fiend ! of hellish imps the worst, 
 
 To mercy deaf, by sorrowing man accurst ; (36) 
 Though cheerless days made desolate by thee, 
 
 And long, long nights of sleepless agony, 
 
 Have marked thy fearful reign in days of yore, 
 
 Thy power is crushed, — thy scorpion-sting no more 
 Affrights the helpless, for the dental art 
 Commands thy gloomy terrors to depart, 
 
 Then wipes from beauty’s cheek the tears that burn* 
 And bids her roses and her smiles return. 
 
 END OF CANTO THIRD. 
 
CANTO FOURTH. 
 
 ARGUMENT. 
 
 Remedies for the various disorders of the teeth. — Filing away cari- 
 ous portions. — Stopping carious cavities with gold foil. — Loss of the 
 teeth occasioning the necessity of substituting others — Of artificial 
 teeth — Eulogium on those who labor for the benefit of mankind. 
 
CANTO FOURTH. 
 
 Auspicious art ! before whose magic spell, 
 
 Disease and pain shrink shuddering back to hell. 
 Whose touch, like that mysterious gem of old, 
 
 That changed all baser metals into gold, 
 
 Restores the faded floweret to its bloom, 
 
 And saves the victim from the threatening tomb : — 
 Direct my song and (each me to rehearse 
 In the smooth numbers of enchanting verse, 
 
 Those varied stratagems employed by thee, 
 
 To soothe the pangs of frail humanity. 
 
 In nature’s vast domain, with curious eye, 
 
 Search through the earth, the ocean, and the sky ; 
 Ask of the beast that crops the flowery plain, 
 
 And fish that threads the billows of the main; 
 
 Ask of the bird that journeys on the wind, 
 
 And reasoning man for nobler flights designed ; — 
 If any link in wide creation’s chain 
 Of golden harmony, produces pain ; 
 
 Or, in the general frame, is found a flaw. 
 
 But from resistance to wise nature’s law I 
 
 And this resistance comes from man alone, 
 
 Who vainly thinks to shake th’ Eternal’s throne ; 
 
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 Who spurns the good to humble virtue given, 
 And madly builds himself another heaven. 
 
 Folly with wisdom holds unequal strife, 
 
 In bold infraction of the laws of life. 
 
 If then the teeth, designed for various use, 
 Decay and ache, ’tis only from abuse ; 
 
 And lo, triumphant art can well ensure, 
 
 At least a remedy, if not a cure. 
 
 Whene’er along the ivory disks, are seen, 
 
 The filthy footsteps of the dark gangrene ; 
 
 When caries comes, with stealthy pace to throw 
 Corrosive ink spots on those banks of snow — 
 Brook no delay, ye trembling, suffering fair, 
 
 But fly for refuge to the dentist’s care. 
 
 His practiced hand, obedient to his will, 
 Employs the slender file with nicest skill ; 
 
 Just sweeps the germin of disease away, 
 
 And stops the fearful progress of decay. (37) 
 
 Fair science, thus, with timely care combined, 
 Becomes the faithful friend of human kind ; 
 Reverses, oft man’s miserable fate, 
 
 And serves his cureless ills to mitigate : 
 
 Extracts the poison from his tainted breath, 
 
 And plucks the feather from the shaft of death. 
 
 From long neglect which nothing can atone, 
 Should caries excavate the solid bone, 
 
 Destroy the bright enamel in its way, 
 
 And lay the nerve quite naked to the day ; 
 
 Still dental science, subject of my song, 
 
 Invents expedients to redress the wrong. 
 
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 *Tis then the world’s bright god, so highly prized, 
 That earth and heaven are daily sacrificed 
 Upon its altar, wrested from abuse, 
 
 Performs in nature one substantial use : — (38) 
 Unlike the sacrilegious part it bore 
 At thundering Sinai’s trembling base of yore, 
 When Israel’s blooming daughters gave their gold, 
 That Aaron, frail and impious priest, might mould 
 The idol calf — unlike its task assigned, 
 
 To bribe, and buy, and subjugate mankind; 
 
 1 o purchase love and friendship ; and descend 
 A heritage where noble virtues end ; 
 
 To be, with those who basely covet it, 
 
 The villain’s honor, and the dunce’s wit ; 
 
 The shining claim that elevates the clown 
 To all the stupid mummery of the gown; 
 
 The lure by which the genius oft is led 
 To give the termagant his bridal bed ; 
 
 The current bribe to hireling virtue given ; 
 
 The bartered substitute for truth and heaven! 
 
 This idol god, that thus usurps the skies, 
 
 The artist now to noblest use applies ; 
 
 Transmutes its form with Caesar’s head impressed, 
 Or in iNapolean’s robes imperial dressed, 
 
 To soft and yielding lamina ; — with skill 
 The practiced dental surgeon learns to fill 
 Each morbid cavity, by caries made, 
 
 W ith pliant gold : — when thus the parts decayed 
 Are well supplied, corrosion, forced to yield 
 To conquering art the long contested field, 
 
 Resigns its victim to the smiles of peace, 
 
 And all decay and irr m.tion cease. 
 
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 Yet oft, through ignorance or negligence, 
 
 ’Twere hard to say, through lack of common sense. 
 The fatal spoiler works his secret way, 
 
 With noiseless industry from day to day, 
 
 All undisturbed, till, lo, the work is done 
 That leaves to art new conquests to be won. 
 
 ’Tis thus the solid teeth, from year to y ear, 
 
 By folly or misfortune disappear, 
 
 Announcing man’s inevitable doom, 
 
 And pointing to the portal of the tomb. (39) 
 
 But mark the triumphs of victorious art, 
 
 When sighing fair ones see their hopes depart ; 
 When speech unsyllabled offends, and when 
 The lisping notes of childhood come again : 
 
 When vicious chyle from undigested food, 
 
 Abates the vital vigor of the blood ; 
 
 Then — ever prompt to dry misfortune’s tears, 
 Again the artist’s magic skill appears. 
 
 In climes remote, where sacred Ganges flows 
 From Thibet’s mountains of eternal snows, 
 
 Or far beyond the golden Gambia’s source, 
 
 Where Lander sought the Niger’s mystic course ; 
 The lordly elephant, in hoary pride, 
 
 Toils through successive ages to provide 
 The ivory tusk; the fertilizing Nile 
 Breeds the huge Hippopotamus, whose spoil 
 Supplies new treasures ; — and the ocean wave 
 Nurtures the sea-calf in his rocky cave, 
 
 To furnish fit materials to impart 
 Increased importance to the favorite art. 
 
 And now, while every sister art aspires 
 To light her torch at more celestial fires, 
 
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 The Dentist, e’en, too proud to lag behind 
 The bold aeronaut who rides the wind, 
 
 Or the adventurous mariner that braves, 
 
 With bellowing steam, the fury of the waves, 
 O’erleaps the bounds to ancient science known, 
 And to all past experience adds his own. 
 
 Thus, strange to tell, is daring genius led 
 By truth and heaven, exultingly to tread 
 Untrodden fields in nature’s realms afar, 
 
 Beyond the milky way or polar star. 
 
 Behold the dental artist’s bright array 
 Of magic wonders glittering to the day ; — 
 
 The white stalactite from the mountain cave ; 
 
 The branching coral from the ocean wave ; 
 
 The crystal from the rock ; the gem that shines 
 With decompounded light from Indian mines ; 
 And alabaster ; and that yellow stone 
 That graces jealous beauty’s virgin zone ; 
 
 The brightest gifts of every varying clime, 
 Resplendent spoils of nature and of time ; — • 
 
 And see, obedient to his ruling will, 
 
 Their forms transmuted by his plastic skill, 
 
 Till, as when Cadmus, coveting to reign, 
 
 With teeth of dragons sowed the Theban plain 
 A marshalled host sprang vigorous from the glade, 
 In blazoned arms and towering plumes arrayed ; 
 So spring to light, while love her flag unfurls, 
 
 A shining panoply of orient pearls. (40) 
 
 With aids like these, from nature’s store supplied, 
 And following nature man’s unerring guide, 
 
 The artist bodly ventures to restore 
 The dental arch, till, perfect as before, 
 
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 The teeth in order greet the wondering sights 
 A theme of admiration and delight ! 
 
 Let servile tongues applaud the glittering state 
 That decks the vain, hereditary great ; 
 
 The circumventive arts of dark chicane, 
 
 That mark the general game of loss and gain ; 
 
 The statesman’s tricks, in search of sordid pelf, 
 
 To prove that none are patriots but himself ; 
 
 The feats of arms that strew th’ embattled plain 
 With mangled limbs, and crimson all the main ; 
 
 Be mine the task to render just applause 
 To those who toil in virtue’s nobler cause ; 
 
 Whose serious thoughts and labors are designed 
 To mitigate the woes of human kind 
 Whom works of usefulness and love employ, 
 
 Like Him who fills unnumbered worlds with joy. (41) 
 
 END OF CANTO FOURTH. 
 
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CANTO FIFTH. 
 
 ARGUMENT. 
 
 Apostrophe to health. — Sympathetic action of disease on the system 
 - — Destructive influence of disordered teeth on the lungs, digestive 
 organs, and nervous structure. — Influence of the teeth on health 
 and longevity, arising from their relation to the solid aliments of 
 man. — Importance of the teeth to the arts of eloquence and vocal 
 music. — The commander addressing his troops on the eve of bat- 
 tle. — The advocate at the bar of justice, pleading the cause of 
 injured innocence. — The venerable pastor exhorting his flock to- 
 pursue the path to heaven.— The fate of Seraphina. 
 
CANTO FIFTH. 
 
 Come, rosy Health ! thou pretty sun-burnt maid. 
 Ami laugh with Labor in the noon-day shade; 
 Awake with Temperance at the peep of dawn, 
 And brush the dews that deck the fragrant lawn. 
 
 Enchanting nymph ! how often have I seen 
 Thy quick elastic footstep on the green, 
 
 At summer eve among the reaper train, 
 
 The favorite belle of many a rustic swain ; 
 
 The village minstrel on the turf reclined, 
 
 To melting music all his soul resigned ; — 
 
 The hills, the dales, the fields, and woods around 
 Seem wrapped in silence, listening to the sound, 
 Save that one hoary rock across the plain, 
 
 Returned in echo every silver strain. 
 
 Gay, blushing Health 1 without thy freshening glow 
 Pi oti acted life were only conscious wo; 
 
 And earth’s unnumbered joys would end in pain, 
 
 If thou wert banished from the fair domain. 
 
 Be thou the blithe companion of my way, 
 
 Through cheerful years, to life’s remotest day ; 
 Though babbling fame should eulogize me not, 
 
 Nor fortune gild my solitary cot. 
 
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 Ye lovely fair, who deprecate the doom 
 Assigned by general taste to tarnished bloom, 
 
 Be wise in time — ’tis folly to delay ; 
 
 Cast all your vile cosmetic drugs away ; 
 Exchange the shallow artifice of dress 
 For nature’s more enchanting loveliness ; 
 
 And know that blooming health alone abides 
 Where chaste and temperate cleanliness besides. 
 
 As, when the sun from burning Cancer throws 
 His radiant fires till all the ether glows, 
 
 The spotted plague and fever’s frantic train 
 In pop’lous cities hold their ghastly reign, 
 
 By filth engendered — by intemperance fed, 
 
 Till half the living sink among the dead, 
 
 While pale affright, with desolating brand, 
 
 Spreads consternation through the trembling land ; 
 
 So, in the breathing microcosm of man, 
 
 Each slight derangement of the general plan, 
 
 Each local malady of every name, 
 
 Disturbs throughout the sympathizing frame. 
 
 But most the teeth, for various use employed, 
 
 Disturb the system when themselves destroyed ; (42) 
 For when these organs yielding to decay, 
 
 In morbid exhalations waste away, 
 
 The vital air, from heaven’s aerial flood, 
 
 That warms with life the circulating blood, 
 
 Bears to the heaving lungs the deadly bane, 
 
 Where all its noxious qualities remain, 
 
 While every breath the poisonous draught repeats, 
 And spreads disease with every pulse that beats. (43) 
 
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 Nor less the nervous sympathy conveys 
 Each dental malady a thousand ways, (44) 
 
 For, as the witching music of the lyre, 
 
 Is heard along each vibratory wire, 
 
 What time the heaven-instructed minstrel flings 
 His hurried hand among the magic strings : — 
 So when disease invades the dental arch, 
 
 And strides in anguish on his angry march, 
 
 His burning touch, like the electric flame, 
 
 Flashes through every fibre of the frame ; 
 
 Fever ensues, with all its raging fires, 
 
 And oft the maniac sufferer expires. (45) 
 
 And yet of all the evils that accrue 
 From loss of teeth, though neither small nor few, 
 The chief is this ; — ’tis nature’s general plan, 
 That all the solid aliments of man, 
 
 Before admission to the secret shrine, 
 
 Where vital chemistry, with skill divine, 
 Transforms the cruder mass to milky chyme, 
 
 By nature’s metamorphosis sublime, — 
 
 Should suffer comminution ; — hence we find 
 The dental organs formed to cut, and grind, 
 
 And masticate the food : — this rightly done, 
 
 The process of digestion, well begun, 
 
 Results in health to each dependant part, 
 
 That feels the living impulse of the heart. (46) 
 
 But when, from loss of teeth, the food must pass, 
 A crude, and rigid, and unbroken mass. 
 
 To the digestive organs : who can know, 
 
 What various forms of complicated wo, 
 
 May rise terrific from that single source ? (47) 
 
 For nature, once resisted in her course, 
 
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 Breeds frightful things — a monstrous progeny ! 
 Consumption, fevers, palsy, leprosy, 
 
 The hobbling gout, that chides, at every breath, 
 
 The lingering pace of alb destroying death ; 
 
 And apoplexy, dragging to his doom 
 The half surviving victim of the tomb. 
 
 See thus the mortal life of erring man, 
 
 Reduced by vice and folly to a span ; 
 
 And years of joy alloted him below, 
 
 Exchanged for fleeting months of bitter wo 1 
 
 The Power Supreme, who gave all being birth. 
 
 And fashioned man the sovereign lord of earth, 
 Free-will and understanding both bestowed, 
 
 The likeness and the image of his God ; 
 
 And gave what beast, bird, fish, could never reach, 
 The all-controlling attribute of speech. 
 Transcendantgift ! that elevates our kind 
 To all the lofty pleasures of the mind ; 
 
 To social joys ; — to all the polished arts, 
 
 That spring from sympathy of kindred hearis ! 
 
 This power of speech, in which are nicely wrought. 
 All shades of feeling, and all forms of thought ; 
 
 The silver cord that binds all human kind; 
 
 The circulating medium of the mind ; — 
 
 Results from organs formed with heavenly art, 
 
 To act in concert their appointed part. 
 
 With these the dentals hold the foremost place, 
 Since, to their loss or injury, we trace 
 The greater part of those imperfect sounds 
 With which the general speech of man abounds. 
 
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 Behold the orator, in church or state, 
 
 When warm persuasion, or when cool debate 
 Impels the common mind to daring deeds, 
 
 While virtue triumphs, or a nation bleeds. 
 
 His vocal organs, trained with patient skill, 
 
 Perform their part, obedient to his will. 
 
 If rampant war, with all its dire alarms, 
 
 Employ his eloquence ; the shock of arms, 
 
 The shouts of armies, and their dying groans, 
 
 Roll on his quivering lips in silver tones, 
 
 While murmuring crowds, impatient still to go, 
 
 Rush to the pathway leading to the foe ! 
 
 If lovely innocence, when fair and young, 
 
 Fall by the vile seducer’s lying tongue, 
 
 And seek redress where justice holds her throne, 
 
 The trembling wretch, unfriended and alone, 
 
 And bathed in bitter tears, invokes the laws, 
 
 And calls on heaven to vindicate her cause : — 
 
 The orator appears : — his searching glance, 
 
 A moment, eyes the culprit wretch askance, 
 
 That crushed the bleeding flower: — words follow next, 
 And as the foaming mountain torrent, vext 
 By the projecting cliff, in angry bound, 
 
 Decends in cataracts, with thundering sound, 
 
 Till all the desert wild, and savage rock, 
 
 And hoary mountain, tremble at the shock, 
 
 So does the stream of eloquence impart 
 A palsied shuddering to the villain’s heart ! 
 
 The listening crowd reply with loud acclaim, 
 
 While Emmet lives — immortal heir of fame ! 
 
 On yonder hill, which freshening shades invest, 
 
 Beneath whose spreading boughs forever rest 
 
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 The mouldering ashes of the son and sire, 
 
 The village church erects its modest spire. 
 
 Behold, each Sabbath morn, with measured pace, 
 
 The silent groups that seek that hallowed place, 
 
 And mark, how meek devotion worships there, 
 
 With heart uplifted in the hour of prayer. 
 
 The morning song of love is sweetly sung, 
 
 While heaven’s own flame inspires each tuneful tongue 
 And see — the venerable man appears, 
 
 White with the hoary frosts of threescore years ; — 
 The good old man, whose useful hours have flown, 
 
 To sooth all others’ sorrows but his own ; — 
 
 Whose daily labors to mankind are given, 
 
 In charity, but all his heart to heaven. 
 
 So pure the life this virtuous man has passed, 
 
 That all his powers are perfect to the last ; 
 
 No borrowed lock to grace his brow aspires ; 
 
 No optic glass his vigorous eye requires ; 
 
 He lacks no single tooth that nature gave, 
 
 Nor asks a staff to guide him to the grave. (48) 
 
 With voice subdued, and unobtrusive mein, 
 
 He speaks of heaven , — he paints the flowery scene, 
 Where angel-natures — forms of purest love, 
 
 Meet in the bowers of innocence above, 
 
 To drink at living fountains, and be fed 
 On fruits immortal, and the living bread, 
 
 Till gushing tears fall fast from every eye, 
 
 And faith and hope look smiling to the sky. 
 
 Yet, in that choir that sung the morning song, 
 
 One vacant seat afflicts the listening throng ; 
 
 One well known voice, admired so oft before. 
 
 For sweetest melody, is heard no more. 
 
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 Is Seraphina dead, whose melting strains 
 
 Had won the hearts of all the neighbouring swains ? 
 
 Or does she now forsake the house of prayer, 
 
 And spurn her venerable pastor’s care ? 
 
 Unjust suspicion ! tarnish not her fame, 
 
 Nor let reproach attaint her spotless name ; 
 
 For while her mellow voice obeyed her will, 
 
 She fondly lingered our musician still ; 
 
 And though by cruel fate compelled to part, 
 
 She leaves us all the homage of her heart. 
 
 To lonly solitude she gives her hours, 
 
 In shady copse, or shadier garden-bowers : — 
 
 In silent grief, and unconsoled, she pines, 
 
 And scarce to heaven’s high will her soul resigns. 
 For, lo, the heavenly music of her lip — 
 
 So sweet, the laboring bees might stop to sip, 
 
 Has passed away ; discordant notes succeed, 
 
 And Seraphina’s bosom lives to bleed. 
 
 Ye ask the cause : — by premature decay, 
 
 Two of her dental pearls have passed away ; 
 
 The two essential to those perfect strains, 
 
 That charm the soul when heavenly music reigns. 
 But fly, ye swains, to Seraphina fly, 
 
 And bid her fastly flowing tears be dry ; 
 
 Haste to her cottage, where in vain she seeks 
 To wipe the burning deluge from her cheeks ; 
 
 And when you find her, soothe her frantic mind, 
 And bid her cast her sorrows to the wind ; 
 
 In secret whisper this kind truth impart ; — 
 
 There is a remedy : — the dental art 
 Can every varying tone with ease restore, 
 
 And give thee music sweeter than before ! — 
 
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 Thus, to desponding man in life’s dark way, 
 The angel, mercy, points the opening day ; 
 And through the tear that trembles in his eye, 
 Reveals the glories of her kindred sky. (49) 
 
 END OF CANTO FIFTH. 
 

APPENDIX. 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 (1) But lot their art survives to bless the world. 
 
 Hippocrates, a lineal descendant of Esculapius, the first accurate 
 observer, and the first eminent physician of which we have any defi- 
 nite account, flourished in Greece, about four hundred and sixty 
 years before the Christian era. He describes in various parts of his 
 works, as well the functions and period of appearance of the several 
 teeth, as their principal diseases, and the plan of treating them, both 
 by manual operations and by dentrifices. 
 
 At the commencement of the Christian era, we find in the writings 
 of Celsus, a celebrated physician of Rome, very explicit instructions 
 on the subject of several important operations on the teeth ; and 
 during the recent excavation at Pompeii and Herculaneum, several 
 dental implements have been discovered, much resembling some of 
 those in use at the present day. 
 
 Celsus treats of scarifying the gums, of extracting, scraping, and 
 even of stopping teeth ; and fixing loosened teeth with gold wire ; — ■ 
 indeed, this last practice is alluded to in the twelve tables of the 
 Roman laws. 
 
 The Latin poet, Martial, makes habitual allusion to artificial teeth, 
 as worn by the ladies of Rome in his time. 
 
 The celebrated Arabian surgeon, Albucasis, in the tenth century, 
 enters very extensively into descriptions of dental operations, and 
 gives drawings of a great number of instruments, used in his time 
 for extracting, scraping, loosening, and even of filing the teeth, a 
 practice which had been introduced more recently than any of the 
 others. 
 
