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xvi editor's preface. a of the neighbouring parts, and connected organs; but, in an ^etiological point of view, the disease, whatever the symptoms, is still calculus, and the sole correct treatment consists in the removal of the lithic deposit. And thus it is with the diseases of the jaws: in their aetiology they are identic, and, on this identity, is ;— founded their only successful curative treatment treatment for which the practice of my partner, Mr. Koecker, has long been so remarkable. The same pathological principles have been applied by that gentleman to the treatment of the diseases of the teeth themselves, and with an equally favourable result. In- deed, the usual clumsy attempts at palliation, and all the various modes of temporising, acting on the general principles of surgery, he has entirely discarded, and, as might have been expected, dental surgery, instead of being the most uncertain and unsatisfactory of all the departments of the healing art, has proved, in his hands, one of the most satisfactory and unerring branches of surgery. Those principles, so happily conceived and success- fully carried out by Mr. Koecker, it will be my constant object to act up to, so that his practice may be per- petuated, even after he has withdrawn from the active discharge of the duties of his profession, which he has long so ably and honourably exercised. To the " Essay on the Diseases of the Jaws," as it