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Preface to the First Edition.

This work has been prepared by the author In deference to
many requests from former pupils, and has been compiled from
lectures delivered by him in dental institutions during the past
twenty-five years, and notes obtained from the standard works
on Materia Medica and Therapeutics, and also from personal
experience as a dental practitioner and teacher.
While the author claims the credit of the compilation, he does
not claim originality in the sources, derivations, medical proper-
ties and action of the various articles of dental materia medica
which are given in this work.
His intention has been to present not alone his own ideas as
to the particular application of remedies, but also those of well-
known and acknowledged authorities, and in such a manner as
may be of service to the dental student in acquiring a knowledge
of this important branch of his profession; hence nothing has
been presented in this work that, in the author's opinion, is not
applicable to dental practice, and that will not be of benefit to
the dental student.
The dental formulary comprises many valuable combinations,
and credit has been given, in every case where it was possible,
to the authors of the different preparations.
The necessity for an American work of this kind has long
been apparent, and after years of delay and promises the author
gratefully dedicates this work to his former pupils in the dental
institutions with which he has been and is now connected, in the
capacity of a teacher.
Ferdinand S. Gorgas.
J.
Hamilton Terrace, Baltimore, Md.
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