 It was not till the seventeenth century that we have authentic 
 records of the exercise of the profession of dentistry distinctly from 
 that of surgery. Gillies, and other practitioners in France, received 
 the title of surgeon dentists as early as 1622. 
 
 In the year 1700, persons destined for the dental profession were 
 compelled, in France, to submit themselves to a regular examination ; 
 and it is from this period that we must date, in modern times, the regu- 
 lar establishment of this art, as a distinct branch of surgical practice,, 
 
§ 0 ’ 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Among those who distinguished themselves as dentists during the 
 last century, were Berdmore, Fauchard, Gerauldy, Larini, Bunon, 
 Mouton, Leclure, Bourdet, Aitkin, De Chemant, Kay, Moore, and 
 Talma ; and it is to the undivided attention of such men as these, 
 that we must attribute the vast additions made during that period, to 
 our knowledge of the structure and diseases of the teeth. 
 
 Of the authors who have written on the subject during the present 
 century, it will be sufficient to mention here, Blake, Fox, Duval, Le 
 Forgue, De la Barre, Beaume, Maury, Bell, Koecker, Fitch, and Hare. 
 
 There are many others whose experience would enable them to 
 produce works highly useful to the world, and particularly to young 
 practitioners. 
 
 Mr. Cartwright, of London, with whom I have the pleasure of a 
 personal acquaintance, is known to be the most celebrated dentist 
 now in Europe, but has not as yet made public his views, in relation to 
 his practice. It is most earnestly to be hoped that he will shortly 
 publish his opinions. 
 
 Mr. John Waite, who,, for many years, not only had the most 
 extensive practice, but was the best practitioner in London, died 
 without leaving any thing behind him in the way of writing. 
 
 We have cause also to regret that the late Dr. Hudson, of Phila- 
 delphia, did not, during his life time, embody his professional princi- 
 ples for the benefit of his contemporaries, and those who shall succeed 
 him in dental operations. I may say, without fear of contradiction, 
 that he has left behind him no one in this country so able to instruct, 
 and so well qualified, from observation and experience, to be useful 
 to the student. I am well pleased to learn that he left a large collec- 
 tion of notes and memoranda on his practice, and critical remarks on 
 the writings and practice of other dentists, all of which have fallen 
 into the hands of Doctor Trenor, of this city, to whom the profession 
 is already indebted for several very valuable papers on sub- 
 jects connected with his profession. With so valuable help as the 
 papers of Doctor Hudson, so able and zealous a compiler as Doctor 
 Trenor may well encourage the profession to expect a work of great 
 value to all who wish to become thoroughly acquainted with the 
 theory and practice of dental surgery. I cannot forbear making an 
 extract from an article published in one of the Philadelphia papers, 
 from the pen of my highly esteemed friend, Doctor Fitch, author of 
 the most comprehensive work on the teeth ever published in this 
 country. The extract which follows, is a just tribute of respect to 
 the memory of departed worth, and alike creditable to the feelings 
 and liberality of the author ; and I believe every dentist who had the 
 slightest acquaintance with Dr. Hudson’s practice, will cheerfully 
 admit the propriety of Doctor Fitch’s eulogium. 
 
 “ Some abler pen — some nearer friend, may tell his merits as a 
 parent, a husband, and a citizen. The writer of this will, presume 
 only to speak of him as a professional man. Those only who have 
 
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 carefully attended to the subject, can have any adequate idea of the 
 benefit the labors of Doctor Hudson have conferred, not only upon 
 the people of this city, but of every part of the United States. 
 
 “ When he commenced his practice here, he found the profession, 
 generally, at a very low ebb, usually exercised by mechanics. 
 Those great principles which elevate dental surgery from an art to a 
 science, were almost entirely overlooked or unknown. To remove 
 this mass of rubbish — to obliterate bitter and widely extended pre- 
 judices, was the task of Doctor Hudson. How well he performed 
 this duty can only be estimated by a reference to the state of the 
 profession at the time he commenced his practice, and when he was 
 taken from it by the hand of death. 
 
 “ Previously to his time, nearly all the talent among the dentists of 
 this country was directed to the making and insertion of artificial 
 teeth. Doctor Hudson taught the possibility and the immense advan- 
 tage of preserving the living teeth , instead of suffering their loss, and 
 resorting to artificial ones. He taught that, by strictly attending to the 
 dentition of children, all the irregularities and deformity of the teeth 
 might be prevented ; and that by continuing our attentions, and per- 
 forming timely operations upon any of those which might become 
 defective, these useful organs may be preserved in perfection during 
 our whole lives. 
 
 “Founded upon these principles, and recommended by his admir- 
 able operations, the practice of Doctor Hudson soon became the 
 praise and admiration of all who witnessed or experienced its bene- 
 ficial effects. His name was soon placed as first amongst all those who 
 practised dentistry in this country. This reputation he always 
 retained. 
 
 “ In another way his superior system of practice has conferred an 
 amount of benefit which can never be fully appreciated. It is, that 
 his excellent and highly finished operations have long been models of 
 imitation to other dentists. For a great many years, to equal his 
 operations has been the highest ambition of other practitioners; 
 none expected to excel them. 
 
 “ The gentlemanly deportment of Doctor Hudson to his patients 
 and patrons, his urbanity, his mildness, pointed him out as a model to 
 all surgeon dentists. 
 
 “ Finally : he ever sustained the dignity and respectability of the 
 profession, inspired confidence in its capabilities, and demonstrated its 
 claims to a high standing among those professions which contribute to 
 the well being and happiness of the human family.” 
 
 I have lately been informed that Doctor Flagg, of Boston, a gen- 
 tleman well known for his professional ability, is now preparing a 
 work of considerable extent, designed for the student and profession 
 at large. Mr. Arnold, also, of this city, a well educated dentist, is 
 translating a popular French work. 
 
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 (2) The teeth , deciduous , totter and decay. 
 
 The teeth are composed of two very distinct substances. The 
 internal is called the osseous part, or rather ivory, and forms the 
 greatest part of a tooth ; the external, which envelopes the former 
 like a thin incrustation, on all that part which is out of the sockets 
 from the commencement of the roots, is the enamel. 
 
 “ At the extremity of each root there is a very small hole, by 
 which the blood vessels and a nervous filament penetrate, destined to 
 give it life and nourishment. The nerve and the blood vessels conti- 
 nue their course in a narrow canal, with which the root is provided, 
 and form, in the interior of the tooth, a pulpy mass, composed of 
 a gelatinous substance, contained in a very thin mucous membrane, 
 formed by the development of the nerve and its vessels. It is by 
 means of this membrane, that the tooth forms and nourishes itself, 
 and acquires its increase.” (Gerbeaux, on the Teeth , Edinburgh 
 Edition , 1817, pp. 34, 35, 36.) 
 
 (3) Would shield defenceless infancy from harm. 
 
 “ The teeth furnish very considerable characteristics of scrofulous 
 habits. Either they are badly formed as to their common outline ; 
 their surfaces are corrugated and discolored ; or, if they be vrell 
 shapen individually, their enamel is very thin, and preternaturally 
 white ; and the spaces between the teeth are unusually wide. It is 
 a wise precaution to observe the teeth of nurses ; for 1 should always 
 question the fitness of a wet nurse, with a bad set of teeth, however 
 other circumstances may be in her favor.” ( View of the Alimentary 
 Organs , by Thomas Hare , London , 1821, p. 228.) 
 
 (4) And patient merit never want a friend. 
 
 “ It is to be hoped, that in time, patients will be able to discover 
 that educated men are successful in a far greater number of instances 
 than even the most fortunate of advertising empirics. But it is an 
 old complaint, and, unhappily, though old, not an obsolete one, that 
 ignorant pretension, especially when wrapped in mystery, is more 
 attractive to the million, than modest ability. It is consoling how- 
 ever, to the respectable practitioner to know, that while empirical 
 trickery may confer an evanescent fame, sound scientific acquirement 
 is the only basis on which can be founded a reputation solid, pro- 
 gressive, and enduring.” (Snell on the Teeth , 1882, p. 164. 
 
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 (5) And seeks from science her appointed part. 
 
 “ Infants have been born with one or more teeth ; this was the 
 ease with the great monarch, Louis XIV., in whom the presence of 
 a tooth at his birth, seemed the presage of his future greatness ; — 
 Polydore Yirgil also mentions a child that was born with six teeth ; 
 but towards the end of the first year is the most usual time for the 
 teeth to appear, and about the thirtieth month they are all cut, to the 
 number of twenty : they are called milk teeth, either because they 
 cut while milk is the only nourishment, or because they equal that 
 fluid in whiteness. They are also called primitive or casting teeth : 
 they are ten in number in each jaw ; four of which are incisors, two 
 canine, and four grinders. The incisors of the [lower jaw appear 
 first, then those of the upper jaw, afterward the canine, or, more 
 frequently, the grinders. 
 
 “ Every thing here appears to be for the advantage of the infant ; 
 an interval of a month or six weeks, between the cutting of each 
 tooth, seems designed to calm the irritation which generally accom- 
 panies this evolution ; for it is rare to cut these teeth, and particu- 
 larly the canine, without a swelling in the gums, heat of the mouth, 
 salivation, and redness of the cheeks. This is the way that dentition 
 usually proceeds ; sometimes it is so calm and easy, that the ten- 
 derest mother has no reason to fear, while at other times it is so 
 laborious, and attended with so many accidents, as to put the life of 
 the child in jeopardy ; in this latter case, whatever be the cause, the 
 effects are sufficiently obvious ; they have been observed from the 
 earliest times, and almost in every country, and accord with the 
 observation of Hippocrates : ‘ Those/ says he, * whose teeth are on 
 the point of cutting, are affected with itching of the gums, fevers, 
 convulsions, diarrhoeas ; especially in cutting the canine teeth, and in 
 those children which are fat, and of a constipated habit of body/ — 
 {Aphor. sec. III. 25.) To add to this picture, would be to augment 
 that dread of dentition which sensible mothers feel but too acutely at 
 present ; without being able to foresee or to combat those causes, 
 which often render it violent, and sometimes mortal. But to dissem- 
 ble, and to say that dentition is never difficult and perilous, would be to 
 consign too many mothers to a perfidious security, and one day they 
 would have but too much reason to complain of this silence.” ( Den - 
 tiste de la jeunesse , by Duval , Atkinson’s translation , pp. 29, 30, 31.) 
 
 (6) And flooding tears , in sad succession rise. 
 
 The first set of teeth begin to protrude generally about the sixth 
 or eighth month ; but in some cases the teeth have been known to 
 make their appearance as early as the fourth .or fifth month,; and 
 
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 sometimes, on the contrary, not until the fourteenth or fifteenth. The 
 period of teething does not depend on the health and strength of the 
 child, as this process sometimes seems slowest with the strongest 
 children. 
 
 The two incisors of the under jaw are the first which make their 
 appearance ; and are followed, in about three weeks or a month, by 
 similar teeth in the upper jaw. The lateral incisors of the under 
 jaw are the next which follow. Nature then interrupts this uniform- 
 ity of progress, and instead of the canine teeth, which are the next 
 in situation, the anterior molares of the under jaw make their ap- 
 pearance, and are succeeded in a short time by those of the upper. 
 The canine teeth and larger molares then follow to complete the set, 
 which is generally effected in about two years and a half. Devia- 
 tions from this order are occasionally met with, and, in some in- 
 stances, children have been known to be born with the two front 
 incisors of the lower jaw ; but as such premature growth cannot be 
 perfect, and as such teeth occasion much pain and inconvenience to 
 the child, it is always advisable to extract them. The first dentition 
 is a critical period in the life of a child ; and the mortality from this 
 cause is clearly ascertained to comprise more than half of those that 
 die under the age of two years. The efforts which the teeth make 
 to unfold themselves, naturally produce a powerful tension and pres- 
 sure on the gums ; and this gives rise to irritation and pain. The 
 gums become swelled and inflamed ; the saliva is constantly dis- 
 charged from the mouth, and the whole frame seems to labor under 
 the influence of fever. 
 
 It is proper, therefore, that every parent should be aware of the 
 consequences that may ensue, in order to resort to those means which 
 experience has found to be most successful in affording relief. This can 
 be obtained only by lessening the pressure of the tooth on the gum. 
 To accomplish this, the child is generally allowed some hard sub- 
 stance to rub thereon ; but this, although it may give temporary 
 relief, tends in the end to increase the irritation. Gentle friction 
 with the finger will be found to afford more relief, and may be ren- 
 dered still more effectual by the use of a little fine salt, or any other 
 substance which will cause a discharge, and therefore reduce the 
 inflammatory action of the vessels. Scarification, however, seems 
 to be the safest experiment that can be employed. This is performed 
 by the point of a lancet, pressed down upon the tooth, until the gum 
 and the investing membrane be fully divided. The pressure being 
 by this means taken off, the child will experience instantaneous relief. 
 Parents should be cautious how they give way to any vulgar preju- 
 dice against an operation by which many have been freed from the 
 most dangerous symptoms. 
 
 The use of the coral has been recommended by persons totally 
 ignorant of the disorders of dentition, in opposition to the opinions of 
 those who have made the teeth their exclusive study. I am decidedly 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
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 in favor of the theory of Doctor Blake, who says “ The coral is a 
 most dangerous weapon, put into the hands of children to destroy 
 themselves ; for as the teeth arise and become slightly elevated above 
 the edge of the socket, those hard bodies press and bruise the gum 
 between them and the sharp points or edge of the tooth underneath ; 
 inflammation and its consequences undoubtedly follow ; and in this 
 way, I am firmly persuaded, the lives of thousands of children have 
 been lost.” 
 
 Dentition is often accompanied by a fever of an inflammatory na- 
 ture ; the cheeks become flushed ; the eyes heavy and the skin hot 
 and parched ; the rest is broken and the appetite lost ; and if timely 
 assistance be not obtained, convulsions sometimes suddenly super- 
 vene, and not unfrequently terminate fatally. 
 
 The mildest effort which marks the interposition of nature, is the 
 appearance of numerous eruptions of the skin ; the period of denti- 
 tion marks their true nature, they are never removed nor cured until 
 the cause ceases to exist. 
 
 (7) And neither wound too little nor too much . 
 
 “ As far as my experience has taught me,” says Dr. John Hunter, 
 “ to cut the gum down to the tooth, appears to be the only method of 
 cure. It acts either by taking oft' the tension upon the gum, arising 
 from the growth of the tooth, or by preventing the ulceration which 
 must otherwise take place. It often happens that the gum will 
 re-unite over the tooth ; in which case the same symptoms will be 
 produced, and they must be removed by the same method. I have 
 performed the operation above ten times upon the same teeth, when 
 the disease had recurred so often, and every time with the absolute 
 removal of the symptoms. The gunis may bleed a little, which 
 may be of service in taking off the inflammation. I never saw a case 
 where the bleeding either proved inconvenient or dangerous.”- — 
 (. Hunter on the Human Teeth , pp. 240, 243.) 
 
 (8) Let unobstructed nature do the rest . 
 
 “ If we consult the tables of mortality in the towns and villages? 
 the number of the victims of dentition, will certainly appear appal- 
 ling ; and they are always found to be more numerous in the former 
 than in the latter. Happy villages ! Your industrious inhabitants, 
 with usages as ancient as their manners, raise their little ones in a 
 manner more conformable to nature ; they do not offer, in their cares, 
 the spectacle of that refinement, which the mothers of the city, with 
 more appearance of sensibility, have drawn from the theories of educa- 
 tion, which do not acknowledge experience for their base.” ( Atkin - 
 son's Duval , p. 36.) 
 
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 (9) Descends lamented to an early tomb. 
 
 Since in childhood the first sufferings begin, in childhood also the 
 foundation of a good or bad constitution is laid. It is at this critical 
 time that the greatest attention should be paid to the state of the 
 gums, to mark the protrusion of the teeth,, as well as the after 
 changes ; for it is only by knowing the steps and order of their pro- 
 gress, that proper aid can be given to the efforts of nature, during 
 the years of childhood.” L. 8. Parmb/s Lectures , pp. 34, 35.) 
 
 ( 10 ) In one , deformity ;—the other , pain. 
 
 This deformity generally arises from inattention during the time of 
 shedding teeth. The remedy consists in removing the causes, of 
 which there are man)/. The first is when the growth of the jaw is 
 insufficient for the new set, and thus forcing them to crowd and over- 
 lap each other, by which the central incisors of the upper jaw are 
 pressed forward, and thus forming what has been termed, from its 
 shape, “a rabbit mouth.” In such cases, the extraction of one or 
 more of the bicuspides from each side of the mouth is absolutely ne- 
 cessary, in order to bring the incisors into a regular arrangement, 
 which, after this operation, is easily effected, by the occasional pres- 
 sure of the thumb and finger, or by a judicious application of silken 
 ligatures. 
 
 It is sometimes, however, necessary to apply gold plates, springs, 
 and other mechanical contrivances, to bring them into a regular ar- 
 rangement. 
 
 A second irregularity arises from supernumerary teeth. This 
 takes place, most frequently, in the front teeth of the upper jaw, and 
 thus gives it a most unseemly appearance. In this case it is like- 
 wise necessary to have recourse to extraction as soon as possible. 
 
 A third irregularity, and one of frequent occurrence, arises from 
 one tooth projecting beyond another. This is easily remedied by 
 removing the projecting part with a proper instrument. 
 
 A fourth irregularity consists in the teeth having formed themselves 
 into ragged edges : and a fifth, in their having received fractures from 
 blows or falls. The last two irregularities are principally confined 
 to the front teeth, from their frequent action against each other, more 
 especially when the back ones have been lost ; and from being, by 
 their situation, more exposed to accident. These irregularities are 
 likewise remedied by removing portions from their cutting edges. 
 This operation is not only one of the most useful, but it is often abso- 
 lutely necessary ; for diseases of the tongue and cheek are some- 
 times occasioned by projecting, or badly formed teeth : and it not 
 unfrequently happens, that very useful teeth are extracted, to the 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 57 
 
 future inconvenience of the patient, when the judicious removal of 
 portions only would have answered every purpose ; and that a par- 
 tial loss of enamel from the cutting edges never produces decay, 
 while the natural cavity in the tooth remains untouched, is evident 
 from the well known practice of savage nations, who cut their teeth 
 into various shapes without incurring any disease. When fractures 
 are too extensive to be remedied by the above treatment, various 
 circumstances, particularly the age of the person, must influence the 
 mode of proceeding. If the fracture be of one tooth, and the per- 
 son has not arrived at the age of maturity, the extraction of the 
 fractured tooth, by giving the adjoining ones the opportunity of ap- 
 proaching each other, will render the defect but inconsiderable. 
 When, however, such accidents occur at an advanced period of life, 
 this kind of treatment can hardly be expected to be entirely success- 
 ful ; but as there is no other means of remedying the defect, unless 
 it be the insertion of an artificial tooth, the earlier assistance is pro- 
 cured, the greater will be the chance of success. A tooth that has 
 been knocked out without injury to its socket, will fasten again, if 
 immediately returned and secured in its place.. 
 
 Mr. Duval has the following judicious remark on this subject : — 
 “ It is from the age of six years to that of fourteen, being the usual 
 period of the second dentition, that the teeth require the greatest 
 care. When there is any disposition to irregularity, they ought to 
 be inspected once or twice a year by the surgeon dentist, who can 
 in almost all cases ensure a regular arrangement.” (page 27.) 
 
 (11) Avoid the danger , or repair the ill. 
 
 The protrusion of the second set of teeth is, in general, attended 
 with no pain or uneasiness. This set, when complete, consists of 
 thirty-two teeth, being twelve more than the first set. But though 
 the regular number of the second set of teeth is thirty-two, a defi- 
 ciency of this number sometimes occurs, and this deficiency is gene- 
 rally confined to the dentes sapientise, or wisdom teeth. Sometimes 
 the lateral incisors, and not unfrequently one or both of the upper 
 canine teeth, are found wanting ; the protrusion of the dentes sa- 
 pientiae, at times, does not take place till the fortieth year, and, in 
 some instances, not even then. 
 
 There are cases recorded of persons never having any teeth ; one 
 case of this kind has come under my own observation, and in that 
 instance the gums were sufficiently callous to answer every purpose 
 of mastication. I have frequently been informed that there is a 
 family living in South Carolina, several members of which have no 
 teeth, where the processes and gums are so perfectly well formed 
 and elongated, as to make the defect hardly perceptible. 
 
 The removal of the temporary teeth is a curious operation of na- 
 ture. The fangs being absorbed, they loosen by degrees, and are 
 8 
 
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 pushed from their situations by the pressure of the second set. But 
 there are instances in which this absorption does not take place, and, 
 consequently, the second set not being permitted to come forward in 
 their proper places, become irregular and deformed. The only 
 means of preventing this irregularity and deformity, is timely ex- 
 traction. 
 
 (12) Should meet resistance from opposing force > 
 
 There are instances, and those not a few, when relief can be 
 afforded by no other means than by extraction ; for this operation I 
 prefer the improved forceps, in all cases where they can be safely 
 applied, as being the best and safest instruments that can be used ; 
 but if the tooth is so much decayed as to render it likely to break 
 where the points of the forceps embrace the tooth, I uniformly use a 
 small key instrument, with the improvement I made on it many years 
 ago, which is now in very general use, in England and in this 
 country. 
 
