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I did not know that the teeth of this lady had been renewed
by a second germ, and had been privy to it only by accident.
This lady, still more astonished than myself that at her
age she should cut teeth, could not be convinced of the
truth of what I told her, until her eyes persuaded her.
These teeth grew up, but they were neither so long nor so
strong as the others, they became, in the mean time
fast
enough to preclude her any more from having
artificial
teeth."
Is it not astonishing that at so advanced an age, these two
large incisors had neither the same strength, nor the same
solidity which might be expected at 30 years or under ; the
nourishing liquid is not furnished so abundantly at this age
as it is in youth. Besides the sanguineous vessels obliterate
from whence comes a less abundant nutrition and a defect
on the part of nature, which appears to stop at the time
when she operates at the formation of the different parts of
which we are constituted."
Instances more recent may be mentioned. I am acquaint-
ed with an old lady resident in this city who renewed sev-
eral teeth, after she was 50 years of age. The following
instance is mentioned in one of our daily papers for August
19th, 1828. " It is stated that a Mrs. Galusha of Mon-
mouth Maine now 88 years of age, has had, within the last
three years, an entire set of new teeth, a new head of hair,
and her sight, of which she had been for some time deprived
has been so perfectly restored that she is now able to read
the finest print without the aid of spectacles." U. S. Gazette.
In some cases a bony union is said to have taken place be-
tween the jaw and the fangs of the teeth, so that the alveoli
and roots of the teeth, formed one inseparable bone : Aa
has been reported in part of Pyrries king of Epyrus, and a
son of the King of Bythinia. Courtois mentions a case of
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I did not know that the teeth of this lady had been renewed
by a second germ, and had been privy to it only by accident.
This lady, still more astonished than myself that at her
age she should cut teeth, could not be convinced of the
truth of what I told her, until her eyes persuaded her.
These teeth grew up, but they were neither so long nor so
strong as the others, they became, in the mean time
fast
enough to preclude her any more from having
artificial
teeth."
Is it not astonishing that at so advanced an age, these two
large incisors had neither the same strength, nor the same
solidity which might be expected at 30 years or under ; the
nourishing liquid is not furnished so abundantly at this age
as it is in youth. Besides the sanguineous vessels obliterate
from whence comes a less abundant nutrition and a defect
on the part of nature, which appears to stop at the time
when she operates at the formation of the different parts of
which we are constituted."
Instances more recent may be mentioned. I am acquaint-
ed with an old lady resident in this city who renewed sev-
eral teeth, after she was 50 years of age. The following
instance is mentioned in one of our daily papers for August
19th, 1828. " It is stated that a Mrs. Galusha of Mon-
mouth Maine now 88 years of age, has had, within the last
three years, an entire set of new teeth, a new head of hair,
and her sight, of which she had been for some time deprived
has been so perfectly restored that she is now able to read
the finest print without the aid of spectacles." U. S. Gazette.
In some cases a bony union is said to have taken place be-
tween the jaw and the fangs of the teeth, so that the alveoli
and roots of the teeth, formed one inseparable bone : Aa
has been reported in part of Pyrries king of Epyrus, and a
son of the King of Bythinia. Courtois mentions a case of
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