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GUIDE TO SOUND TEETH.

NATURAL HISTORY OF THE TEETH

It is not our intention to enter into the subject of the natural
history of the teeth, farther than we deem barely necessary, in
order that the reader may fully understand what we shall
have to say on the management of the teeth, for the preven-
tion and treatment of the diseases of these organs.

ANATOMY* AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE TEETH.
" The teeth," says Mr. Thomas Bell, " may be defined in
the human subject, as distinct organs of a bony structure,
attached to the maxillary bones, and formed for the purpose of
dividing and comminuting the food, preparatory to digestion."
The teeth are the hardest bones of the human system, as is
proved by the fact, that in ancient places of sepulture, the
* Anatomy, (from the Greekj to cut through or up.) "The dissection
or dividing of organized substances, to expose the structure, situation
and uses of parts."
Physiology, (a discourse on nature.) " That science which has for its
object, the knowledge of the phenomena, proper to living bodies."
Hooper's Medical bictionary.