 In order to do myself justice, I shall here make a short extract 
 from Mr. Snell’s work, lately published in London, the author of 
 which, in speaking of the instrument, forgot to make mention by 
 whom the improvement was made. “ The moveable bolster,” says he, 
 “ when in apposition to the gum, retains its relative situation, and the 
 fulcrum of the instrument moves upon it ; this I consider one of the 
 most important improvements of the key instrument ; its superiority 
 over the old one is so evident, as to need no farther explanation.” — 
 (page 100.) 
 
 On the subject of this improvement, Dr. Thomas Hare, of London, 
 as early as 1821, in his celebrated treatise on the “ Stomach and 
 Alimentary Organs of the human body,” thus speaks : “ The instru- 
 ments hitherto in use for the extraction of teeth, have, to my appre- 
 hension, been deficient of that neatness and convenience for adapta- 
 tion, which every operation on the human frame so justly demands. 
 Besides his finished qualifications as a dentist, therefore, it gives me 
 great pleasure to notice the merits of Mr. Eleazar Parmly, in contriv- 
 ing an instrument, admirable for its simplicity, which completely sets 
 aside these obvious disadvantages.” (Pages 205, 296. London 
 Edition , 1821.) 
 
 I make the following extract from Mr. Koecker’s work, to show 
 that many persons have an unwarrantable antipathy to extraction; 
 and that parents are frequently more in fault than their children, 
 when resistance is made to the necessary performance of operations 
 on the teeth. A want of decision on the part of parents, often sub- 
 jects the child to serious injury, and the operator to many inconve- 
 niences, not the least of which is loss of time, which might be wholly 
 avoided, if parents would send their children to the dentist with 
 directions for his government, or submit them entirely to his 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
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 management, when placed in his hands for the benefit of his advice 
 or operations. 
 
 It is the case of a child about ten years of age. “ I discovered,” 
 says this writer, “ several of her teeth to be carious, and proposed to 
 remove the caries with a file, and to extract the first four large 
 grinders, in order to prevent a recurrence of the disease, which had 
 arisen from some irregularity of the teeth, owing to their crowded 
 state. 
 
 “ The poor child was greatly alarmed at this advice. Her eyes 
 filled with tears, although her sisters, who were more familiar with 
 the operation, where whispering her to be of good cheer. The affec- 
 tionate mother was much grieved at the discovery, and the struggle 
 between her good sense on the one hand, and her parental anxiety on 
 the other, was so affecting, that 1 proposed another plan, by which I 
 should be able to save all the teeth of her daughter. But to this 
 proposal she would not consent, declaring that she was convinced 
 my first advice was the best, and adding that she and her daughter 
 would submit to the operation first proposed ; desiring only, a little 
 time for preparation. 
 
 “ About a week afterwards the little girl called upon me in excel- 
 lent spirits ; and after expressing her sorrow for not having submit- 
 mitted to the operation immediately, stated that her reluctance had 
 principally resulted from the alarm of her mother, who had conti- 
 nued, ever since I last saw her, to express her wish that the operation 
 should be performed, but had not courage enough to agree to its per- 
 formance. She, the daughter, therefore, had at last resolved to come 
 to me, without the knowledge of her mother ; and having acquainted 
 me with the circumstances, she sat down with sparkling eyes and a 
 smiling countenance, and said, 4 Now, if you please, sir, I am ready !’ 
 
 “ I shall not attempt to describe my feelings on this occasion ; but 
 merely state, that, in less than five minutes, the four permanent first 
 large grinders, the largest teeth in her mouth, were wrapped up in a 
 piece of paper, and she went away with them in her hand, rather 
 dancing than walking, to surprise and relieve her anxious mother 
 from fear and apprehension. 
 
 “ I leave to parents, and particularly to mothers, to judge of the 
 mother’s feelings for so amiable a daughter.” 
 
 “ It is remarkable,” says Mr. Fox, “ but not less true, that there is 
 scarcely any pain to which the human body is subject, that is so 
 much under the influence of fear and hope, as the tooth-ache. This 
 is experienced by almost every patient, and as constantly observed 
 by every surgeon, by the pain generally leaving that individual who 
 is under the immediate expectation of having the tooth extracted. 
 
 “ Empirics are not wanting, who take advantage of this circum- 
 stance, and pretend to cure tooth-ache by certain charms and nos- 
 trums : indeed, at the moment, they appear to be successful, from 
 the passions of fear or hope causing a temporary suspension of pain. 
 
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 “ The burning of the Antihelix of the ear, in order to relieve this 
 complaint, must be ranked amongst the above methods of cure ; it is 
 one not worthy of notice, had it not been formerly a very popular 
 remedy, and lately recommended in a periodical publication. 
 
 “ The slightest knowledge of the distribution of the nerves to the 
 teeth must convince every one, that a division of any part of the ear 
 cannot separate the connexion that subsists between the teeth and the 
 principal branches that go to the brain ; and, therefore, no more be- 
 nefit can be derived from this formidable operation, than may be at- 
 tributed to the influence of fear.” ( Fox on Human Teeth , Part II., 
 p. 38.) 
 
 (13) For healthy action on the general frame. 
 
 If we may judge from the opinions of the most able physicians 
 and surgeons, it is evident that the digestion of our food depends 
 greatly on the quantity of saliva which is elicited from the glands and 
 mingled with it, and to its being properly masticated by the teeth, 
 before it descends into the stomach. From this view we are led to 
 consider the teeth as essential instruments in preparing our food. The 
 front teeth are intended to take hold of and divide the food, and 
 those placed back in the jaws to grind or comminute it, in which 
 state only it is fit to pass into the stomach. 
 
 Digestion, then, is performed first by the action of the teeth, dur- 
 ing which process the saliva is elicited from the glands in order to 
 be mixed with it, and, as it is comminuted, descends into the sto- 
 mach along with this powerful solvent, for its assimilation. It is there 
 mixed with the gastric juice, and receives the other changes which 
 convert it into nutritive matter. 
 
 If the teeth, then, are incapable of performing their office, the 
 process of digestion must be imperfectly carried on, and the health 
 of the individual suffer in proportion. The supply of nourishment 
 to the system is the first and great function of life ; and the health 
 of the teeth, so essential to it, cannot claim too much attention from 
 every individual. 
 
 (14) Disgusting objects of deformity ! 
 
 “ The influence which the teeth exercise over beauty, justifies the 
 pre-eminence which I attribute to them over all the other attractions 
 of the countenance. This ornament is equally attractive in both 
 sexes : it distinguishes the elegant from the slovenly gentleman, and 
 diffuses amiability over the countenance, by softening the features. 
 But it is more especially to woman that fine teeth are necessary, 
 since it is her destiny first to gratify the eyes before she touches the 
 soul, and captivates and enslaves the heart.” (Diet. Sci. Med. Paris) 
 
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 (15) And spreads delight through all its wide domain . 
 
 “ Some idea of the rapid motion of the blood may be formed from 
 the following calculation: the heart propels, at each pulsation, about 
 one ounce of blood, and when it makes eighty pulsations in a minute, 
 of course three hundred pounds of blood must pass through it in an 
 hour, which is about twelve times the whole mass of blood in the 
 body ; and this rapid action is incessantly going on, night and day, 
 through life.” (fuller on the Teeth , p. 47.) 
 
 (16) And hence , defective , only from abuse . 
 
 “ The following is the composition of the teeth, as given by Ber- 
 zelius, whose analysis appears to have been more elaborate than that 
 of any other chemist. It will be found to record the occurrence of 
 several substances as existing in the bone and enamel of the teeth, 
 the presence of which has not been detected by others. According 
 to this celebrated chemist, the enamel of the adult teeth contains, in 
 one hundred parts: — 
 
 “Phosphate of lime 85.3 
 
 Fluate of lime 3.2 
 
 Carbonate of lime 8 
 
 Phosphate of magnesia .... 1,5 
 
 Soda and muriate of soda ... 1 
 
 Animal matter and water ... 1 
 
 100 
 
 “ The bony substance is stated, by the same authority, to con* 
 
 tain : — 
 
 “ Phosphate of lime 62 
 
 Fluate of lime 2 
 
 Carbonate of lime 5.5 
 
 Phosphate of magnesia .... 1 
 
 Soda and muriate of soda ... 1.5 
 
 Gelatine and water 28 
 
 100 ” 
 
 (Bell on the Teeth , pp. 6, 7.) 
 
 (17) Assigned these organs in the frame of man . 
 
 “ The teeth, which are the only hardened parts of the animal 
 frame exposed to the influence of air, to the influence of invasive 
 
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 fluids, or called upon to exercise any sort of mechanical power 
 without the intervention of membranous or other protection, and 
 without the aid of lubricating fluid proper to themselves, or being 
 placed beyond the mutilating influence of chemical agents, are of a 
 more dense, refined, and minute crystalline texture externally, than 
 any other of its objects ; but this natural advantage of texture has 
 become progressively lessened with the advancement of civilization.” 
 ( Hare on the Stomach, p. 51.) 
 
 To the foregoing remarks of my distinguished friend, I will add, 
 that the teeth are the hardest and most compact parts of the human 
 frame, as is evident from their being found after interment in a per- 
 fect condition, after all the other bones have mouldered away. — 
 Hence we may reasonably conclude, that, from their formation, they 
 are little liable to decay ; and that the inattention of the individual, 
 and the action of extraneous matter upon them, are the chief causes 
 of those diseases with which they are oftentimes affected. 
 
 Though to a superficial observer the teeth may appear to be a part 
 of the body which is little deserving of regard, yet, those who consi- 
 der the many functions which the teeth have to perform, must allow 
 that their claims on our attention are as many and as strong as those 
 of any other part of the human frame. Those means should be 
 studied, therefore, which tend to preserve them in their original per- 
 fection ; and every argument used, to impress upon the attention of 
 society at large the importance of resorting to those means, when- 
 ever circumstances may require their aid. 
 
 (18) A greedy campy re, feasting on his heart ! 
 
 " The Brazilians, when first discovered by the Europeans, lived the 
 most natural, original lives of mankind, so frequently described in 
 ancient countries, before laws, or property, or arts made entrance 
 among them ; they lived without labor, farther than for their neces- 
 sary food, by gathering fruits, herbs, and plants ; they knew no drink 
 but water ; were not tempted to eat or drink beyond common thirst 
 or appetite ; were not troubled with either public or domestic cares, 
 nor knew any pleasure but the most simple and natural.” (Sir John 
 Sinclair’s Code of Health , Vol. IV. p. 333.) 
 
 “ The chief food of the Japanese is rice, pulse, fruits, roots, and 
 herbs ; but mostly rice, which they have in great plenty and perfec- 
 tion, and dress in so many different ways, and give to it such variety 
 of tastes, flavor, and color, that a stranger would hardly know what 
 he was eating.” (Mod. Universal History , Vol. IX. p. 62.) 
 
 “ The philosophers of India eat nothing but rice, fruits, and herbs.” 
 (Bartolomeo’s Voyages, hy Johnson, p. 287.) 
 
 “ The four most ancient orders of priests, the Rahans, the Bramins, 
 the Magi, and the Druids, confined themselves to vegetable food, as 
 
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 did also the Athenian prince. Triptolemus, who established the Eleu- 
 sinian mysteries, and prohibited by law all injury to animals. 
 {Monthly Magazine , February , 1812, p. 21.) 
 
 Jf it should be deemed necessary to explain my motives for any 
 seeming digression from my subject, in introducing matter that will 
 no doubt be considered by some as wholly unconnected with the 
 duties of a practical dentist, I would say, that it is my settled opi- 
 nion, that whatever affects the general condition of the system, must* 
 in a greater or less degree, affect the health of the teeth. 
 
 I have myself suffered much, in former years, from debility and 
 other forms of indisposition, induced, 1 am persuaded, by gross and 
 improper diet. For the last year I have abstained from all exciting 
 drinks, have utterly relinquished the use of tea and coffee, have ab- 
 stained from animal food of every name and nature, and bv this 
 course of conduct have found my health to be so much benefited, 
 that 1 feel it a duty as well as a pleasure, to endeavor to impress 
 upon the reader the necessity of living more frugally, if he wish to 
 enjoy that health of body and that tranquillity of mind which none 
 can enjoy, for any great length of time, but such as live in accordance 
 with the" rules prescribed by all profound philosophers, both of an- 
 cient and modern times 
 
 On this subject, and for the foregoing reasons, I have selected such 
 passages from various distinguished authors as I have found true by 
 experience, in the hope that this cloud of witnesses in behalf of tem- 
 perance, health, and happiness, may influence some of my readers to 
 sacrifice at least one debasing appetite on the altar of truth and 
 reason. 
 
 (19) Compared , intemperate luxury ! with thine. 
 
 “ The throat has destroyed more than the sword.” 
 
 Martial. 
 
 " The nations that subsist on vegetable diet are of all men the 
 handsomest, the most robust, the least exposed to diseases and vio- 
 lent passions ; and they attain the greatest longevity. The Bramins 
 of India, who frequently survive a century, eat nothing but vegeta- 
 bles. From the Pythagorean school, Epaminondas issued forth, so 
 renowned for his virtues ; Archytas, so celebrated for his skill in me- 
 chanics ; and Milo of Crotona, for his strength. As vegetable diet 
 has a necessary connexion with many virtues, and excludes none, it 
 must be of importance to accustom young people to it, seeing its in- 
 fluence so powerfully contributes to beauty of person and tranquillity 
 of soul. The children of the Persians, in the time of Cyrus, and 
 by his orders, were fed with bread, water, and cresses ; and Lycur- 
 gus introduced a considerable part of the physicial and moral regi- 
 men of these children into the education of those of Lacedaemon* 
 Such diet prolongs infancy, and, of course, the duration of human 
 life.” {Bernardin de St. Pierre’s Studies of Nature. Yob IV. p 357.) 
 
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 “ As, in every period of history, it has been known, that fruit and 
 vegetables alone are sufficient for the support of life, and that the bulk 
 of mankind live upon them at this hour ; the adherence to the use of 
 animal food is no more than a persistance in the gross customs of sa- 
 vage life — and evinces an insensibility to the progress of reason, and to 
 the operation of intellectual improvements.” (Dr. Lambe on Regimen., 
 p. 243.) 
 
 “ The circumstance of weighing down the stomach with a load 
 of food, particularly where relaxation of the general fibre is favored 
 by inactive habits, must tend by degrees to increase its capaciousness ; 
 and in proportion as this increases, the energies of the brain and of 
 all the organs of sense become diminished ; the sight, the hearing, 
 and the smell, are less exquisitely acute ; the palate is not satisfied 
 with simple viands ; and even the sense of touch is rendered less 
 nice. 
 
 “ It was well observed by the late Dr. Saunders, that we are made 
 gluttons from the cradle by the officiousness of our nurses ; a child’s 
 health is disordered by being over fed ; it cries and complains from 
 the effects, and with a view to silence it, more and more food is given, 
 so that the evil is increased instead of remedied, and the capacity of 
 the stomach gradually extended far beyond the salutary bounds of 
 nature.” ( Hare on the Stomach , p. 134.) 
 
 (20) And drains destruction from the circling glass . 
 
 “ A vulgar error prevails, which is, that strong liquors are essential 
 to bodily strength. This false opinion is partly grounded on the 
 idea of a nutritious property in those liquors, and partly, perhaps, in 
 a logical error in using the word strong, as being necessarily con- 
 nected with strengthening the animal body. The first notion is en- 
 tirely wrong ; since it is proved, by continual evidence that strong 
 liquors are inimical to animal life throughout the creation, and that 
 no living animal or plant can be supported by such fluids ; but that, 
 on the contrary, they all become sickly and perish under their in- 
 fluence. I presume that no person would give a iamb, a calf, a 
 chicken, or a duck, such liquors, with a hope of rendering them 
 sooner fat, and of sweeter flesh, even if such liquors were so 
 cheap as to render it an economical process. Yet many parents do 
 this to their infant children ! The fate of those individuals is truly 
 deplorable, who cannot exist without an exhausting stimulus.” ( Sir 
 Anthony Carlisle's Lectures on fermented liquors .) 
 
 Dr. Rush observes, that, “ since the introduction of spirituous li- 
 quors into such general use, physicians have remarked that a number 
 of new diseases have appeared among us, and have described many 
 new symptoms as common to old diseases. Spirits, in their first ope- 
 ration, are stimulating upon the system. They quicken the circula- 
 tion of the blood, and produce some heat in the body. Soon after 
 
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 they become what is called sedative ; that is, they diminish the action 
 of the vital powers, and thereby produce languor and weakness.” 
 
 (21) Crcwns high the heard ; for this the herd has hied . 
 
 “ Dr. Alphonsus Lercy, of Paris, has published an essay on cer- 
 tain diseases of men, which he traces to the animals on which they 
 had fed ; and he establishes the doctrine generally, that many dis- 
 eases with which mankind are afflicted, are communicated by eating 
 the flesh of animals.” (Monthly Magazine, June 1815, p. 446.) 
 
 “ The late Sir Edward Barry prevailed with a man to live on 
 partridges, without vegetables ; but after eight days’ trial he was 
 obliged to desist, in consequence of strong symptoms then appearing 
 of an incipient putrefaction.” ( Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Health , Vol. 
 I. p. 425.) 
 
 “ The use of swine’s flesh, in union with ardent spirits, is, in all 
 likelihood, the grand cause of the scurvy, which is so common in the 
 British nation, and which would probably assume the form and viru- 
 lence of a leprosy, were our climate as hot as that of Judea.” (Dr. 
 Adam Clarke.) 
 
 “ It is a remarkable fact, that at Heimaey, the only one of the 
 Westmann islands which is inhabited, scarcely a single instance has 
 been known, during the last twenty years, of a child surviving the 
 period of infancy. In consequence, the population, which does not 
 exceed two hundred souls, is entirely kept up by emigration from the 
 main land of Iceland. The food of this people consists principally 
 of sea-birds, fulmars, and puffins. The fulmars they procure in vast 
 abundance ; and they use the eggs and flesh of the birds, and salt 
 the latter for their winter food. There are a few cows and sheep on 
 the island, but the inhabitants are said to have no vegetable food.” — 
 {Dr. Lamhe’s Reports on Regimen , p. 197.) 
 
 “ In ancient times, the medicines of the Indians consisted chiefly, 
 according to Strabo, in regularity, temperance, and a choice of 
 food.” (Bartolomeo, by Johnson, p. 423.) 
 
 “ The man who forsakes not the law, and eats not flesh meat, like 
 a blood thirsty demon, shall attain good will in this world, and shall 
 not be afflicted with maladies.” ( Laws of Menu , from Sir William 
 Jones , Vol. III. p. 206.) 
 
 “ Happy the man, who, studying nature’s laws, 
 
 Through known effects can trace the secret cause : — 
 
 He feeds on fruits, which of their own accord, 
 
 The willing ground and laden trees afford : — 
 
 Simple his beverage, homely is his food, 
 
 The wholesome herbage, and the running flood.” 
 
 {Dry den' s Virgil , Georg. II. 1. 698. — III. 1. 790.) 
 
 “ The moral effect of aliment is clearly evinced in the different 
 tempers of the carnivorous and the frugivorous animals. The former, 
 
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 whose destructive passions, like those of ignorant man, lay waste all 
 within their reach, are constantly tormented with hunger, which re- 
 turns and rages in proportion to their devastation; this creates that 
 state of warfare or disquietude which seeks, as in murderers, the 
 night and the veil of the forest ; for should they appear on the plain, 
 their prey escapes, or, seen by each other, their warfare begins. — 
 The frugivorous animals wander tranquilly on the plains, and testify 
 their joyful existence by frisking and basking in the genial rays of 
 the sun, or browsing with pleasure on the green herb. The same 
 effect of aliment is discernible amongst the different species of men ; 
 the peaceful temper of the frugivorous Asiatic is strongly contrasted 
 with the ferocious disposition of the carnivorous European.” (Jean 
 Jacques Rousseau.) 
 
 “The man who sheds the blood of an ox or sheep, will be habi- 
 tuated more easily than another to witness the effusion of that of his 
 fellow men.; inhumanity takes possession of his soul ; and the pro- 
 fessions whose object is to sacrifice animals for the purpose of sup- 
 plying the supposed necessities of men, impart to those who exer- 
 cise them, a ferocity which their relative connexions with society but 
 imperfectly serve to mitigate.” (Encyclopedic Methodique. Tome 
 VII. hart. 1. liv. 65.) 
 
 “ India, in fact, of all the regions of the earth, is the only public 
 theatre of justice and tenderness to brutes, and all living creatures ; 
 for there, not confining murder to the killing of man, they religiously 
 abstain from taking the life of the meanest animal. ” (Ovington’s 
 Voyage to Surat , p. 296.) 
 
 “The Gentoos rear numerous herds of cattle ; but such is their 
 veneration for these animals, on account of their useful and patient 
 services to man, that to kill, or even maim one of them, is deemed a 
 capital offence.” (M. de Page’s Travels , Vol. II. p. 27.) 
 
