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PREFACE

This book is printed for the students of Northwestern Uni-
versity Dental School, and is intended to fill an immediate and
pressing want in the particular field to which it is devoted — the
technical procedures in filling teeth. It consists of a revision of
my lectures of last year on that subject. The reprinting of these
was not thought of until after the beginning of the school term
of this year and the need of it had become especially manifest.
The revision has, therefore, been done very hastily. The book
is intended to answer a temporary purpose only; or until a more
complete work can be prepared.
The absence of illustrations in the book is well supplied in
the school work by drawings, blackboard illustrations and lantern
slides. Without these much of the matter would be difficult to
understand by those unfamiliar with the methods of instruction
employed in the school ; but with them, as employed, the need
of them in the book is reduced to the minimum. The book is
intended for the students of the school, not for the general
profession.
G. V. B.