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red earth of Dourdan, &c* In one word, M. Dubois Fou-
cou is too enlightened and too impartial to not be agreeable,
and of the service which he will never cease to render to the
invention of the teeth made with porcelain, by propagating
and calling upon the attention of other dentists, he has in the
mean time, himself gathered but few fruits of the efforts of
his multiplied essays, and without doubt, very expensive
because the success, in these sorts of enterprizes, depends
very much on a variety of circumstances, which it is not in
our power to control. In making haste to publish the pro-
ceedings which he believes useful, in making them known to
all the world, in offering them generously to society, M. Du-
bois Foucou has been indifferently censured an egotist, who
has since seen in this means of general utility, wherein he
finds a source of profit which he makes use of as a means of
exclusive monopoly.
I could then, without offending his modesty affirm, that
this third section of my work is altogether new ; that fails
essentially, and we need not be much astonished, that so ne-
cessary a part of the art of the dentist has never before been
treated to the same extent by any author ; and that which
ought to inspire some confidence is, because it is not the only
proceeding, among those that I have drawn. I have had
myself much experience ; and one may perceive that I do
not omit a single detail in the process of fabrication. I enter
also, in this regard, upon the most minute explanations on
the choice of ingredients, and the manner of combining
them, &c.
The principal merit in descriptions of this kind, consists in
• Since the publication of this pamphlet, entitled, New method of ma-
king Artificial Teeth, called Composition, I begged the person in vain, to
procure me some of this earth, who furnished it for M. Dubois Foucou.
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red earth of Dourdan, &c* In one word, M. Dubois Fou-
cou is too enlightened and too impartial to not be agreeable,
and of the service which he will never cease to render to the
invention of the teeth made with porcelain, by propagating
and calling upon the attention of other dentists, he has in the
mean time, himself gathered but few fruits of the efforts of
his multiplied essays, and without doubt, very expensive
because the success, in these sorts of enterprizes, depends
very much on a variety of circumstances, which it is not in
our power to control. In making haste to publish the pro-
ceedings which he believes useful, in making them known to
all the world, in offering them generously to society, M. Du-
bois Foucou has been indifferently censured an egotist, who
has since seen in this means of general utility, wherein he
finds a source of profit which he makes use of as a means of
exclusive monopoly.
I could then, without offending his modesty affirm, that
this third section of my work is altogether new ; that fails
essentially, and we need not be much astonished, that so ne-
cessary a part of the art of the dentist has never before been
treated to the same extent by any author ; and that which
ought to inspire some confidence is, because it is not the only
proceeding, among those that I have drawn. I have had
myself much experience ; and one may perceive that I do
not omit a single detail in the process of fabrication. I enter
also, in this regard, upon the most minute explanations on
the choice of ingredients, and the manner of combining
them, &c.
The principal merit in descriptions of this kind, consists in
• Since the publication of this pamphlet, entitled, New method of ma-
king Artificial Teeth, called Composition, I begged the person in vain, to
procure me some of this earth, who furnished it for M. Dubois Foucou.