 “ Among the W allachians, though there is no positive institution to 
 the contrary, yet the women never destroy the life of any creature. 
 Whether this custom were founded by some of their ancient legisla- 
 tors, or whether it originated from accidental circumstances, is un- 
 certain ; but however that be, nothing can be more suitable to the 
 gentleness and timidity which form the most beautiful and engaging 
 part of the female character.” (Dr. Alexander’s History of Women , 
 Vol. I. p. 366.) 
 
 “ The Indian Bramins neither kill nor eat any sort of animal ; 
 and it is certain they have not done it for more than two thousand 
 years.” (Dr. Clarke’s Fleury , p. 87.) 
 
 “As a proof of the havoc committed by more savage man on the crea- 
 tures of his prey, it is said, that in Paris there are four thousand sellers 
 of oysters, and that fifteen hund.-d large oxen, and above sixteen thou- 
 sand sheep, calves, or hogs, besides a prodigious quantity of poultry 
 and wild fowls, are eaten daily.” (Bayle’s Dictionary. — Art. Ovid.) 
 
 “ When children are barbarous towards innocent animals, they will 
 soon become the same towards men. Caligula, before imbruing his 
 
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 hands in human blood, had made a practice of destroying flies. It 
 may be said, that the moral behavior of man to man commences, in 
 some measure, with that of an infant towards insects. Never, there- 
 fore, let a child acquire a truth by means ol a vice; nor extend its 
 understanding at the expense of its heart. Let it not study the laws 
 of nature in the pangs of sentient beings ; but rather in the succession 
 of their enjoyments.” (St. Pierre's Harmonies of Nature , Yol. I. p. 
 411.) 
 
 The celebrated Mr. John Tweddell, in one of his letters, thus 
 beautifully expresses himself : — “ I no longer eat flesh meat, nor drink 
 fermented liquors. As for the latter, it is merely because 1 do not be- 
 lieve that they can ever be good for the constitution, and still more es 
 pecially with a vegetable diet. W ith regard to the flesh of animals, I 
 have many times thought on the subject. I am persuaded we have 
 no other right than the right of the strongest, to sacrifice to our 
 monstrous appetites the bodies of living things, of whose qualities 
 and relations we are ignorant. Different objections which struck 
 me, as to the probability of good from the universality of this prac- 
 tice, have hitherto held me in indecision. 
 
 “ I doubted whether, if this abstinence were universal, the animals 
 which we now devour might not devour, in their turn, the fruits and 
 vegetables reserved for our sustenance. I do not know whether this 
 would be so ; but I do not believe it : it seems to me that their num- 
 bers would not augment in the proportion wh.ch is apprehended. If, 
 on the one hand, we now consume them with our teeth, on the other, 
 we might then abandon our schemes and inventions for augmenting 
 the means of propagation. Let nature follow her own course with 
 regard to all that lives. I am told that they would destroy each 
 other : — In the first place, the two objections cannot exist together : 
 if they would destroy each other, their numbers would not be ex- 
 cessive. And what is this mutual destruction to me? Who has 
 constituted me dictator of the realms of nature ? Why am I umpire 
 between the mistress and her servants ? Because two chickens fight 
 till one dies, am I obliged to worry one ot them to prevent the en- 
 gagement? Exquisite and well imagined humanity! 
 
 “ On the other hand, let precautions be adopted against fanrne, 
 when experience shall have shown the necessity of them ; in the 
 mean while, we are not called upon to bury in our bowels the carcas- 
 ses of animals, which, a few hours before, lowed or bleated ; to flay 
 and to dismember a defenceless creature ; to pamper the unsuspect- 
 ing beast that grazes before us, with the single view of sucking its 
 blood and grinding its bones ; and to become the unnatural murderers 
 of beings, of whose powers and faculties, of whose modes of com- 
 munication and mutual intercourse, of whose degree of sensibility 
 and extent of pain and pleasure, we are necessarily and funda- 
 mentally ignorant.” (Life and Remains of J. Tweddeil t p. 215.) 
 
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 (22) Suspend forever all their songs of lorn f 
 
 “Abstinence,” says Shelley, “from animal food, subtilizes and clears 
 the intellectual faculties.” For all the sensualities of the table he 
 had an ineffable contempt, and, like Newton, used sometimes to ask 
 if he had dined. ( Vide Life of Shelley.) 
 
 M So many dishes, so many disorders.” 
 
 Seneca. 
 
 “ Well observe 
 
 The rule of not too much, by temperance taught, 
 
 In what thou eat’st and drink’st ; seeking from thence 
 Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight.” 
 
 Milton. 
 
 “ By salt, Cayenne pepper, and other high seasonings, they stimu- 
 late the appetite, turn round the wheels of life too. rapidly, and wear 
 out the body, or machine, before its time ; whereas, those who ab- 
 stain from such wine, spirituous liquors, and hot spicy aliments, ac- 
 quire an exquisite degree of delicacy in the sense of lasting; their 
 spirits are more equal, their feelings more pleasurable, and, generally, 
 they are much longer lived.” {Dr. Abernethy.) 
 
 “ Temperanee and exercise are the parents of health.” 
 
 Mason, 
 
 The common ingredients of health and long life are 
 
 “ Great temperance — open air, 
 Easy labor, and little care.” 
 
 Anon. 
 
 “ It appears that the structure and uses of the teeth are more per- 
 fectly equalized in the human subject, than in any other animal. It 
 is true that, in some tribes of animals, whose habits require the great- 
 est possible extension of the office of a particular class of the teeth, 
 a corresponding development of that class is found to take place, to 
 a much greater degree than in man. 
 
 “ Thus, in the carnivora , the cuspidati are greatly elongated and 
 strengthened, in order to enable them to seize their food and to tear 
 it in pieces ; in the rodentia, or gnawing animals, as in the beaver, 
 for instance, the incisors are remat kably long, and exhibit that extra- 
 ordinary development which their peculiar habits demand, and in the 
 graminivorous animals, the ruminaniia especially, the molares are 
 found to occupy the most conspicuous situation. But, in each of 
 these instances, the other kinds of teeth are found to be proportion- 
 ably of less importance, and in some cases, are actually wanting. In 
 man, on the contrary, every class appears to be equally developed, 
 to a moderate, though a sufficient degree, and to exhibit a perfection 
 
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 of structure which may be considered as being the true type, from 
 which all other forms are mere deviations. It becomes, therefore, a 
 question of some interest, and perhaps of no less difficulty, to what 
 food the structure which has just been demonstrated is particularly 
 adapted. The opinion which I venture to give has not been hastily 
 formed, nor without what appeared to me sufficient grounds ; I ad- 
 vance it, however, with diffidence, and do not profess to consider it 
 much more than hypothetical. 
 
 “ The endowment of reason, that greatest, best gift of the Creator, 
 appears, if we consider the perfection of human organization, to be 
 particularly, and, in its highest degree, even exclusively, adapted to 
 the conformation and requirements of man. This high and divine 
 endowment should never be lost sight of in our reasonings on the hu- 
 man structure, and the physiology and habits of our species, as it is 
 only with the allowances and modificafions which the possession of a 
 quality so infinitely higher than the instinct of other animals necessa- 
 rily supposes, that the actual habits of man can be viewed as com- 
 patible with his organization. Although these habits, now essentially 
 arising from, and combined with a state of civilization, wdiich, in a 
 greater or less degree, must be allowed to exist in every known 
 tribe of our species, cannot be considered, in any one instance, as 
 actual and exclusively natural; yet we may be led, by a careful 
 examination of the structure of the different organs, and by an ana” 
 logical comparison of them, as they exist in man, with the same or- 
 gans in those animals which most nearly resemble him in structure, 
 but which are still found in a perfectly natural state, to a plausible 
 supposition, at least, of what were originally his natural habits ; and 
 which would have still continued so, but for those changes which 
 have arisen from the possession of this very endowment. 
 
 “ With this view of the subject, it is not, I think, going too far to 
 say, that every fact connected with the human organization goes to 
 prove, that man was originally formed a frugivorous animal, and 
 therefore probably tropical, or nearly so, with regard to his geographi- 
 cal situation. This opinion is principally derived from the formation 
 of his teeth and digestive organs, as w T ell as from the character of 
 his skin, and the general structure of his limbs. 3t is not my inten- 
 tion now to go farther into the discussion of this subject than to ob- 
 serve, that if analogy be allowed to have any weight in the argument, 
 it is wholly on that side of the question which I have just taken. — 
 Those animals whose teeth and digestive apparatus most nearly re- 
 semble our own, namely, the apes and monkeys, are undoubtedly 
 frugivorous ; but as, from their organization, they are necessarily 
 tropical animals, and without the gift of reason, by which they might 
 have overcome the difference of temperature by artificial means, 
 they remain still restricted to their original food, and confined to the 
 very limited climate to which their structure peculiarly adap- 
 ted them. The reasoning powers of man, on the contrary, have 
 
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 enabled him to set climate at defiance, and have rendered him, in all 
 cases, more or less an artificial being. No longer restrained within 
 that range of temperature to which the delicacy of his frame, no 
 less than the nature of his original nutriment would have confined 
 him, he becomes the denizen of every climate, and the lord of ter- 
 restrial creation.” ( Bell on the Teeth , pp. 33 — 36.) 
 
 (23) Of bloody banquet for the monster — man ! 
 
 “ Temperance, cleanliness, and abstinence, have greater power 
 over the soul and body than most in our days imagine. Some of the 
 ancients have delivered it as a maxim, 4 That none could understand 
 God and his works, and enjoy perfect health and long life, but those 
 that abstain from flesh, wine, and vices, bounding their desires accor- 
 ding to the ends and necessities of nature.’ Most men will in 
 words confess, that there is no blessing this world affords comparable 
 to health, yet rarely do any of them value it as they ought to do, 
 till they feel the want of it. To him that has obtained this goodly 
 gift, the meanest food, even bread and water, are most pleasant, and 
 all sorts of labor and exercise delightful. But the contrary makes all 
 things nauseous and distasteful. What are full-spread tables, riches, 
 and honors, to him that is tormented with distempers ? Happy it 
 were, if men did but use the tenth part of the care and diligence to per- 
 serve their minds and bodies in health, as they do to procure riches, 
 which serve them chiefly to procure those dainties and superfluities 
 which generate disease, and are the causes of many other evils, there 
 being but few men that know how to use riches as they ought. As 
 little and as mean food and drink, .will maintain a lord in perfect health 
 as the poorest peasant. But, alas ! the momentary pleasures of the 
 appetite entice most people to exceed the bounds of necessity or con- 
 venience, and many are seduced by a false opinion of nature, child- 
 ishly imagining that the richer the food, and the more they consume, 
 the more they shall be strengthened thereby. But experience proves 
 the reverse ; for the persons who accustom themselves to the richest 
 compound food, and most cordial drinks, are uniformly the most infirm 
 and diseased. People much mistake in supposing, that, so long as 
 the appetite desires and the pleasure of eating continues strong, they 
 may eat on without damage to their health. The truth is, this is one 
 of the chief reasons why men are gluttons ; and there is little difficul- 
 ty intemperance, save only in this particular; it being somewhat 
 hard for a healthy man to give off eating in the midst of the pleasure 
 he receives by it, especially when meats by art are made on purpose, 
 not only to prolong the appetite, but also to delight it. Varieties of 
 food are always dangerous, if great care and temperance be not ob- 
 served. He that limits his desire by wisdom, and has the understan- 
 ding both of the quality and the quantity, may eat of sundry sorts of 
 
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 food at once ; but the ignorant and unwise very rarely do it without 
 prejudice to their health.” ( Tnjon’s Way to Health , Long Life , and 
 Happiness , London , 1691, pp. 41, 42, 43.) 
 
 The same very ingenious writer remarks, page 137, “ If you will 
 be so habituated and wedded to your unhealthy customs, that you, 
 ask not whether nature be weak and impotent, then you may mix 
 your food with all the varieties that the East and West Indies pro- 
 duce ; you may make your drink as strong and cordial as you wish ; 
 you may wrap yourselves at night in beds of down ; and when it. is 
 nine or ten o’clock in the morning, look that you have a good, rousing 
 fire in your chambers, and breakfast ready ; and two or three hours 
 afterwards, let a plentiful dinner of varieties be made ready, with 
 strong and inflaming liquors. This is the trade that many thousands 
 of this nation pursue, as if they studied to bring diseases upon them- 
 selves, and dig their graves with their own teeth ; for, in the midst of 
 all their affluence, wherein they esteem themselves happy, they are 
 yet most miserable.” 
 
 (24) The safe and luscious diet of mankind. 
 
 Of all the forms of vegetable matter proper to this climate, the 
 farinaceous grains are undoubtedly the most important ; but in mak- 
 ing them into bread, the following rules from Try on should be well 
 observed ; — and his advice will be found to have lost none of its 
 value by coming from a writer in the reign of William and Mary. 
 
 “ If you set any value on health, and have a mind to preserve na- 
 ture, you must not separate the finest from the coarsest flour, be- 
 cause that which is fine is naturally of an obstructive quality ; but, 
 on the contrary, the other, which is coarse, is of a cleansing and 
 opening nature ; therefore, that bread is best which is made of both 
 together. In the inward bean and skin of the wheat is contained an 
 oily quality, of a sweet nature, by reason whereof, bread made of 
 fine and coarse together will not only be sweeter, and keep longer 
 moist, but is also more wholesome ; easier of concoction. It must 
 be confessed, that the nutritive quality is contained in the fine flour, 
 yet, in the branny part is contained the opening and digestive quality 
 and there is as great a necessity for the one as for the other, for the 
 support of health. By what has been said, we may gather that the 
 eating of fine bread is inimical to health, and contrary both to nature 
 and reason ; and was at first invented to gratify luxurious persons, 
 who are ignorant both of themselves and of the true virtue and 
 efficacy of natural things.” (Tryon’s Way to Health , pp. 147, 148.) 
 
 The same author, pp. 286, 287, relates the following anecdote of 
 Henry VIII. “ There is a pleasant story of king Henry VIII., in 
 the first part of his reign, riding a hunting; and being hungry, he 
 strayed from his attendants, and came alone to a monastery about 
 
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 dinner time. The fat, lazy abbot, welcomed him very kindly, for 
 hearing that the king was in that country, he concluded this was one 
 of his guards. At dinner they had great varieties, and the king fed 
 like a farmer on a piece of roast beef. But the abbot, who daily 
 crammed himself with delicacies, could scarce relish a bit of any 
 thing before him ; and pleasantly said to the king : — ‘ Honest friend, 
 I would give five hundred pounds if 1 could pick so heartily as you 
 do on a piece of roast beef/ The king returned him some small 
 compliment, and after dinner took his leave. About a fortnight 
 after, the king sent a messenger for the old fulsome abbot, and or- 
 dered him to be carried to the tower, there to be close prisoner, and 
 allowed a given quantity of small beer and bread every day, but no 
 other food. The abbot could not imagine what he had done to occa- 
 sion such an imprisonment ; and being thus dieted, he soon came to 
 have a good stomach. After about a month, the king ordered the 
 keeper to carry him in a good piece of hot roast beef, on which the 
 abbot fell w T ith such violence as if he would have eaten it at a mouth- 
 ful. The king, who was stationed in a room where he could see 
 how he laid about, at last stepped in and demanded his five hundred 
 pounds. 4 For/ said he, ‘ you said you would give it ; and I have 
 performed the cure, and got you a better stomach than all the doc- 
 tors in England would have done — and so upon payment of the five 
 hundred pounds, discharged him.” 
 
 “ No flocks that range the valley free, 
 
 To slaughter I condemn, 
 
 Taught by the Power that pities me, 
 
 I learn to pity them. 
 
 “ But from the mountain’s grassy side, 
 
 A guiltless feast I bring ; 
 
 A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, 
 
 And water from the spring.” 
 
 Goldsmith's Hermit, 
 
 <‘To mix the food by vicious rules of art, 
 
 To kill the stomach, and to sink the heart, 
 
 To make mankind in social virtue sour, 
 
 Cram o’er each dish, and be what they devour ; 
 
 For this the kitchen muse first framed her book,. 
 
 Commanding sweat to stream form every cook : 
 
 Children no more their antic gambols tried. 
 
 And friGnds to physic wondered why they died.” 
 
 Barlow's Hasty Pudding , Canto II 
 
 « In China, a single acre of land sown with rice, produces suffi- 
 cient for the consumption of five persons for a year, allowing tvo 
 pounds and a half a day to each” ( Breton s China , Vol. IX. p. 29.) 
 
 “ The peculiar property of the corn plant, is that of being pro- 
 duced, in some shape or other, in every part of the world, from 
 the rice of the Ganges to the barley of Finland. It is, however 
 
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 remarkable, that it no where grows spontaneously, like other plants, 
 so that providence appears to have devolved altogether on our spe- 
 cies the charge of maintaining and extending its cultivation. Bread 
 is, of all vegetable nourishment, the most substantial and durable.” 
 (St. Pierre's Studies of Nature, Yol. I. p. 22.) 
 
 “ The living herbs spring up prefusely wild, 
 
 O’er all the deep green earth, beyond the power 
 Of botanist to number up their tribes : 
 
 But who their virtues can declare 1 who pierce 
 With vision pure, into the secret stores 
 Of health, and life, and joy ! The food of man, 
 
 While yet he lived in innocence, and told 
 A length of golden years unfleshed in blood, 
 
 A stranger to the savage arts of life, 
 
 Death, rapine, carnage, surfeit, and disease, 
 
 The lord, and not the tyrant of the world.” 
 
 Thomson. 
 
 “ Milk is in part vegetable food ; and as such is used by all pasto- 
 ral nations, and serves in a measure as a substitute for it.” (Dr. 
 Lambe’s Reports on Regimen, p. 167.) 
 
 “ To prevent indigestion, milk ought not to be eat together with 
 flesh.” (Dr. Willet .) 
 
 “ Eggs contain a larger proportion of pure nourishment than any 
 other food. They are a most valuable article, not only when con- 
 sumed by themselves, but when mixed with other things. Raw, 
 poached, soft boiled, or in any ways lightly cooked, they are gently 
 laxative* and sit easy on most stomachs.” ( Sir John Sinclair's Code 
 of Health, Yol. I. p. 414.) 
 
 “ An entije diet of vegetable matter gives to the disposition a gen- 
 tleness, softness, and mildness of feeling, directly the reverse of that 
 ferocity of mind and fierceness of character which form the leading 
 feature of all carnivorous animals, it has also a particular influence 
 on the powers of the mind, producing liveliness of imagination and 
 acuteness of judgment in an eminent degree. (Sir John Sinclair's 
 Code of Health, Yol. I. p. 423.) 
 
 (25) Nor meet one star that gilds the glowing pole !) 
 
 “ Moenenius Agrippa dispelled the prejudice of the Roman people, 
 by a fabulous allusion to the absurdity and blindness of all the mem- 
 bers of the human body joining in rebellion against the stomach : — 
 and if fable or fact could be adduced with such successful persuasion 
 to dispel the blindness of modern luxury, the stomach would not so 
 perpetually be excited as it is, to the contrary office of waging war 
 against all the members of the body.” (Thomas Hare on the Sto- 
 mach, &c., London , 1821, p. 300.) 
 
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 “ The man who perceives in his own soul the supreme soul pre- 
 sent in all creatures, acquires kindness towards all, and shall be ab- 
 sorbed at last in the highest essence, even in that of the Almighty 
 himself.” {Laws of Menu.) 
 
 (26) Where health and purity should ever reign . 
 
 Tartar is an accumulation of acrimonious earthy matter, round 
 the necks of the teeth. This accretion arises from the fluid secre- 
 tions of the mouth, and consequently, few persons are entirely free 
 from it, though some, from the state of their general health, may be 
 more subject to it than others. The teeth to which it is generally 
 attached, are those that are the least acted upon in the process of 
 mastication ; and the molares of the upper, as well as the incisors of 
 the under jaw, being situated nearer to the salivary ducts, more rea- 
 dily become affected. Whenever tartar is permitted to accumulate 
 around the teeth, the gums, the membrane lining the alveoli, and 
 even the aveolar process itself, are liable to suffer through the pow- 
 ers of absorption being increased by inflammatory action. It thus 
 not unfrequently happens, that persons through want of proper care 
 and attention to the removal of tartar, have lost the whole of their 
 teeth. 
 
 “ The formation of a calculous deposit upon the teeth, in a greater 
 or less degree, may almost be said to be universal ; for, although in 
 many persons of sound health and temperate habits, it is possible, by 
 care, to remove it so immediately after its deposition, that the teeth 
 are kept generally free from it, still, I believe it is in all cases pro- 
 duced, and would accumulate, but for constant attention to the pro* 
 per means for its removal. It consists of calcareous substance, 
 which, when first deposited, is soft, friable, and readily crumbling 
 under the finger ; but gradually, and, as it were, by a slow kind of 
 crystallization, acquires almost a rocky hardness. Its usual color is 
 a dull, whitish yellow, or buff; though in some cases it is dark brown, 
 or black, and in others has a greenish hue. It also varies in the cha- 
 racter of its surface, being generally smooth, especially in those 
 parts where the tongue acts constantly upon it ; but occasionally, in 
 other parts, exceedingly rough and rugged. It is susceptible of 
 being stained by any coloring matter frequently taken into the mouth 
 during its deposition ; as, for instance, from smoking tobacco, or from 
 the long continued use of colored gargles, especially such as are 
 composed of articles which are not capable of perfect solution in 
 aqueous menstrua. 
 
