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can be beautiful, with foul, unsound, or irregular teeth. No-
thing indeed can be more disgusting than the laugh of a per-
son who on opening the mouth, exhibits foulness and deform-
ity. It will ever be the happy lot of a beautiful or a pleas-
ing countenance, to conciliate affection, and to impress an
idea of perfection of mind on the beholder whilst on the
;
contrary, deformity and personal neglect, as surely alienate
the affections, and create however unjustly, a suspicion, at
least, of equal deformity of mind. It is most undoubtedly a
duty we owe to ourselves, and to society, to render our per-
sons as agreeable as possible.
The justness of the following assertion of Lavater will
it is evidently made from observa-
not, I think, be disputed ;
tions on the personal habits of mankind.
" As are the teeth of man, that is to say their form, posi-
tion, and cleanliness, (so far as the latter depends upon him-
self,) so is his taste."
CHAPTER III.
Having passed over the anatomy and natural history of
the teeth and their appendages, we shall proceed in the fol-
lowing chapter to consider the diseases of those organs, and
shall endeavour to point out the most obvious causes of those
diseases, and their most successful and rational modes of
cure and prevention.
DISEASES OF THE TEETH.
"Mr. Fox* mentions the following affections and diseases
of the teeth ; to wit
Fos, History of the Teetb, &c. Part II, pages 7—43, §0, 52, 54, 57, 58.
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can be beautiful, with foul, unsound, or irregular teeth. No-
thing indeed can be more disgusting than the laugh of a per-
son who on opening the mouth, exhibits foulness and deform-
ity. It will ever be the happy lot of a beautiful or a pleas-
ing countenance, to conciliate affection, and to impress an
idea of perfection of mind on the beholder whilst on the
;
contrary, deformity and personal neglect, as surely alienate
the affections, and create however unjustly, a suspicion, at
least, of equal deformity of mind. It is most undoubtedly a
duty we owe to ourselves, and to society, to render our per-
sons as agreeable as possible.
The justness of the following assertion of Lavater will
it is evidently made from observa-
not, I think, be disputed ;
tions on the personal habits of mankind.
" As are the teeth of man, that is to say their form, posi-
tion, and cleanliness, (so far as the latter depends upon him-
self,) so is his taste."
CHAPTER III.
Having passed over the anatomy and natural history of
the teeth and their appendages, we shall proceed in the fol-
lowing chapter to consider the diseases of those organs, and
shall endeavour to point out the most obvious causes of those
diseases, and their most successful and rational modes of
cure and prevention.
DISEASES OF THE TEETH.
"Mr. Fox* mentions the following affections and diseases
of the teeth ; to wit
Fos, History of the Teetb, &c. Part II, pages 7—43, §0, 52, 54, 57, 58.
