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two learned men.(c) Albinus(d) described with the utmost
exactness the production and appearance of the teeth, ex-
amined the follicles which contained them, and explained the
wrong positions to which they are subject when they make
their appearance. Haller,(e) Fauchard,(/) Jourdain,(g-)
have observed with much attention the progress of different
dentitions. Lassonne(A) and Herissant,(/) analyzed the teeth
at different epochs, to discover their constituent parts, and the
last has given a new explanation of the formation of the teeth.
Betin(;') has treated also on the structure and production of
these parts, and has observed several accidents which ac-
company their appearance ; the greater part of anatomists
and physiologists who have written since his time, have
copied him, and the celebrated Albinus, without acknow-
ledging themselves indebted to them* for their profound
knowledge.
Hunter pursued the course of these celebrated men, and
has given a work which has been translated into Latin and
French, (k) and Blake sustained at the University of Edin-
burgh a thesis upon the formation and structure of the
teeth, &c.

(c) Exposition anatomique, page 43, in 4to.
(d) Annotationum Academicarum, liber secundus, cap. 1, page 3, in 4to.
Leydae, 1755.
(e) Elementa Physiologies corporis humani, lib. xviii. p. 19, torn. vi. in
4to. Bernae, 1764.
(/) Le Chirugien Dentiste, ou traite des dents, tome 1, Paris, 1786.
(g) Essai sur la formation des dents.
(/») Mem. de 1'Acad. des Sciences, an. 1752.
(i) Idem. do. an. 1754.
(j) Traits dostcologie, tome 2, p. 238.
(Jt) Historian naturalis dentinal humanorum.
(/) Disputatio de dentium formatione etstructurain homine.etc. 1798.