 “ With the exception of gangrene, there is no kind of injury to 
 which the teeth are exposed, so commonly and so extensively des- 
 tructive as this concretion.” ( Bell on Human Teeth , p. 192.) 
 
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 (27) As death disparts the body from the soul . 
 
 <{ It will be objected, perhaps, to what we have said, that many 
 people who have beautiful teeth, and a healthy mouth, pay no atten- 
 tion to these parts ; whilst those who attach a great value to them, 
 and take the greatest care of them, have much trouble in preserving 
 them. But it will also be an easy matter to reply to these objections, 
 by making a comparison between children born of parents of sound 
 constitution, and reared in the country, and those born in cities, 
 whom an ill conducted education has predisposed to a debility of or- 
 ganization often to be recognised by the state of their teeth alone.— 
 It ought, therefore, perhaps to be remarked, that diseased teeth with 
 many individuals, originate in an organic disposition, which may be 
 transmitted from fathers to their children.” ( Gerbaux on the Teeth , 
 Edinburgh Edition , p. 23.) 
 
 ( 28 ) The brush , the dentrifice , and , from the spring . 
 
 “ It is a religious precept,” says Tournefort in his voyage to the 
 Levant, “ among the Mussulmen, to make the little ablution with the 
 face turned toward Mecca ; to rinse the mouth thrice, and clean their 
 teeth with a brush.” This shows how highly this custom is esteemed 
 among a people, who formerly were forbidden, according to Mena- 
 vius, to have a tooth extracted without permission from the emperor. 
 Let children be taught by their parents the proper degree of care 
 necessary for their teeth ; they generally imitate them even in their 
 sports : — here the agreeable lesson will be converted into a useful 
 habit. {Duval, p. 75.) 
 
 (29) And blooming health will soon reward it all . 
 
 “ As soon as the first teeth of a child are completed, they should 
 be brushed twice, or, at least, once a day, with a soft brush and 
 water. When children are thus early familiarized to the healthy and 
 necessary custom of brushing the teeth, it becomes a fixed habit, and 
 they find it ever afterward absolutely essential to their comfort. In 
 winter, or in cold weather, the water used in brushing the teeth 
 should be tepid. It is quite unnecessary to use any kind of powder 
 to the first teeth of children.” {Murphy on the Teeth, London, 1811 , 
 
 p. 118.) 
 
 (30) Restore her hopes, and make her lovely still. 
 
 Tartar is more safely removed by instruments than by such che- 
 mical solvents as have been too commonly employed ; for, although 
 
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 the injury they occasion is not at first perceptible, they ultimately 
 disorder the substance and texture of the teeth. This is not the 
 case when the operation is properly performed by means of instru- 
 ments ; and is attended with neither pain to the person, nor danger 
 to the enamel. 
 
 The manual operation of cleaning the teeth with instruments, is 
 not performed with equal skill and delicacy by all who practise it. — 
 There are, of course, as many different degrees of merit in dentists, 
 as there are in the practitioners of any other art or science. 
 
 ( 31 ) The offspring of an epicurean age. 
 
 “ But just disease to luxury succeeds, 
 
 And every death its own avenger breeds ; 
 
 The fury passions first from blood began, 
 
 And turned on man a fiercer savage — man.’' 
 
 Pope’s Essay on Man , Epistle III. 
 
 ( 32 ) And hears them all successively away. 
 
 Caries is the most frequent disease of the teeth. The general 
 seat of it is, on the sides of the front teeth and in the centre and 
 sides of the back ones. Its progress through all its different stages 
 is easily marked. First of all, a small dark spot appears on the ena- 
 mel, through which the disease quickly passes into the internal struc- 
 ture of the bone. When this has taken place, the least pressure from 
 chewing any hard substance is liable to break away portions of the 
 enamel, and thus the internal part becomes subject to every injury 
 which can arise from extraneous matter lodging therein. The mo- 
 lares are more subject to this disease than the front teeth ; first, be- 
 cause their indented surfaces more readily retain any extraneous 
 matter ; and secondly, because they are less in view, and conse- 
 quently less attended to. 
 
 In the enamel of the most apparently perfect teeth, small cracks 
 may, with a magnifying power, easi'y be discovered. These, al- 
 though unnoticed by the individual, are sufficient to admit disordered 
 fluids, and to account for many forms of decay. This may likewise 
 account for decay taking place in the broad surfaces of the molares, 
 where the points of contraction always produce a depression, and 
 thus afford a convenient lodgment for acrid saliva and other decom- 
 posing agents. 
 
 From my own observations I am induced to believe, that caries is 
 universally caused by the action of external agents ; and therefore 
 cleanliness, and a due regard to the general health, after the proper 
 offices of the dentist are performed, is the only guard against it. But 
 some teeth, from their being of less dense structure, are less capable 
 
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 of resisting the action of decomposing matter, and consequently will 
 require greater attention to ward off disease. 
 
 Mr. Brewster, of Charleston, whose experience, from having been 
 fifteen years in extensive practice, has given him ample opportunities 
 of judging, has, in a manuscript with which he politely furnished me, 
 enumerated the following as the principal causes of decay. Consti- 
 tutional softness of the teeth ; The use of medicines during dentition 
 or in after life ; the too free use of acids, which, uniting with the lime 
 in the enamel, destroys its strength ; A too slow growth of the teeth 
 between the time of protruding their points through the gum, and the 
 full development of their crowns. It will often happen that the pro- 
 jecting points of the grinding teeth pass through the gum, and there 
 for a long time remain with a portion of the surface, comprehending 
 the indentations of the . grinding surface, partially covered with the 
 gum. As there is no union between the enamel and the gum, fine 
 and soft particles of food insinuate themselves between the gum and 
 the tooth. This matter decays, and the acid generated thereby 
 acts perniciously on the enamel, and lays the foundation for subse- 
 quent decay of the tooth. The remedy is simple, and, in most cases, 
 effectual. It consists in removing the gum from the top of the tooth, 
 which is performed by a skilful operation, with little or no pain to the 
 patient. This prolific source of decay I am not aware has ever been 
 noticed by any writer on the teeth. Another prolific source of decay 
 is the permitting a new tooth to come in contact with the decaying 
 part of an old one. The remedy consists in removing a portion or 
 the whole of the old tooth. 
 
 The too free use of mercury ; The accumulation of tartar ; Ne- 
 glect of cleanliness by suffering the particles of food to remain be- 
 tween the teeth after meals ; Irregular living, or any other cause 
 which occasions a disordered stomach ; Extremes of heat and cold ; 
 All Acids, whether in fruits, powders, or lotions ; Metalic tooth- 
 picks ; Injudicious dental operations ; Most of the nostrums adminis- 
 tered for tooth ache. 
 
 “ I propose,” says Mr. Bell, “ to substitute for the word caries, the 
 term gangrene of the teeth, which expresses the real nature of the 
 disease. It may be defined — mortification of any part of a tooth, 
 producing gradual decomposition of its substance. It usually attacks 
 the crown of the tooth ; sometimes, though rarely, the neck ; but I 
 believe it scarcely ever makes its first appearance on the root. It 
 invariably shows itself on the external surface of the bone, imme- 
 diately underneath the enamel, and its existence is, in many cases, 
 first indicated by an opaque spot on that substance, occasioned by 
 partial breaking down of its crystalline structure ; in others, its 
 presence is shown by the discolored bone being seen through the 
 semi-transparency of the enamel.” ( Bell on the Human Teeth , p. 
 1 J 8.) 
 
 I have made the foregoing quotation from the work of Mr. Thomas 
 
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 Bel], with whom I once conversed personally on the doctrine contained 
 therein, for the purpose of expressing my entire dissent from the 
 opinion held by most of the writers on this subject, in relation both 
 to the local origin, and the immediate cause of caries, or dental gan- 
 grene. Some of these writers divide the disease into two kinds, 
 which they distinguish by the names external and internal caries ; 
 while others inculcate the doctrine so hostile to all my experience 
 and observation, that caries commences, as Mr. Bell says in the pas- 
 sage quoted, on the surface of the bone, under the enamel, and that 
 the disease becomes visible through the semi-transparency of the 
 enamel, which itself is destroyed by being broken away by mechani- 
 cal violence. Now I must aver, that after a constant and exten- 
 sively diversified practice of nineteen years, both in Europe and 
 America, I have never known a solitary instance of this disorder 
 which was not evidently occasioned from external causes on the sur- 
 face of the tooth, penetrating first through the enamel, if on the body 
 of the tooth, and then assailing the bony structure. 
 
 There are teeth that are faulty, both in their enamel and organiza- 
 tion ; owing, probably, to constitutional or hereditary peculiarities 
 which have not, as I am aware, ever been satisfactorily explained 
 by any author. 
 
 As to the cause of caries, I published my opinion many years ago, 
 first in London, and afterwards in this city, and have seen no cause 
 to espouse a contrary opinion. I consider the immediate and excit- 
 ing cause of dental decay to be always external to the tooth itself, 
 and to consist of certain corrosive menstrua, to which these organs 
 are exposed from bodily disease, improper aliments, powerful medi- 
 cines and the thousand other sources of acrid filth and destructive 
 poisons that become concentrated in the mouth and deposited upon 
 the teeth. These procuring causes of caries may indeed derive their 
 origin from constitutional diseases acting upon the system at various 
 periods of life, but whatever internal defect of structure a tooth may 
 derive from original organization, how much soever it may be pre- 
 disposed to take a diseased action under favorable conditions, still, the 
 tooth never decays till externally affected by putrescent, or corrosive, 
 or disorganizing matter, which breaks up its structure. 
 
 That such has been my uniform opinion, will be seen from the fol- 
 lowing extract from the work on the stomach and digestive organs, 
 published by Dr. Thomas Hare, Fellow of the Royal College of 
 Surgeons in London, in 1821. 
 
 “ The theories concerning the cause of decay in the teeth which 
 seem to have met most attention, are those referring it to an undue 
 degree of compression exerted by the irlateral surfaces on each 
 other, and to a putrefactive fermentation of extraneous matter lodg- 
 ing in the interstices. The former has been ably set forth by Mr. 
 Bell, of St. Thomas’s Hospital, in the Medico-chirurgical Transac- 
 tions ; the latter was published about two years ago, by Mr. Parmly.” 
 (page 269.) 
 
appendix. 
 
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 (S3) A dream forgot , a tale of other years. 
 
 Dr. Fitch alleges the following three modes in which disordered 
 teeth contribute to the production of that distressing disease— the 
 dyspepsy, or indigestion. 
 
 “ First, by preventing a proper mastication of the food. 
 
 “ Secondly, by the ulcerated and putrid matter which passes from 
 the teeth and gums, along with the aliment, to the stomach. 
 
 “ Thirdly, the irritation produced by diseased teeth, being often so 
 great as to disturb the healthy functions of the system, and of the 
 stomach in particular.” ( Fitch on the Teeth , p. 308.) 
 
 (34) Most justly damned to everlasting fame ! 
 
 “ The pain commonly termed the tooth-ache is one of the most 
 excruciating to which we are liable. It is caused by an inflamma- 
 tion of the membrane lining the cavity. In inflammation, one of the 
 consequences is a swelling of the part, which is generally followed 
 by a diminution of the pain, the degree of which seems to be regu- 
 lated by the resistance and compression which the inflamed vessels 
 suffer from the surrounding parts. The membrane of the tooth being 
 situated within a cavity which is incapable of extension, there must 
 necessarily exist an insurmountable obstacle to the swelling of the 
 membrane ; and this it is which renders the pain so extremely acute. 
 In some few instances, caries will proceed without being accompa- 
 nied by any sensations ; the tooth gradually breaks away, until the 
 whole of it is removed.” (Fox, Part II. p. 25.) 
 
 “ The pain called tooth- ache, which Galen very properly consi- 
 dered the most cruel and grievous of al! pains that are not mortal,, 
 seems clearly to be occasioned by decayed portions of bone, no 
 matter how minute, acting by contact on the nerves of the teeth. — - 
 And I firmly believe the pain is never felt until the caries, which al- 
 ways acts from without inwards, has actually met a branch of nerve. 
 
 “ No species of animal matter, in a state of decay, is so offensive 
 to the vitality of the adjoining substance, whether nerve, or muscle,, 
 or membrane, or any part or portion of the living body, as decayed 
 bone. Flow very small a portion of decayed bone in a tooth is ca- 
 pable not only of causing the most agonizing pains, but also of com- 
 municating a feetor to the breath, is inconceivable by those who have 
 not pursued the inquiry with minuteness : and this offensive matter,, 
 when it thus has an opportunity of acting, communicates, through 
 the medium of the nerves, a sympathetic pain to the teeth which are 
 perfectly sound.” ( Hare on the Stomach, p. 240.) 
 
 In addition to the preceding remarks, I observe, that the tooth-ache- 
 is sometimes so severe as to produce alarming derangements of health \ 
 
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 while at other times it is merely an annoying sensation, which can 
 scarcely be termed pain. The cavity of the tooth, in most cases, is 
 the original seat of this malady. But as the teeth are supplied by 
 ramifications of those nerves which supply different parts of the face 
 and head, it frequently happens that one or more of those parts may 
 suffer more severely than the tooth itself. 
 
 Diseases in the wisdom teeth of the lower jaw affect the ear ; 
 and when those of the upper jaw are diseased, the temples generally 
 become affected. The effects of disease in one tooth, from nervous 
 influence, is sometimes felt in the opposing tooth of the other jaw. 
 
 No certain treatment can be laid down for the tooth-ache ; it must 
 be regulated entirely by a knowledge of the cause, whether arising 
 from decay, the irritation of tartar, the application of cold, or merely 
 as a sympathetic affection. The disease which occasions this ma- 
 lady is insidious in its progress, dangerous and sometimes fatal in its 
 consequences ; but the danger more frequently arises from an impro- 
 per application of remedies, than from the disease itself. Powerful 
 remedies for the tooth-ache, as well as for other diseases, are hazard- 
 ous in the hands of the ignorant. 
 
 (35) And tooth-ache came , the terror of mankind ! 
 
 “ When pains in the teeth show a disposition to change their places 
 with great facility, like all rheumatic affections, they may yield to 
 the most insignificant means, even to the touch of some amulet, ap- 
 plied with an air of mystery and confidence which imposes upon the 
 patient. Every one knows, that in timid people, the presence of a 
 surgeon, in most instances, is sufficient, for a time, to dispel the pain 
 of tooth-ache. It is particularly for these pains that some dentists 
 have a favorite odontalgic elixir, of whose sovereign virtues they are 
 so fond of boasting. These liquors are almost all spirituous tinc- 
 tures, whose powerfully stimulating action often suffices to suspend 
 the pain. 
 
 “ In fact, a drop of the tincture of opium, or any one of the essen- 
 tial oils, applied to the part by means of a little cotton, may produce 
 an instantaneous abatement of the pain, but which seldom fails, 
 sooner or later, to return. Frequent successes of this kind, of which 
 marvellous accounts are daily published, have successfully brought 
 into vogue numerous elixirs and various other means, all rpore or 
 less ridiculous.” ( Gerbaux , pp. 80, 83.) 
 
 <s Doctor Sims, a celebrated practitioner in London, relates that he 
 was such a martyr to the tooth-ache, that he was confined to his 
 house for several weeks together by that malady, but after he 
 avoided taking his food either hot or cold, he entirely escaped it. 
 He was particularly careful not to take soup or any other liquid, of 
 a temperature higher than ninety — eight degrees less than blood heat. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
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 He tfras induced to try this experiment, by reflecting that heat ex- 
 panded all bodies. When applied to a tooth, therefore, it must di- 
 minish its cavity, compress the nerve, and consequently produce 
 pain. However defective this theory may be, the practice of endea- 
 voring to preserve those parts in an equable temperature, will be 
 found to be highly important.” (Duval. — Atkinson’s translation , p. 
 76.) 
 
 (36) To mercy deaf, by sorrowing man accurst . 
 
 The following characteristic lines are from the “ Address to the 
 Toothache,” by Robert Burns : — 
 
 “My curse upon your venomed stang, 
 
 That shoots my tortured gums alang, 
 
 And through my lugs gi’es money a twang, 
 Wi’ gnawing vengeance ! 
 Tearing my nerves wi’ bitter pang, 
 
 Like racking engines l 
 
 “ When fevers burn, or ague freezes, 
 .Rheumatics gnaw, or cholic squeezes, 
 
 Our neighbors’ sympathy may ease us 
 Wi’ pitying moan ; 
 
 But thou — the hell o’ a’ diseases, 
 
 Ay mocks our groan ! 
 
 “ Where’er the place be priests ca’ hell. 
 Whence a’ the tones o’ misery yell, 
 
 And ranked plagues their numbers tell, 
 
 In dreadfu’ raw ; 
 
 Thou — tooth-ache, surely bear’6t the bell, 
 Amangst them a.’ ” 
 
 “We were interrupted by Mr. L. He is one of your plain, com- 
 mon sense sort of people, practical, fixed in his own opinions, a little 
 inclined to stoicism, with a dash of savage philosophy, partly 
 affected to hide tenderer feelings, and about six feet and an inch 
 high, without his shoes. 
 
 What’s the matter with your face V inquired he. 
 
 “ f Tooth ache,’ said I, ‘ all swelled : keeps me awake, and’- 
 
 “ ‘ Try my nitri dulcis and alumpulv.,’ said W. 
 
 “ ‘ Curse your nitri dulcis and alum pulv .,’ said L., ‘ there is but 
 one cure for the tooth-ache, and that’s a sure one,’ 
 
 “ I looked tremblingly up. He had his great, square fist doubled, 
 as if he held something in his hand. He raised it to his mouth, and 
 screwed around with the motion of a dentist, uprooting some huge,, 
 double grinder, with three diverging prongs. My friends were 
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 silent. I turned a little pale. He saw what an impression he had 
 made, and with a grin that went to my very soul, added ; — 
 
 “ * Out with it, you fool, and there’s an end. It’s worth all the 
 nilri dulcis and alumpulv. in the universe.’ 
 
 “ There was a melancholy truth in what he remarked. It sunk 
 into my heart ; I made up my mind ; and when my worthy advis- 
 ers left me, I walked around to Mr. •. There was an awful 
 
 silence — a moment of intense fear — a slight struggle — an agony — a 
 cry from the heart’s core — I came out the happiest of men.” — 
 (Breams and Reveries of a Quiet Man , by Theodore S. Fay , Esq. 
 Vol. I. p. 187.) 
 
 (37) And stops the fearful progress of decay . 
 
 As great disadvantages frequently arise when teeth are decayed, 
 from their crowding against each other, it becomes expedient, with a 
 view to stop the progress of incipient disease, to remove portions 
 from their sides by means of a file; but, if this operation be not per- 
 formed before considerable parts are decayed, it must not be ex- 
 pected to afford lasting benefit. The incisors and canine teeth may 
 be filed with the greatest probability of success ; but the bicuspides 
 and molares have such large surfaces, that caries often extends itself 
 by far too deep before it is observed, to be effectually removed by 
 the file. Little advantage can be expected from filing, unless the 
 ■whole diseased part be effectually removed. 
 
 It is proper to observe, that there are some teeth, which, although 
 attended to at an early period, are but little benefitted by the opera- 
 tion, either from some original defect in their organization, or certain 
 peculiarities of constitution ; but this is, by no means, commonly the 
 case ; and the instances of its proving essentially serviceable are so 
 innumerable, that it may be recommended with the highest confi- 
 dence of success. 
 
 (38) Performs in nature one substantial use . 
 
 The benefits of the operation of stopping the teeth are so truly 
 important, that it is impossible to recommend it too earnestly to the 
 public ; for thousands of the most useful teeth, which otherwise 
 would, on account of their painfulness, be sacrificed by extraction, 
 may thus be preserved, not only for many years, but for the remain- 
 der of a long life. 
 
 The finest teeth are commonly the most highly organized, and 
 therefore become more acutely painful when only a very small por- 
 tion is decayed. The operation of stopping will always succeed, if 
 performed before the decay has reached the sensible part of the 
 
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 83 
 
 tooth, unless its cavity be superficial, or of a funnel shape, and not 
 capable of being sufficiently deepened for retaining the gold. In 
 such cases, all attempts at stopping it will be fruitless. But if the 
 depth be sufficient towards the sensible part of the tooth to allow of 
 the excavation being made larger, or directed obliquely or other- 
 wise, as may be most eligible for receiving and securing the gold, the 
 caries may be so effectually arrested as to cause no farther uneasi- 
 ness to the patient. 
 
 “ There is no object connected with dental surgery of more im- 
 portance than that of stopping. There is none better deserving the 
 attention of the student, nor is there any in which the dentist may 
 more successfully display his professional skill, Were we to judge, 
 indeed, from the almost innumerable cases of failure which occur, we 
 might conclude that the uncertainty of the operation was so great as 
 essentially to diminish its utility and importance. These cases, how- 
 ever, generally occur under the management of ignorant persons, 
 who are alike incompetent to the mechanical and the surgical part of 
 the operation, and who are equally incapable of choosing a proper 
 time for its performance.” (Snell on the Teeth , p. 151 .) 
 
