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ie> twenty-eight : viz. eight incifores or front teeth, four canini or eye teeth, and fixteen molares or grinders * of with thefe teeth we continue until between the age twenty.two and twenty-eight in males, and nineteen" and twenty-four in females : when the four dentes fa- pientae, or wifdom- teeth ufually appear; which fre quently occafion exceffive pain in their eruption, pro duced by the want, of room in the jaws, and their pref- fing upon the coronoide procefs ; this mull be borne a confiderable time, or the tooth extracted to obtain eafe. At the feventh or eight year the firft incifores begin to fhed, the canini and molares foon following them in the order they firft appeared; others much more beau tiful fucceeding them. At this period the affiftance o& art is frequently, and I may add indifpenfably neceffa ry, for if the new teeth are fufferecl to come out irre gularly, to crowd or ride upon each other, a great de a decay inevitably foon follows ; and' formity appears,, a total deftruclion- of the teeth is the confequence. Therefore great attention fhould be paid to children when fhedding their teeth, for if the new teeth are bad ly arranged, mifplaced, or crowded, and permitted to remain fo,. they will affuredly injure each other, and produce the effecls before mentioned : to obviate fuch unpleafant confequencesj parents, guardians, govern- efses and nurfes, &c. are refpectfully invited careful ly to examine their children' or wards teeth at the time of fhedding ; and when the teeth appear to be coming out acrofs the gum, or any way irregular, immediate ly to call for the affiftance of a fkilful operator, and ne ver to fuffer compajfwn (in fuch cafes) to preponderate the fcale againft that jujlice which is due from parentsr &c. to their offsping ; a neglect of which is produc tive of fuch fatal confequences. Infants, when cut ting their firft teeth, are frequently attacked with a complication of diforders, which originate from that caufe :. many of the fymptoms attending the difeafes- ncident to- the crvption of the firft teeth, are dangerous-