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| Year: | 1836 | |
| Last Name: | Clark | |
| First Name: | J. Patterson | |
| Title: | A practical and familiar treatise on the teeth and dentism | |
| Publisher: | A.W. Webster | |
| City: | London | |
| Country: | UK | |
| Binding Detail: | Original publisher's decorative boards, gilt tooling to boards, gilt title to front cover and spin. Gilted page edges | |
| Condition: | small tear at junction of spine and front board at the bottom, corners bumped. Mild age toning to covers. | |
| Notes: | All four plates with tissue guards present. Contemporary inscription to title page; "To [inelligible name]/ from a friend of the author/ March 1838". Publisher Webster crossed out, and replaced with "Longman & Co.", also by neat contemporary hand. Early 19th century publication on teeth, and their timeline of eruption, illustrated by multiple engraved plates, including the one shown above representing the formation and arrangement of erupting teeth in the dissected jaws of a six year old. Clark, an early 19th century British dentist with multiple publications on teeth, their pathology and care, was a proponent of the multi-factorial cause of tooth decay. He points to the crevices and indentations of the surfaces of teeth as a reservoir for acidic juices of the mouth caused by a bad diet, and food substances wedged there, as causes of caries. |
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