 “ If properly done,” says Dr. Fitch, “ this is one of the most use- 
 ful operations in dental surgery ; and if practicable, it bears the pre- 
 ference to any other operation for the cure of diseased teeth. It 
 should be an object of solicitude in every case, when we are called 
 upon to extract or file the teeth, to obviate both operations by plug- 
 ging them, if in any way expedient or practicable.” ( Fitch on the 
 Teeth , p. 398.) 
 
 “ I have no hesitation in affirming this to be one of the most im- 
 portant and useful operations that can be performed.” ( Sigmond .) 
 
 “ By the beautiful and useful operation of stopping or plugging 
 teeth which are greatly decayed by caries, they may be pre- 
 served for many years ; in most instances during the remainder of 
 life : and not unfrequently, from ten to twenty teeth may be pre- 
 served by this operation in the same individual.” ( Koecker ). 
 
 (39) And pointing to the portal of the tomb . 
 
 We have a most humiliating reflection, in observing the powers 
 of renovation which are enjoyed by the inhabitants of shells, some of 
 which, after their testaceous coverings have been broken, whether 
 on the edges, in holes, or in cracks about the middle, no matter 
 where — possess the power of directing, from their secretory ves- 
 sels, a sufficient quantity of calcareous matter and animal gluten to 
 repair the injury effectually ; — whereas man has not the power of 
 directing a single particle, either of earthy or glutinous matter, from 
 his secretory system, to repair a small deficiency of enamel, which 
 is literally a modification of porcelain shell, and the loss of which 
 
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 makes every accession of cold actually distressing.” ( Hare on the 
 Stomachy p. 277.) 
 
 (40) A shining panoply of orient pearls . 
 
 The chief object of attention in artificial teeth is, that the sub- 
 stance be durable, and not liable to change color. Human teeth and 
 those of small animals have been heretofore supposed to answer the 
 best purpose, while teeth cut from those of the sea horse have 
 ranked next in importance ; but lately, they have been formed with 
 great success from certain materials known to the manufacturers, 
 and have been variously denominated, according to the taste of the 
 artist — silicious pearl teeth— mineral teeth — porcelain teeth — incor- 
 ruptible, and terro-metallic. Under these titles, teeth of various de- 
 grees of excellence are now made, both in Europe and this country, and 
 from their great beauty, cleanliness, durability, and unchangeableness 
 in regard to color, will no doubt be generally adopted. They certainly 
 possess some advantages over any other substitute for original teeth. 
 
 Of the various methods which have been devised for fixing artifi- 
 cial teeth, the most successful is, that of fastening a new tooth by 
 means of a pivot to a sound fang. When thus fastened, the tooth 
 may be worn for a considerable time without producing any incon- 
 venience. The next method is, to adapt a tooth to the aperture 
 from which another has been extracted, and to fasten it to the ad- 
 joining teeth. A third method is, to supply the place of teeth by 
 means of a gold plate, to which the substitutes are firmly affixed, the 
 plate being fitted to the gums, and supported by means of springs. 
 A fourth mode of supplying teeth, by which whole sets may be pro- 
 vided and worn with great convenience, is to prepare gold or ivory 
 frames, fitted closely to the gums, on which the teeth are firmly ar- 
 ranged, and, by means of springs, made to^perform all the most essen- 
 tial functions of original teeth. 
 
 (41) Like Him who Jills unnumbered worlds with joy . 
 
 “ He who pursues his own advantage only, so far as he can do so 
 without injuring another, is just ; he who gives up his superfluity ra- 
 ther than do harm to another, is noble ; he who works only for the 
 common welfare, is the most noble, and no one but him deserves that 
 name.” ( Spurzheim .) 
 
 (42) Disturb the system when themselves destroyed. 
 
 “ I have been made happy by discovering that I have only added 
 to the observations of other physicians in pointing out a connexfo- 
 
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 between the extraction of decayed and diseased teeth, and the cure 
 of general diseases. Several instances of the efficacy of that remedy 
 in relieving head-ache and vertigo are mentioned by Dr. Darwin. 
 Dr. Gatu relates that M. Petit, a celebrated French surgeon, had 
 often cured intermittent fevers, which had resisted the bark for 
 months, and even years, by this prescription; and he quotes from his 
 work two cases, one of consumption, and one of vertigo, both of 
 long continuance, which were suddenly cured by the extraction of 
 two decayed teeth in the former, and two supernumerary teeth in 
 the latter case. 
 
 “ These facts should not surprise us, when we recollect how often 
 the most general diseases are brought on by very inconsiderable in- 
 lets of morbid excitement into the system. A small tumor, con- 
 cealed in the fleshy part of the leg, has been known to bring on epilepsy. 
 A trifling wound with a splinter or a nail, even after it has healed, 
 has often induced a fatal tetanus. Worms in the bowels have pro- 
 duced internal dropsy of the brain, and a stone in the kidney has 
 excited the most violent commotions in every part of the system. — 
 Many hundred facts of a similar nature are to be met in the records 
 of medicine. 
 
 “ When we consider how often the teeth, when decayed, are ex- 
 posed to irritation from hoi and cold drinks and aliments, from pres- 
 sure by mortification, and from the cold air, and how intimate the 
 connection of the mouth is with the whole system, I am disposed to 
 believe they are often unsuspected causes of general, and particu- 
 larly of nervous diseases. When we add to the list of those diseases 
 the morbid effects of the acrid and putrid matters which are some- 
 times discharged from carious teeth, or from ulcers in the gums 
 created by them, also the influences which both have in preventing 
 perfect mastication, and the connection of the animal function with 
 good health, I cannot help thinking, that our success in the treatment 
 of all chronic diseases would be very much promoted by directing 
 our inquiries into the state of the teeth of sick people, and by advis- 
 ing their extraction in every case in which they are decayed. It is 
 not necessary that they should be attended with pain in order to 
 produce diseases, for splinters, tumors, and other irritants before 
 mentioned, often bring on diseases and death when they give no pain, 
 nor are suspected as causes of them. This transition of sensation 
 and motion to parts remote from the place where impressions are 
 made, appears in many instances, and seems to depend upon an ori- 
 ginal law of the animal economy.” ( Medical Inquiries by Dr . 
 Rush, Yol. I. p. 199.) 
 
 (43) And spreads disease with every pulse that beats. 
 
 That the general health of the body is affected by the state of the 
 stomach and lungs, is a proposition which few, if any, will deny. — - 
 
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 And that the condition of either depends on the nature of whatever 
 is introduced into it, will likewise be readily admitted. The effects 
 which the state of the teeth may have upon the lungs, may there- 
 fore be considered in the first place. The chemical process which 
 is carried on in the mouth, by means of its moisture and heat, will 
 always, in a greater or less degree, cause the putrefaction of what- 
 ever extraneous matter is permitted to lodge upon or between the 
 teeth. The air, even in the most open situation, is affected by pass- 
 ing over any putrescent substance. Now as the mouth is the chief 
 passage by which the air enters the lungs, and as the air is affected 
 by whatever it passes over or through, the lungs can never receive it 
 in a pure state, except the mouth, through which it is introduced, be 
 perfectly clean and healthy. But while any extraneous matter is 
 permitted to accumulate and remain on the teeth, the mouth will na- 
 turally become unclean and unhealthy, imparting an infectious taint 
 to the air which is inhaled. 
 
 “ Fetid breath is occasioned by the state of the mouth, and seldom 
 results from the condition of the stomach or digestive organs, as erro- 
 neously supposed. 1 he escape of vapor from a disordered stomach 
 can produce only a temporary effect, but from uncleanliness of the 
 mouth, we find the taint constant and habitual ; and unless the cause 
 be eradicated, all the spices and perfumes of the east, though they 
 may for a moment conceal, cannot remove it. Cleanliness of the 
 mouth, therefore, is of great importance to the general health ; in 
 fact, the danger of the lungs from a constantly putrid effluvium has 
 been strongly commented upon by the faculty of medicine, as a lead- 
 ing cause of pulmonary consumption.” (A. S. Parmly’s Lectures.) 
 
 “We respire,” says Dr. Fitch, “about twenty thousand times in 
 twenty-four hours, and yet, for months and years, this vast quantity 
 of air is rendered poisonous by one or more diseased teeth. How 
 little does it avail an individual, if by every possible means the purity 
 of the air is preserved ; if no impurities are suffered to remain in the 
 streets ; if his tenements are kept clean, his apartments ventilated ; 
 if he make distant journeys at a great expense of time and money, 
 for the benefit of pure air, and, at the same time, carry the cloaca of 
 filth in his own mouth ? If this state of the breath, caused by bad 
 teeth, so affects the olfactory nerves of a person near an individual 
 having bad teeth, what must be its effect upon the delicate and sensi- 
 ble tissues of the lungs of the person himself? Nature has formed 
 the lungs most delicate and sensible, and susceptible to the slight- 
 est injurious impressions : — She has also finely tempered the atmos- 
 phere for its safe and healthy reception in these delicate organs ; but 
 an accident, or a disease, may render it impure, unfit for respiration, 
 and cause it, instead of harmonizing with the lungs in the most per- 
 fect manner, to exercise a baneful influence, armed with pestilence, 
 and scattering the seeds of disease over the lungs, thus pouring the 
 streams of deadly poison through every vein in the system. The 
 
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 87 
 
 matter thrown off from the teeth in a state of disease and putrefac- 
 tion, and also some states of diseased gums, is very acrid in its nature, 
 as is demonstrated by its vitiating the saliva so much as to dissolve 
 and oxydate metals, even silver, and to tarnish gold. We know that 
 many of our organs have the power of resisting, for a length of time, 
 in a wonderful manner, the effects of injurious impressions ; but with 
 the lungs I am disposed to believe that even slightly injurious impres- 
 sions, if continued, will, sooner or later, prove to them a cause of 
 disease and disorganization.” ( Fitch on the Teeth , pp. 300, 301.) 
 
 (44) Each dental malady a thousand ways . 
 
 “ These sympathetic pains arising from carious teeth, proceed from 
 the intimate connection that subsists between the branches of the 
 fifth and those of the seventh pair of nerves. The pain in the ear is r 
 therefore sympathetic, arising from disease in the dens sapientiae. 
 From the connexion which subsists between these two pairs of 
 nerves, it happens that not only inflammation in the teeth causes a 
 sympathetic pain in the ears, but disagreeable and unharmonious 
 sounds produce a sympathetic effect upon the teeth, and occasion 
 that unpleasant sensation called the teeth being set on edge.” (Fox 
 on the Teeth , Part II. p. 31.) 
 
 “ The sympathetic affections to which the tooth-ache gives rise, 
 are exceedingly various and important ; though it is only of late 
 years they have been properly understood, and the attention of me- 
 dical men directed to their true source. It not unfrequently happens, 
 that parts the most remote become the apparent seat of pain, from 
 the exposure of the nerve of a tooth. I have seen this occur, not 
 only in the face, over the scalp, in the ear, or underneath the lower 
 jaw, but down the neck, over the shoulder, and along the whole length 
 of the arm.” (Bell on the Teeth , p. 155.) 
 
 (45) And oft the maniac sufferer expires. 
 
 “ A person complained,” says Dr. Fuller, “ of seemingly violent 
 spasms in the head, which instantly deprived her of sense and mo- 
 tion, and she fell down lifeless for some time. She had been subject 
 to these fits, I think, for two or three years, but of late they had be- 
 come very frequent; no pain succeeded them, nor were they pie- 
 ceded by any symptoms, except by a trifling pain which darted into 
 one of the third grinders that was decayed : — nor did she know what 
 tooth-ache was. Having seen the most astonishing effects of caries- 
 in these teeth, I recommended the tooth to be extracted, and on re- 
 moving it, she expressed herself by saying, that it seemed to pull up 
 the root of the complaint. 
 
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 “ I have twice extracted teeth when the most severe pain was in 
 the elbow ; in both instances, it was one of the large molares of the 
 under jaw ; and in both, the pain of the elbow vanished on remov- 
 ing the teeth.” ( Fuller on the Teeth , p. 71.) 
 
 (46) That feels the living impulse of the heart. 
 
 It may be necessary to explain briefly the passage of the food 
 through the alimentary canal, and the manner in whieh the chyle is 
 converted into blood. 
 
 The food is received into the mouth, masticated between the teeth, 
 imbued with saliva, and forced through the constrictors of the pha- 
 rynx down the oesophagus into the stomach. It is then mixed with 
 the gastric juice, which is secreted from the inner surface of the 
 stomach ; and this is found to be the immediate agent for effecting 
 the change that the food undergoes. A knowledge of no part of 
 physiology is more useful, than of the digestive organs. 
 
 “ The peculiar properties of gastric juice render it one of the 
 most powerful productions of the animal body. It is not a simple 
 dilutent, but a solvent ; and has the power of breaking down the 
 food, and converting it into a soft, homogeneous paste, known by the 
 name of chyme. So powerful is its faculty of solution, that the hard 
 bones which dogs devour cannot resist its action. It not only unites 
 with and dissolves the food, but changes its nature and composition. 
 It is found to be of an antiseptic property, and corrects putrescency 
 instead of inducing it. After the food has been properly acted upon 
 by the gastric juice, it passes through a muscular contraction of the 
 stomach, called the pylorus, into the duodenum. Here the food un- 
 dergoes other changes, equally as important as those already pro- 
 duced on it in the stomach : — it mixes with the bile brought by the 
 ducts from the liver, and with the pancreatic fluid from the pancreas. 
 Having remained some time exposed to the action of these fluids, it 
 is separated into two parts, an excrementitious, and a nutritious.” — 
 {Richer and’ s Physiology , p. 119.) 
 
 “ After the food has remained a certain time within the duodenum, 
 and this separation taken place, it proceeds along the other smaller in- 
 testines, the jejunum and ilium. By means of the peristaltic con- 
 tractions of these intestines, the nutritious part of the food is said to 
 be pressed out, and this is taken up by the inhalent mouths of the 
 lacteals. The alimentary mass parts gradually with its nutritive par- 
 ticles, and passes from the small into the large intestines, the caecum, 
 the colon, and rectum. 
 
 “ The nutritious part of the food taken up by the lacteals, is con- 
 veyed by different branches into the thoracic duct, and thence into 
 the left subclavian vein, where it mixes with the blood brought back 
 from the upper extremities. The subclavian vein terminates in the 
 
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 89 
 
 vena cava, and this in the right auricle of the heart.’’ The reason 
 for the chyle entering the blood in the subclavian vein is explained as 
 follows, by Dr. Paley “ The chyle enters the blood in an odd place, 
 but perhaps the most commodious place possible, viz., at a large vein 
 in the neck, so situated with respect to the circulation, as speedily to 
 bring the mixture to the heart. And this seems to be of great mo- 
 ment ; for had the chyle entered the blood at an artery, or at a dist- 
 ant vein, the fluid composed of the old and new materials must have 
 performed a considerable part of the circulation, before it received 
 that churning in the lungs which is probably necessary for the inti- 
 mate and perfect union of the old blood with the recent chyle.” 
 (Paley’ s Natural Theology.) 
 
 “ It is now necessary that this new venous blood, which is of a 
 dark color, should undergo changes indispensable to life. The right 
 auricle contracting, the blood is propelled into the right ventricle, 
 and from the ventricle it is farther forced through the pulmonary 
 artery into the lungs. While circulating through them, it is exposed 
 in the air cells to the atmospheric air taken in during respiration : — 
 a change takes place ; the blood becomes of a florid red color, sub- 
 servient to the principles of life, and is returned by the pulmonary 
 veins into the left auricle of the heart ; and passing from them into 
 the left ventricle, this ventricle contracts and propels the blood, by 
 means of the aorta, to all parts of the body. 
 
 44 Different opinions are entertained of the change which the blood 
 undergoes in the lungs. Some physiologists imagine that it receives 
 oxygen from the air : others that it gives offits superabundant carbon, 
 and that the air is expired as carbonic acid gas. It is here sufficient 
 to state, that the change is necessary to life, and that the blood sent 
 to the lungs is of a dark color, while that which returns from them 
 is a florid red, subservient to the functions of the animal economy.” 
 ( Waite’s Manual , 1826, p. 70.) 
 
 (47) May rise terrific from that single source ! 
 
 “ Mechanical trituration is not the only change that the food under- 
 goes in the mouth. Subjected to the action of the organs of masti- 
 cation, which overcome the force of cohesion of its molecules, it is 
 at the same period imbued with saliva. This fluid, secreted by glands 
 placed in the vicinity of the mouth, is poured in considerable quanti- 
 ty into that cavity during mastication. 
 
 “ The saliva is a transparent and viscous fluid, formed of about 
 four parts of water and one of albumen, in which are dissolved phos- 
 phate of lime, of soda, and of ammonia, as well as a quantity[of muri- 
 ate of soda. Like all other albuminous fluids, it froths when agita- 
 ted, by absorbing oxygen, for which it appears to have a strong affi- 
 nity. Its affinity for oxygen is such, that we may oxydize gold and 
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 silver by triturating in saliva, thin leaves of these metals, which are 
 of such difficult oxydizement. The irritation occasioned by the pre- 
 sence or desire of food, and by mastication, excites the salivary 
 glands, which swell and become so many centres of fluxion, towards 
 which the humours flow abundantly. 
 
 “ It is estimated that about six ounces of saliva are secreted during 
 the average time of a meal. It flows in greater quantity when the 
 food is acrid and stimulating. It mixes with the mucus copiously se- 
 creted from the glands, and with the serous fluids exhaled by the ex- 
 halent arteries of the mouth. There can be no doubt that the saliva, 
 mixing with the food by the motion of the jaws, absorbs oxygen, and 
 unites to the alimentary substances a quantity of that gas fit to bring 
 about the changes they are ultimately destined to undergo.” {Ri- 
 cherand's Physiology , p. 96.) 
 
 (48J Nor asks a staff to guide him to the grave . 
 
 The following judicious observations, made nearly two centuries 
 ago, will serve to convince the reader that the opinions sustained irr 
 this volume are neither new nor singular. 
 
 The terrible pains and diseases of the teeth do chiefly proceed 
 from two causes. The first is from certain filthy phlegmy matter 
 which the stomach and vessels do continually breathe and send forth, 
 which does lodge or centre in the mouth, especially between the 
 teeth, and on the gums ; and some people having louler stomachs 
 than others, such do breathe forth very sour, stinking, phlegmy mat- 
 ter, which does not only increase the pain, but causeth the teeth to 
 become loose and rotten. And for want of continual cleansing and 
 washing, those breathings and this phlegmy matter turns to putre- 
 faction, which does eat away the gums, as though worms hod eaten 
 them. And this defect is generally attributed to the disease called 
 the scurvy ; but it is a mistake : the cause is chiefly, as is mentioned 
 before, from the stomach, or for want of cleansing. 
 
 “ This distemper of the teeth and gums does also proceed from 
 the various sorts of meats and drinks, and more especially from the 
 continual eating of flesh, and fat sweet things, compounded of various 
 things of disagreeing natures, that do not only obstruct the stomach 
 but fur and foul the mouth, part thereof remaining upon the gums, 
 and between the teeth. For all such things do quickly turn to putre- 
 faction, which does by degrees corrupt both the teeth and gums. 
 Besides, our beds take up near half the time of our lives, which time 
 the body is not only without motion, but the bed and coverings do 
 keep it much hotter than the day-garments, especially of those that 
 draw the curtains of their windows and beds so close, that the pure 
 spirits and thin refreshing vapors of the air are hindered of having 
 their free egress and regress, which does dull and flatten the action of 
 
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 91 
 
 the stomach ; and this is the chief cause why suppers lie hard in the 
 stomach, and require more than double the time for perfect concoc- 
 tion, that the same food does when a man is up and in open air : for 
 this element, if it hath its free influence, is sucked in, as by sponges, 
 through all the pores of the body, and does wonderfully refresh, com- 
 fort, open and cleanse all the parts, having power to assist and help 
 concoction : but hot, dull, thick airs, do destroy the action of the sto- 
 mach, and as it were suffocate the pure spirits, drying up and con- 
 suming the radical moisture. Therefore the night does foul the 
 mouth more than the day, furring it with a gross slimy matter, espe- 
 cially those that have foul stomachs, and are in years, which ought to 
 be well cleansed every morning. 
 
 “ Whatsoever are the disorders in the body, the mouth does al- 
 ways partake of them ; besides the evils that the variety of food, and 
 the improper mixtures of flesh and fish, and many other things, which 
 do foul and hurt both the teeth and gums. When any person is dis- 
 ordered with inward diseases, does not the mouth quickly complain 
 of the evils thereof? This very few consider in time. 
 
