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place the highest dependence. It is.very well known to his
numerous private friends, as well as to the gentlemen of the
faculty in Lincoln, and its vicinity, that the late Mr. Brom-
head of the above place never had any teeth." The bicus-
pides are often wanting as I have noticed in several instances.
—*" We read in the Ephemerides des Curieux
Duval observes
de la Nature, that a magistrate and a surgeon of Frederick-
stadt had never any teeth but the grinders, and were left en-
tirely without the incisores and canine. But what ap-
pears very surprising is the fact of several persons having
been totally destitute of teeth from their birth, several ex-
amples of which are given by authors. Boxelli reports in
his Medical Centuries that a woman had never any teeth,
who nevertheless lived to the age of sixty years, and M.
Baumes knew an hussar, who had never cut a tooth. It may
happen that some of the milk-teeth may never be cut, but
only the secondary ones as I witnessed in 1790, in the son of
a Russian nobleman. By an inverted order nature some-
times preserves the milk-teeth, and withholds the permanent
ones ; this observation is very important as it may tend to
render us cautious in having the temporary teeth extracted,
unless there be a necessity for it. In other cases nature
is more prodigal and gives much more than the ordinary
number, many such examples have been furnished by anato-
mists : these teeth which should be regarded as supernumer-
ary are not always well formed nor well arranged as I have
had occasion to observe : sometimes they are conical and are
placed either betwixt the incisores or before or behind the
spaces which separate these teeth, at other times they are
regular and properly arranged ; sometimes we find these
supernumerary teeth on the outside of the large grinders
" Dentiste Jeune9se, pages 56*-57—58—59.
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place the highest dependence. It is.very well known to his
numerous private friends, as well as to the gentlemen of the
faculty in Lincoln, and its vicinity, that the late Mr. Brom-
head of the above place never had any teeth." The bicus-
pides are often wanting as I have noticed in several instances.
—*" We read in the Ephemerides des Curieux
Duval observes
de la Nature, that a magistrate and a surgeon of Frederick-
stadt had never any teeth but the grinders, and were left en-
tirely without the incisores and canine. But what ap-
pears very surprising is the fact of several persons having
been totally destitute of teeth from their birth, several ex-
amples of which are given by authors. Boxelli reports in
his Medical Centuries that a woman had never any teeth,
who nevertheless lived to the age of sixty years, and M.
Baumes knew an hussar, who had never cut a tooth. It may
happen that some of the milk-teeth may never be cut, but
only the secondary ones as I witnessed in 1790, in the son of
a Russian nobleman. By an inverted order nature some-
times preserves the milk-teeth, and withholds the permanent
ones ; this observation is very important as it may tend to
render us cautious in having the temporary teeth extracted,
unless there be a necessity for it. In other cases nature
is more prodigal and gives much more than the ordinary
number, many such examples have been furnished by anato-
mists : these teeth which should be regarded as supernumer-
ary are not always well formed nor well arranged as I have
had occasion to observe : sometimes they are conical and are
placed either betwixt the incisores or before or behind the
spaces which separate these teeth, at other times they are
regular and properly arranged ; sometimes we find these
supernumerary teeth on the outside of the large grinders
" Dentiste Jeune9se, pages 56*-57—58—59.
