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Preface to Sixth Edition.

In preparing the Sixth Edition of the " Dental Medicine," the
author has conscientiously endeavored to further improve a trea-
tise which has become a text-book for the dental student, and a
work of reference for the dental practitioner.
It has been his aim not only to make additions to the present
volume, but also to so improve it as to render it worthy of a
continuance of the favor heretofore so generously bestowed upon
those which have preceded it.
The general arrangement of this new edition is the same as in
the previous one, and all parts have been carefully revised and
corrected.
A work of this character should, as far as is possible, be a com-
plete, as well as a practical exposition of the source or derivation,
properties and methods of application or administration, and also
the uses of the various drugs now employed in dental practice.
And, as cases often occur in the treatment of which old and
familiar remedies are employed in vain, it is well that we should
possess a knowledge of other and more recent ones to the use of
which we mav successfully resort. A number of drugs and
combinations have been recently introduced, some of which
appear to be verv valuable additions to the dental materia medica;
and it has been the aim of the author to bring the description
and application of such drugs as are useful up to the date of pub-
lication of this new edition. As a general rule, such information
has only appeared in domestic and foreign journals, which are often
practically inaccessible ; hence, the necessity for a work on dental
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