 “ It is to be noted, that most people do attribute the diseases of the 
 teeth to colds, and rheums, and other outward accidents. It is true, 
 outward accidents will further this disease, but then there must be 
 matter beforehand, otherwise outward colds can have no power to 
 cause this pain. The same is to be understood in all stoppages of 
 the breast, and other obstructions, as coughs, and the like. For, if 
 any part be obstructed, or there be matter for distemper, then, on 
 every small occasion of outward colds, or like accidents, nature com- 
 plains. If your teeth and gums be sound, and free from this matter, 
 take what colds you will, and your teeth will never complain, as daily 
 experience doth show. For all outward colds, and other accidents 
 of the like nature, have no power to seize any part of the body, ex- 
 cept first there be some inward defect or infirmity : suppose the 
 teeth be defective, then the disease falls on that part ; or if it be the 
 head, eyes, breast, back, or any other part or member of the body 
 that is obstructed, the evil is felt in that part. Therefore if the mouth 
 be kept clean by continual washings, it will prevent all matter which 
 may cause putrefaction : and then colds, and the like accidents, will 
 have no power to seize this part, or cause this terrible pain. Even 
 so it is in all other parts of the body. If temperance and sobriety 
 be observed in meats, drinks, and exercises, with other circumstances 
 belonging to health, then stoppages, coughs, colds, and other obstruc- 
 tions, would not be so frequent on everv small occasion ; for tempe- 
 rance has an inward power and operation, and does as it were cut 
 off diseases in the very bud, preventing the generation of matter 
 whence distempers do proceed, increasing the radical moisture, and 
 making the spirits lively, brisk, and powerful, able to withstand all 
 outward colds, and other casualties of the like nature. 
 
 “ There are many various things, of divers natures, prescribed by 
 
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 physicians and others, as washes to preserve the teeth and gums ; 
 but most of them, if not all, to little or no purpose, as daily expe- 
 rience teaches: for all high, sharp salts, and things of a sour or keen 
 nature, do rather cause the teeth to perish, than the contrary ; as do 
 all hot spirits, be they what they will : many have destroyed their 
 teeth by the frequent use of such things, and it hath hardly ever been 
 known that such things have ever cured or prevented the aching 
 pains of the teeth, but water only. Many examples I could mention, 
 if it were convenient. Physicians and others do daily prescribe 
 such things for the cure and prevention of this disease of the teeth, 
 which most of them do know by experience can do no good, but 
 rather the contrary : but when people come to them, they must give 
 them something for their money ; for interest and ignorance have 
 more affinity with this sort of people than virtue, and the true know- 
 ledge of the nature of things. Most certain it is, that the shepherd 
 and husbandman do know far better how to prepare the meat for 
 their cattle, and also how to preserve them from disorders, than many 
 physicians do their food or physic : and a man shall understand more 
 by conversing with this sort of people, than with the learned : for 
 the shepherd and husbandman understand something of nature ; but 
 most of the learned are departed from the simple ways of God in 
 nature, putting out their own eyes, and then boasting what wonders 
 they can see with other men’s: they have invented many words to 
 hide the truth from the unlearned, that they may get the greater es- 
 teem. This hath chiefly been done to advance pride and interest ; 
 so that the divine eye is departed from many of them, who never 
 make any inspection into the true nature of things, being contented 
 to take other men’s words, let it be right or wrong, as long as they 
 have authority and law on their sides, wherefore should they trouble 
 their weak heads ? 
 
 “ The best and most sure way to prevent the diseases and pains 
 in the teeth and gums, is every morning to wash your mouth with at 
 the least ten or twelve mouthfuls of pure water, cold from the spring 
 or river, and so again after dinner and supper, swallowing down a 
 mouthful of water after each washing ; for there is no sort of liquor 
 in the world so pure and clean as water ; and nothing doth cleanse 
 and free the teeth and gums from that foul matter which does pro- 
 ceed from the breathings and purgings of the stomach, and from the 
 various sorts of food, so well as water ; the use of other washes is to 
 little or no purpose ; but whosoever do constantly wash their mouths 
 with water, as is before mentioned, shall find an essential remedy. — 
 All hard rubbing and picking of the teeth ought by any means to be 
 avoided, for that is injurious to them. Also whensoever you find 
 your mouth foul, or subject to be slimy, as sometimes it will more than 
 at others, according to the good or evil state of the stomach, though 
 it be not after eating ; at all such times you ought to wash your 
 mouth. This rule all mothers and nurses ought to observe, washing 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 93 
 
 the mouths of their children two or three times a day ; and also to 
 cause their chi'dren to swallow down a little water, which will be 
 very refreshing to their stomachs. For milk does naturally foul and 
 fur the mouth and teeth, and if they be not kept clean by continual 
 washing, it causes the breeding of children’s teeth to be the more 
 painful to them. 
 
 “ Few there be that understand or consider the excellent virtues 
 of water, it being an element of a mild and cleansing nature and ope- 
 ration, friendly unto all things, and of universal use : but because it 
 is so common, and so easily procured, I am afraid that many people 
 will be like Naaman the Syrian, when the prophet Elisha advised 
 him to wash seven times in the river of Jordan to cure his leprosy ; 
 it being the ignorance and folly of most people, to admire those 
 things they do not know, and, on the other side, to despise and tram- 
 ple under foot those things and mysteries they do know ; which the 
 learned in all ages have taken notice of : for, should some people 
 know what apothecaries and others give them, they would despise 
 the physic, and have but little respect for their doctor. 
 
 “ All housewives do know, that no sort of liquor, be it what it will, 
 will cleanse and sweeten their vessels, but only v/ater; all other 
 liquors leaving a sour stinking quality behind them, which will quickly 
 cause putrefaction : but water in its own nature is clean and pure, 
 not only for all uses in housewifery, and the preservation of health ; 
 but the saints and holy men of God have highly esteemed this ele- 
 ment, by using it in the exterior acts of divine worship, as having a 
 simile with the Eternal water of life, that does purify and cleanse the 
 soul from sin. (Try on’s Way to Health, pp. 17 — 21.) 
 
 (49) Reveals the glories of her kindred sky . 
 
 “ If the great distinctive attribute of man be the faculty of speech, 
 that speech can never be complete or perfect, without two arches of 
 teeth to modulate the sound, and give proper utterance to the words. 
 Indeed it is obvious to every one, that when the teeth are lost, the 
 speech becomes imperfect, and often scarcely intelligible. 
 
 *• This circumstance makes them valuable beyond measure to a 
 public speaker, and their preservation ought to meet due attention 
 from those who wish to shine, either in the senate, at the bar, or in the 
 pulpit. 
 
 “ Without these instruments of utterance, the graces of eloquence 
 are lost, and the power of impressing the mind and convincing the 
 understanding, if not destroyed, is considerably diminished.” (L. S. 
 Parmhfs Lectures, p. 42.) 
 
 “ Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of 
 life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly ; and he that 
 for a short gratification brings weakness and diseases upon himself* 
 
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 and for the pleasure of a few years, condemns the maturer and more 
 experienced part of his life to the chamber and the couch, may be 
 justly reproached, not only as a spendthrift of his own happiness, but 
 a3 a robber of the public, — as a wretch that has voluntarily disquali- 
 fied himself for the business of his station, and refused that part 
 which Providence assigns him in the general task of human nature.” 
 (Dr. Johnson.) 
 
 “ Health, I conceive, is often maintained at the expense of that 
 vital power, which, in a more natural state, would have carried us to 
 age.” ( Tkackrah .) 
 
 “ The old man who has preserved his teeth in good condition, is 
 much less frail than be who has lost them early by inattention. The 
 youth who is well endowed by nature in this particular, promises to 
 lead a life more vigorous, than he whose teeth have prematurely de- 
 cayed.” ( Gerhaux , p. 20.) 
 
 On the subject of a happy old age, produced by sobriety, we find 
 the following account in the writings of Addison. {Spectator , Vol. 
 III. No. 195.) 
 
 “ The most remarkable instance of the efficacy of temperance, 
 towards the procuring long life, is what we meet with in a little book 
 published by Lewis Cornaro the Venetian ; which I the rather men- 
 tion, because it is of undoubted credit, as the late Venetian ambas- 
 sador who was of the same family, attested more than once in con- 
 versation, when he was in England. Cornaro, who was the author of 
 the little treatise 1 am mentioning, was of an infirm constitution till 
 about forty, when, by obstinately persisting in an exact course of 
 temperance, he recovered a perfect state of health ; insomuch that 
 at four score he published a book which has been translated into En- 
 glish under the title of “ Sure and Certain Methods of obtaining a 
 Long and Healthy Life.” He lived to give a third and fourth edi- 
 tion of it ; and after having passed his hundredth year, died without 
 pain or agony, and like one who falls asleep. The treatise I men- 
 tion has been taken notice of by several eminent authors, and is writ- 
 ten with such a spirit of cheerfulness, religion, and good sense, as are 
 the natural accompaniments of temperance and sobriety. The mix- 
 ture of the old man in it, is rather a recommendation than a discredit 
 to it.” 
 
 The work alluded to by Mr. Addison has been recently repub- 
 lished in this city by Mr. Graham, lecturer on health and longevity, 
 who has prefixed to the neat little volume the following remarks : — 
 
 “ After an experiment of, at least, six thousand years, man knows 
 about as little how to live, as he did in the infant period of the world. 
 Indeed, there is no subject that demands the exercise of human in- 
 tellect, which is more intricate and difficult to understand, than is the 
 science of human life. And yet the popular opinion is, that every 
 man can ascertain by his own experience what is best for him, and 
 how he ought to live : and that no general rule can be laid down, 
 
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 which will be equally suitable to all mankind, because there are dif- 
 ferences of constitution, and temperament , and predisposition , &c, 
 ‘ Some,’ it is said, ‘ with great regularity of habits, and temperance 
 in diet, enjoy good health and live to great age, while others, pursu- 
 ing the same course, are always sickly, and die young; and on the 
 other hand, some, with great irregularity and intemperance, enjoy 
 health and live to become very old. Therefore, what is best for one 
 man may not be for another, and, consequently, it would be impossi- 
 ble to prescribe any mode of living which would be suitable to all 
 constitutions and circumstances.” 
 
 “ This reasoning certainly has the aspect of plausibility, to such as 
 take but a very hasty and superficial view of the subject. But surely? 
 if we will honestly investigate this matter with a candid and truly 
 inquiring mind, we shall see things very differently, and be led to very 
 different conclusions. We shall then find the true statements to be 
 these : — 
 
 “ All men, with a good natural constitution, who are regular in 
 their habits and temperate in their diet, and in other respects correct, 
 as a general rule, enjoy health, and live to old age ; but some men 
 with a feeble constitution and diseased body, though regular and 
 careful in their habits, and temperate, but not always judicious in 
 their diet, are delicate and sickly all their lives and die early, or be- 
 fore they attain to old age; and would have suffered much more and 
 died much sooner, had they been irregular and intemperate : — while 
 on the other hand, some men, with a remarkably good and vigorous 
 constitution, and many of whose habtis are conducive to health and 
 longevity, enjoy a considerable degree of health and attain to great 
 age, in spite of their irregularities and intemperance: nevertheless, 
 most persons who are irregular and intemperate became diseased 
 early, and die before they reach old age, or even the meridian of 
 life.” ( Introduction to Cornaro by Sylvester Graham , New York, 1833, 
 178 pages 18mo.) 
 
 The following passages are taken from Cornaro’s work. 
 
 “ Oh holy and truly happy regularity ! How holy and happy should 
 men in fact, deem thee, since the opposite habit is the cause of such 
 guilt and misery ! so that men should know thee by thy voice alone, and 
 thy lovely name ; for, what a glorious name, what a noble thing, is 
 an orderly and sober life.” 
 
 “ I will give an account of my recreations and the relish which I 
 find at this stage of life, in order to convince the public that the state 
 I have now attained is by no means death, but real life. They will 
 see, not without the greatest astonishment, the good state of health 
 and spirits I enjoy ; how 1 mount my horse without any assistance or 
 advantage of situation ; and how I not only ascend a single flight of 
 stairs, but climb up a hill from bottom to top, afoot, and with the 
 greatest ease and unconcern; then how gay, pleasant, and good hu- 
 mored I am : how free from every perturbation of mind ; and every 
 
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 disagreeable thought ; in lieu of which, joy and peace have so firmly 
 their residence in my bosom, as never to depart from it. I contrive 
 to spend every hour of life with the greatest delight and pleasure, 
 having frequent opportunities of conversing with many honorable 
 gentlemen ; then 1 betake myself to reading some good book, and 
 when I have read so much as I like, I write ; endeavoring in this as 
 in every thing else, to be of service to others to the utmost of my 
 power. 
 
 “ Besides this, I have my several gardens supplied with running 
 water, and in which I always find something to do that amuses me. 
 
 “Nor are my recreations rendered less agreeable and entertaining 
 by my not seeing well, and not hearing readily every thing that is 
 said to me ; or by any other of mv faculties not being perfect, for 
 they are all, tlianx God, in the highest perfection, particularly my 
 palate, which now relishes better the simple fare I eat, wherever I 
 happen to be, than it formerly did the most delicate dishes, when I 
 led an irregular life. 
 
 “And if it be lawful to compare little matters, and such as are es- 
 teemed trifling, to affairs of importance, 1 will farther venture to say, 
 that such are the effects of this sober life, that at my present age of 
 eighty-three, I have been able to write a very entertaining comedy, 
 abounding with innocent mirth and pleasant jests. 
 
 “ Such are some of the recreations of my old age.” 
 
 To this latter passage Mr. Graham appends the following note : — 
 
 “ Gentle reader 1 art thou still in early life, and dost thou sometimes 
 contemplate old age as necessarily a state of feebleness, and decrepi- 
 tude, and gloom 1 Or, art thou already what the young call old, 
 and dost thou feel thyself entering into the dreary winter of thy 
 bodily existence ? Seest thou nothing but weakness, and infirmities, 
 and the last waning of life’s flickering light, in the prospect before 
 thee ? Seems thy unjovous way downward into the vale of death 
 covered with a mist whose density increases as thou descendest, 
 wrapping thee in deeper and yet deeper gloom, and blearing thy 
 vision, and taking away thy other senses by slow, but yet too pain- 
 fully perceptible degrees ; and shutting thee up to the solitary con- 
 sciousness of exhausted power and approaching death ? And with 
 such prospect before thee, and in such a state, art thou incredulous 
 when the venerable Cornaro tells of the comforts and the cheerfulness 
 of his green old age ? Does it seem to thee impossible that at the 
 age of ninety or a hundred years, a man should have that health, 
 and vigor, and vivacity, and cheerfulness, and increased enjoyment, 
 of which Cornaro speaks ? 
 
 “Doubt not, beloved reader! but be assured, if thou wilt live the 
 life of the righteous, thou shalt reap this reward. Wrong not thy 
 body nor thy soul ! Obey the laws of life ! Live as thou shouidst, 
 in harmony with the universal and inflexible government of God, 
 established constitutionally in the great system of nature’s law's, and 
 
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 thou shalt experience the health, the serenity, the peace, the cheer- 
 fulness, the happiness, and even the raptures of Cornaro ! And when 
 thy life is spent, and thou art called to make thy exit from this chang- 
 ing scene, thou shalt walk erect in patriarchal manliness, like Moses, 
 to the mountain top, with vision unimpaired, and scarce diminished 
 strength, and there, in the glorious prospect of a better world, thy 
 God himself will spread thy death- bed for thee, and take thee to 
 himself without a pain. !” 
 
 I cannot deny myself the pleasure of making one more extract 
 from Cornaro, touching the influence of sobriety on the religious 
 hopes of man. 
 
 “ I must farther add,” says this good old man, “ though it may 
 appear impossible to some, that, at this age, I enjoy at once two 
 lives : one terrestrial, which I possess in fact ; the other celestial, 
 which I possess in thought : and this thought is equal to actual en- 
 joyment, when founded upon things we are sure to attain, as I am 
 sure to attain that celestial life, through the infinite goodness and 
 mercy of God. Thus, I enjoy this terrestrial life, in consequence of 
 my sobriety and temperance, virtues so agreeable to the Deity ; and 
 1 enjoy by the grace of the same divine Majesty, the celestial, which 
 He makes me anticipate in thought : — a thought so lively, as to fix 
 me entirely on this object, the enjoyment of which I hold and affirm 
 to be the utmost certainty. And I hold that dying in the manner I 
 expect is not really death, but a passage of the soul from this earthly 
 life to a celestial, immortal, and infinitely perfect existence. Neither 
 can it be otherwise : — and this thought is so superlatively sublime, that 
 it can no longer stoop to low and wordly objects, such as the death 
 of this body, being entirely taken up with the happiness of living a 
 celestial and divine life ; whence it is that I enjoy two lives. Nor 
 can the termination of so high a gratification as I enjoy in this life, 
 give me any concern : it rather affords me infinite pleasure, as it 
 will be only to make room for another glorious and immortal life.” 
 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 Having appended to the poem such notes as my leisure for several 
 months past has enabled me to select, I feel it necessary to remark, 
 that although on many of the subjects discussed, the notes are not so 
 full nor so illustrative as I could have wished, yet they are the best 
 that my limited opportunity would permit me to select. A very la- 
 borious profession, in connexion with other duties, has completely 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
 engrossed that time which I would have gladly devoted to this ob- 
 ject, and at some future day I hope to be enabled to do greater jus- 
 tice to a subject that demands the attentive consideration of every 
 individual. The most useful advice with which I can conclude these 
 remarks is, to urge on every individual the necessity of aiming at 
 the prevention of disease altogether, which can in a great measure 
 be effected without engrossing more time than its importance merits. 
 
 This is a subject which demands the attention of parents, and 
 those who are entrusted with the care of children. It should be the 
 first object of every person so situated, to habituate children to clean 
 their teeth, at least twice a day, and when this practice has been 
 once adopted, it will be continued as a matter of course. Besides 
 this, from the age of six to twelve years in particular, a dentist 
 should be consulted three or four times a year, and at a later period, 
 once or twice for the purpose of examining the teeth, and counter- 
 acting, by the timely removal of such causes as may produce dis- 
 ease, any mischief which is likely to take place. 
 
 In London and Paris, and I believe in all the larger cities of Eu- 
 rope, the principal academies and boarding schools are regularly 
 attended by dentists, for the purpose of having the children’s teeth 
 examined, and of performing such operations as they may require 
 when necessary, I should be glad to see this plan more universally 
 adopted in our large cities, for I am convinced the advantages arising 
 from it are incalculable ; for if proper care and attention be not paid 
 during the time teeth are shedding, a countenance, however naturally 
 beautiful, may, in consequence, be totally disfigured ; and it fre- 
 quently happens, that an unpleasing countenance, although united to 
 an amiable mind, produces a dislike that is not easily overcome. — 
 “ It is, therefore, (says Mr. Murphy), a duty incumbent on parents, 
 and those who have the care and education of youth, while they do 
 justice to their minds, not to overlook their personal advantages.” 
 
 “ No face, however pleasing and prepossessing, can ever be com- 
 plete in its attraction, where the mouth is disfigured. However wor- 
 thy of admiration by natural symmetry, a still and silent counte- 
 nance may be, we at once lose the grateful impression when a dis- 
 closure of bad teeth is made by the influence of any excitement. — 
 The circumstance either attaches disgrace to the individual, for pre- 
 sent want of cleanliness, or to its parents or nurse, for past neglect. 
 Even the laugh, the test of good humor and openness, which invites 
 to cordiality and confidence, fails to produce a reciprocal effect when 
 we are disgusted by a foul mouth.” ( L . & Parmh/s Lectures , p. 44.) 
 
 I have thus adduced several arguments, in order to impress upon 
 the minds of my readers the importance of my subject, as far as it 
 relates to an early and attentive care in the management of the teeth. 
 No fact that I have brought forward can be considered in the slight- 
 est degree exaggerated, for it will be supported by the feelings of 
 every individual that reflects upon it. If, from what has been said, 
 
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 99 
 
 the subject shall meet due weight, I shall have performed a duty 
 highly pleasing to myself, from a consciousness of having pointed 
 out the right way, which, if practised, will not only add to happiness 
 and comfort, by a freedom from pain and other inconveniences, but 
 also to the improvement of personal appearance at every age of 
 life. 
 
 The commencement of disease is too generally looked upon as a 
 matter of little importance ; and thus, but few persons take any no- 
 tice of its progress, until the agonizing pain of tooth-ache forces it 
 upon their consideration ; and when the disease has been permitted 
 to extend itself so far, it seldom happens that it can be effectually 
 remedied by any other means than extraction ; but as it is not al- 
 ways in the power of every individual to have recourse to a dentist 
 on the hrst attack of tooth- ache, the patient may possibly obtain a 
 temporary relief by applying to the diseased tooth a strong solution 
 of camphor in spirits of wine, which if it prove not altogether suc- 
 cessful, has at least the advantage of safety, and this is much more 
 than can be said of most of the celebrated remedies. Every ex- 
 treme of heat and cold should be avoided, as both are equally liable 
 to cause pain in the teeth. Attention to cleanliness of the teeth in 
 early life cannot sufficiently be insisted on, since it is evident that 
 most of their diseases arise from extraneous matter being suffered 
 to remain upon them ; and no time, therefore, should be lost, in re- 
 moving whatever has accumulated as soon as it is discovered. 
 
 The brush and powders, which are the common means had re- 
 course to, will never more than half perform this office, as they act 
 only on the outer parts, and thus leave the interstices entirely un- 
 touched. Some tinctures may for a time give a whiteness to the 
 enamel, but they are certain ultimately to injure its texture, and ren- 
 der it more liable to decay. In short, it may be concluded, that in 
 proportion as any dentifrice, paste, or lotion, whitens the enamel, its 
 structure is injured or destroyed. The only means necessary to pre- 
 serve its color is to remove whatever may collect around the teeth, 
 and thus allow them to possess their natural whiteness and polish. — 
 The best method to effect this is with a brush and water ; should 
 this prove insufficient, powders composed of Armenian bole, pre- 
 pared chalk, Peruvian bark, or charcoal, may be used with very 
 great advantage. But, even when the teeth have been thus cleaned, 
 the insterstices are not cleared. This may be effected by passing 
 between the teeth a thread of waxed silk, thereby to dislodge what- 
 ever may have collected on their sides. 
 
 The means which have been pointed out for the prevention of 
 disease will be found of much greater advantage to society at large 
 than all that has been said respecting the treatment. And 1 cannot 
 too strongly urge the importance of this particular object. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
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LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 
 
 The republication of the foregoing Poem and Notes, as a part of se- 
 veral successive numbers of the American Journal of Dental Science, 
 for the years 1840-41, was sustained by the following catalogue of sub- 
 scribers : — 
 
 Ayers Daniel, Amsterdam, Mont. 
 
 County, N. Y. 1 
 
 Allen Richard L., Sara. Springs, 1 
 Alcock James, N. Y. 2 
 
 Austin George, Baltimore, 1 
 
 Austin Nathan ’1, Harrisonburg, Ya. 2 
 Ash Claudius, London, 2 
 
 Azling Isaac, LI D., Boston, 1 
 
 Auten F. P., Lambertville, N. J. 1 
 
 Atkinson John, Leeds, Eng. 1 
 
 Arthur Robert, Baltimore, 1 
 
 Andrews E. H., Charlotte C. H., N. 
 
 Carolina, X 
 
 Ash G. E., London, 1 
 
 Arnold Wm., M. D., N. York, 1 
 
 Avery Samuel, N. Orleans, 1 
 
 Brewster, C. S. Paris, France, 1 
 
 Burdell John, N. Y. 20 
 
 Bridges M. K. Brooklyn, 20 
 
 Baker Elisha, N. Y. 20 
 
 Brown A. W.. N. Y. 20 
 
 Bryan Elijah, N.Y, 1 
 
 Blake Elihu, N. Y. 1 
 
 Bancroft T. L., Granville, Ohio, 1 
 
 Brown B. B. St. Louis, Mo. 2 
 
 Backus G. Nashville, Tenn. 1 
 
 Briscoe A. W., Baltimore, 1 
 
 Barstow Wm. H., M. D., George- 
 town, Ky. 1 
 
 Buchan David L. Hempstead, Md. 1 
 Bidgood Richd. W, Smith, Va. 1 
 
 Badger Felix H. Decatur, Ga. 1 
 
 Brown Solyman, N. Y. 5 
 
 Becht A. J. Hague, Netherlands, 1 
 
 Bareud J . Dent , George-st., Man- 
 chester, 1 
 
 Barend Sam’l. Liverpool, Eng. 1 
 
 Bradford D. Augusta, Ky. 1 
 
 Bell Thomas, London, 1 
 
 Ballanger D. W. Montgomery, Ala. 2 
 Brockway Josephus, Troy, 2 
 
 BiandingS., M. D., Columbia, S. C. 1 
 Baldwin Janies Oscar, Newark, N. J. 1 
 Brown Chas. D., Philadelphia, 1 
 
 Burdell Harvey, M. D., N. York, 2 
 
 Bliss S., M. D., Syracuse, N. York, 1 
 Buck J. B., N. York, 1 
 
 Briscoe Jas H, Philadelphia, 1 
 
 Boyken F M, Smithfield Va 1 
 
 Burr Hudson, Philadelphia, 1 
 
 Ballard Geo. W, Madison, Morgan 
 Co, Georgia, 1 
 
 Bull Abel, M D, Boston, 1 
 
 Bemis S A, Boston, N 1 
 
 Budd John D, Mount Holly, N J, 1 
 
 Burr Wm H, Mount Holly, N J, 1 
 
 Cook Doctor, Brooklyn, 1 
 
 Clute Nicholas, Louisville, Ky. 2 
 
 Chandler James, Schenec. N.Y. 1 
 
 Cobb B. C., M. D., Clarkstore, Mar- 
 tins Co., N. C. 1 
 
 Cox A. L., M. D., New York, 1 
 
 Cleveland, J. A., Charleston, S. C. 1 
 
 Crocker Fred’k, Sagharbour, L. I. 1 
 
 Clark, F. H., Baltimore, 1 
 
 Comegys, Baltimore, 1 
 
 Cutler Wm. Daily, Baltimore, 1 
 
 Cutler Sam’i Jackson, Baltimore, 1 
 
 Coleman, R. K. Baltimore, 1 
 
 Cauling & Edmunds, Baltimore, 1 
 
 Cobb Anson, Brooklyn, 1 
 
 Clark C., Jacksonville, III. 1 
 
 Clark James, Springfield, 111. 1 
 
 Cassill J. F., Upper Marion, Col. Mo. 1 
 Chewning F. B., Rich. Va. 2 
 
 Clark James, Lebanon, O. 1 
 
 Coppel Chas. Preston, Eng. 1 
 
 Crane O. P. Geneva, N. Y. 1 
 
 Chevalier, J. D. N. Y. 1 
 
 Crofoot E., E. Middletown Con. 1 
 
 Crofoot L L, Middletown, Conn, 1 
 
 Candee J G, Troy, N York, 1 
 
 Clark A, Penyan, NY, 1 
 
 Cameron James, Philadelphia, 1 
 
 Copeland W S, M D, Rich Square, 
 Virginia, 1 
 
 Carter J H, Ravena, Portage Co, O, 1 
 Caldwell Geo H, Rushville, la, 1 
 
 Camp W C, Oxford, Granville Co, 
 
 N Carolina, X 
 
102 
 
 SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. 
 
 Cuyler Vernon, M D, Hartford, Conn, 1 
 Caldwell D, Philadelphia, 1 
 
 Copelin J, New- York, 1 
 
 Crane W S, Hartford, Conn, 1 
 
 Culp Clark, Philadelphia, I 
 
 Dexter, Doctor, Brooklyn, 1 
 
 Dunning H. H. Buffalo, 1 
 
 Davis W. H. H, Cassville, Oneida 
 Co., New York. 1 
 
 Duncan Archibald, N. Y, 1 
 
 Davesson Frederick A., M, D. Hills- 
 boro, Loudon Co. Va. 1 
 
 Dunlap Joseph, Chilicothe, O. 1 
 
 Dunbar J. R. H., M. D., Balt. 1 
 
 Desha John R. : M. D., Little Rock, 
 Arkansas, 1 
 
 De Loude Le Chas. Wolverhampton, 
 England, 1 
 
 Dodge J Smith, New-York, 1 
 
 Dewar Henry, Edinburgh, Scot, 2 
 
 Dodge Andrew, Matanzas, Cuba, 1 
 
 Dixon Rufus E, M D, Boston, 1 
 
 Doolittle A B, Plymouth, Conn, 1 
 
 Esterly D., M. D., Troy, N. Y. 1 
 
 Early , Doctor, Lynchburg, Va. 2 
 
 Elmendorf Joseph, Pennyan, N. Y. 1 
 
 Ellery E. Baltimore, 1 
 
 Evans J. N., M. D., Cynthiana, Ky. 1 
 
 Elliott Joseph D., Leicester, Mass. 1 
 
 Ensor — Dentist., Liverpool, 1 
 
 Ellis Calvin, M D, Boston, 1 
 
 Evans G W, Cincinnatti, 1 
 
 Epps W J, M D, Langhorne’s P O, 
 Virginia, I 
 
 Evans Thos W, Philadelphia, 1 
 
 Easton Win T, Providence, R I, 1 
 
 Fenn Horatio N., M. D., Rochester, 2 
 
 Foster J. H., M. D., New-York, 2 
 
 Flagg Josiah F M., M. D., Boston, 1 
 
 Frazer Doctor, Cynthiana, Harrison 
 Co, Ky. 1 
 
 Follen John H, North. C. H., Va, 1 
 
 Frink J. N., Portland, N. H. 1 
 
 Foote George, Vernon, N. Y. 1 
 
 Faulkner &. Pierpont, Man. England, 1 
 Fundenberg G. B, Dentist, Pitts- 
 burgh, Pa. 1 
 
 Franklin B W, Fairfield, Herkimer 
 Co, New-York, 1 
 
 Fraetas J A, New-York, 20 
 
 Fay Timothy, Baton Rouge, La, 1 
 
 Fay Solomon, Chester Factories, 
 
 Mass, 1 
 
 Ferguson Jas II, Northumberland C 
 House, Va. 1 
 
 Fouche W. W. Philadelphia, 1 
 
 Falconer John, New- York, X 
 
 Gilliland, Doctor, Brooklyn, 1 
 
 Gaines Rich. W., Charlotte C. H., 
 Virginia, 1 
 
 Garrison, Doctor, Brooklyn, 1 
 
 Gallop L. F., Newport, R. I. 1 
 
 Gardette E. B., Philadelphia, 2 
 
 Green L.T., Nashville, Tenn. 1 
 
 Goddard W. H., Louisville, Ky. 1 
 Gill Bryson, Baltimore, 1 
 
 Gunnell Jas. S., M. D., Washington, 1 
 Griffith S. & E., Louisville, Ky. 1 
 Geer — Rev. John A., Maryland, 1 
 Grand homme M. P., Paris, France, 1 
 Gidney Eleazar, Man., England, 1 
 Greenwood Isaac J, New-York, 40 
 Grant C W, Newburg, New-York, 1 
 Greenleaf Chas, Hartford, Conn, 1 
 Ganson Holton, Batavia, New-York, 1 
 Gaines B B, Cassville, Georgia, 1 
 Githens John H, Philadelphia, 1 
 
 Gunn , Nashville, Tennessee, 1 
 
 Grimes Doctor, Greenborough, Ga. 1 
 Herd, Doctor, Brooklyn, 1 
 
 Harris Chapin A., M. D., Balt. 40 
 Hawes, Arnold, Pawtucket, R. I. 1 
 Hulihen J. P., Wheeling, Va. 1 
 
 Hawes & Allen, New-York, 1 
 
 Houston P., N. Y. and Charleston, l 
 Hartness Thos. L., New-York, 1 
 
 Hewlet .1. W., Greensbo, N. C. 1 
 Holmes Oliver, Baltimore, 1 
 
 Howard F., Washington City, 1 
 
 Harris John, M. D. Georgetown, Ky. 2 
 Hall, A. S., M. D., Scotland Neck, 
 
 N. Carolina, 1 
 
 Hubberd, E. R., Newbern, N. C. 1 
 Harper Sam’l, Kent Island, Md. 1 
 Hand G. C., Easton, Pa. 1 
 
 Humphreys Geo. W. Winchester, 
 
 Virginia, 1 
 
 Hodgson Doctor, Whiteplains, N. Y. 1 
 Harrison R. H., M. D., Huntsville, 
 Alabama, 1 
 
 Helsby , Manchester, England, 1 
 
 Hudson Kdvvard, Philadelphia, 1 
 Hamlin T B, Wythvelle, Virginia, 1 
 Hallified Doctor, Petersburg, Va, 1 
 
 Hought Chas. J, Philadelphia, 1 
 
 Hughes H W, Westminster, Md, 1 
 Hill A, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1 
 
 Hoit Emmett M, Stanwich, Conn, 1 
 
 Halleyman W F, Maytinton, SC, 1 
 Imrie — Dentist, Man. England, 1 
 Ingraham Thomas, Philadelphia, 1 
 Johnson Wm,, Hagerston, Md. 2 
 JenksW. D., Frederickstown, Md. 2 
 J’ollen John N., York Co. H. Va. 1 
 
SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. 
 
 103 
 
 King Doctor, Brooklyn, 1 
 
 Kelley Elbridge G., Newburyport, 
 
 Mass. 2 
 
 Knower Daniel, N. Y. 1 
 
 Keen Benjamin F., Hills, Ga. 1 
 
 Knapp, F. H. Baltimore, 1 
 
 Kearsing George, New-York, 20 
 Kingsbury C A, Philadelphia, 1 
 
 Kimball Horace, New-York, 1 
 
 Keemy B M, Hudson New-York, 1 
 
 Koecker Leonard, M D, London, 2 
 
 Keene, Doct. Newtown, Scott Co, 
 
 Kentucky, 1 
 
 Latham Hiram, Brooklyn, 1 
 
 Lum John, Patterson, N. J. 1 
 
 Levett M., New^York, I 
 
 Lovejoy John, New York 1 
 
 Laroque Edward. Baltimore, 1 
 
 Lapham B. B., Baltimore, 1 
 
 Lawrence J., M. D., Tar boro, N. C. 1 
 
 Leadbetter John, Alexan. D. C. 1 
 
 Lyon S. K., N. Orleans, 4 
 
 Lloyd T. B., Manchester, Eng. 1 
 
 Lloyd Rich., Liv. Eng. 1 
 
 Laird O. P., Columbus, Ga. 1 
 
 Lamphire Wm., Alexan. D. C. 1 
 
 Lawrence S W, Philadelphia, 1 
 
 Lee Joseph, M D, Camden, SC, 1 
 
 Lawrence E B, Crawfordville, Ga, 1 
 
 Loomis J C, Carlisle, Pa, 1 
 
 Latimer James, Madison, Morgan 
 
 Co, Georgia, 1 
 
 Lethbridge Sam’l, Richmond, Va, 1 
 
 Marvin, Doctor Brooklyn, 1 
 
 Miller Seth P.„ Worcester, Mass. 1 
 
 Maynard E. — M. D. Washington 
 
 City 20 
 
 Martin Chas. F., Norfork, Va. 1 
 
 M’Kinney W.N„Fredricksburg, Va.20 
 Milhau John, New York, 1 
 
 Munson W. G. New Haven, 1 
 
 Manly Horace, Canada. N. Y. 1 
 
 Macall Leonard, M. D. Balt. 1 
 
 Miller J. H. Professor, &c. Baltimore 1 
 
 Merryman Geo. Baltimore, 1 
 
 Manning M. E., Tarborough, N. C. 2 
 
 M’Cabe James D., Richmond, Va. 2 
 
 McDonald G., M. D. Macon, Ga. 2 
 
 Macey Wm. M., M. D. White Sulphur 
 Scott C. Ky. 1 
 
 McAllister J. M. Albany, 1 
 
 McNaughton M. A. Albany, J 
 
 Mason, Doctor, Brooklyn, 1 
 
 Merritt C., Bridgeport, Con. 1 
 
 Martin J, Portsmouth, England, 1 
 
 Mac Pherson James, Glasgow, Scot. 1 
 
 Middleton Ellis, Philadelphia, 1 
 
 Me Ilhinney Joseph E, Philadelphia, 1 
 Matson Alpheus, Auburn, New-York, 1 
 
 MGrath R, Philadelphia, 1 
 
 More Justus E, Philadelphia, 1 
 
 Middleton Wm. New-York, 1 
 
 Merritt Charles, Bridgeport, Conn, 1 
 Murrill L, Petersburg, Va, 1 
 
 Nelson Alexander, Albany, 1 
 
 Norman S. P., Little Rock Ark. 4 
 Neal D, Philadelphia, 1 
 
 Noyes Enoch, Baltimore, 20 
 
 Nasmyth Robert, Edinburgh, Scot. 1 
 Overfield M. Winchester, Va. 2 
 
 Parker, Doctor, Brooklyn, 1 
 
 Parmly L. S., N* Orleans, 20 
 
 Parmly Jahial, New- York, 20 
 
 Parmly Jahial, Savannah, 1 
 
 Parmly Geo. W T -, N, Orleans, 1 
 
 Parmly David, New York, 1 
 
 Parmly Eleazar, New York, 40 
 Parmly Ludolph, Mobile, 1 
 
 Parmly YV. Samuel, New York, 1 
 Patello Wm. H.,Charlottee C. H. Va. 1 
 Park David N., A. M. New York, 1 
 Parkhurst Wm. H., New York, 1 
 Peak J. M. Cooperstown, N. Y. 1 
 Plant Ebenezer, Willimantic, Conn, fl 
 Pritchard P. C. Jackson, N. C. 1 
 Plough A, L., New Orleans, 1 
 
 Parsons J. H. ; Liverpool, England, 1 
 Palmer W. A., Stratford, Corm. 1 
 Pleasants Charles, Painesville, O. 1 
 Perkins Jacob, Springfield, Mass, 1 
 Parker T H, Philadelphia, 1 
 
 Pent George, M D, Lawrenceville, 
 Virginia, i 
 
 Pancost S, Shelbyville, Kentucky, 1 
 Royce W. A. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 3 
 Robinson E. C. Norfolk, Va. 1 
 
 Roper Lewis, M. D. Philad. 20 
 
 Rowell Chas., N. Y. 2 
 
 Roe Early, M. D. Hillsborough, Ga. 1 
 Rodriguez B. A. M. D. Charles, S. C. 1 
 Ritter — Washington City, 1 
 
 Robinson E. M. D. Leesburg, Ky. 1 
 Reynolds Wm., M. D. Camden, S*. C. 1 
 Reinstein Frederick, Philadelphia, 1 
 Ross Samuel, New-York, 1 
 
 Root J B, Hamilton, Madison Co, 
 New-York, i 
 
 Reese F. A. M.D. Hamilton Bermuda. 1 
 Strickland Benj. Cleveland, O. 1 
 Snow R. J., Buffalo, l 
 
 Smith & Thackston, Farmville, Va. 1 
 Scott W. 11., Raleigh, N. C. 4 
 
 Shuff P. L., M. D., Leesburg, Ky. 1 
 Sneeds M. D., Frankford Ky. 1 
 
104 
 
 SUBSCRIBERS NAMES, 
 
 Stringfellow S. L. Baltimore, 20 
 
 Stratton Cha’s, Keene, N. H. 1 
 
 Sanders M., London, 1 
 
 Sanborn E., Andover, Mass. 1 
 
 Smith Wm., Liverpool, Eng. 1 
 
 Stinkley B. D. Albany, 1 
 
 Smith G. W., N. Orleans, 1 
 
 Stuart R., Knoxville, E. T. 1 
 
 Smith J. W. Amherst, Mass. 1 
 
 Searle F., Springfield , Mass. 1 
 
 Stockton S. W, Philadelphia, 20 
 
 Stowell John, Philadelphia, 1 
 
 Shepherd S M, Petersburg, Va, 1 
 
 Sherman A, Newark, New-Jersey, 2 
 
 Simpson , Manchester. England, 1 
 
 Sale T A, Williamsboro, N C, 1 
 
 Sims J M, M D, Fish Dam, Union 
 Dis, S Carolina, 1 
 
 Sanders E, 16 Argyle st, London, 1 
 
 Stevens B H, Elbndge, Onondagua 
 Co, Nevv-York, 1 
 
 Taylor, Edward, M. D. Bainbridge, 0.2 
 Tucker, E. G., M. D., New. York, 2 
 
 Trenor John, M. D., New York. 1 
 
 Trenor James, M. D ., N. Y. 1 
 
 Tdyard H. W. Baltimore 1 
 
 Taliaferro T. »S., M. D. Mays. Ay. 1 
 Thompson — Doctor, Colum. O. 1 
 
 Thorn, Doctor, Brooklyn _ 1 
 
 Tyler Nathaniel, Mass. Chicapee 
 
 Falls, 1 
 
 Taylor James, Crawfordville, /a. 1 
 
 Teter G. T., Dentist, Greenfield, 
 .Highland Co. Ohio. 1 
 
 Thorn Doctor, Edgefield C H, S C, 1 
 Thackston Doctor, Farmville, Ya, 1 
 
 Townsend Sam’l, Baltimore, 1 
 
 Truman, George, Philadelphia, 1 
 
 Fan PraagA. S., New York, 1 
 
 Fincent Ezra., New York, 1 
 
 Fan Camp, Louisville, ify. 1 
 
 Fan Paten C. H., Pittsburg, 1 
 
 Fanboskirk L. E. Si John,N. B. 1 
 
 IFillard M, T. Concord, N. H. 1 
 
 Weed J. Sachet, W. Greenfield, N.Y 1 
 White Geo. H., New York, 1 
 
 Walker & Jones, New York, 20 
 
 Wanzer iV. C., Auburn, New York, 1 
 Wayt John G- Richmond, Fa, 2 
 
 Wilson J D., Richmond, Fa. 2 
 
 Ware W, M. D., Wilmington, N.C. 1 
 Wheat J. B., New LTaven, 1 
 
 White, S D, P hiladelphia, 1 
 
 Worthington R C, M D. Murrfrees- 
 boro, N C, 1 
 
 Ward David G, Wanesboro, N C, 1 
 
 Ward W A, Petersburg, Va, 2 
 
 Willmore E, Baltimore, 1 
 
 Wheeler E D, Hillsboro, Coffee Co, 
 Tennessee, 1 
 
 Williams E C, M D, Philadelphia, 1 
 
 Wells H, Hartford, Conn, 1 
 
 Young H., Troy, New York, 1 
 
 Yard George, Philadelphia, i