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24 Natural History of the Teeth.
The following is Mr. Bell's table of the periods, between
which the milk teeth are cut.
From 5 to 8 months, the four central incisores,
»« 7 to 10 " the four lateral incisores,
" 12 to 16 " the four anterior molares,
" 14 to 20 " the four cuspidati,
" 18 to 36 " the four posterior molares.
another that sometime* happens to women at this age it should appear
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Vhi. there is <=ome effort in nature to renew the body at that time.
«ThS audS"of Una work once attended a lady in gantry, who
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cut several straying teeth at the age of seventy-tour; and at the same
t me rlcov red s^ch an acuteness of vision as to throw away her pecta
cles, which she had made use of for twenty years, andto be ab le to read
with ease the smallest print of the newspapers In anot her caw that
a small hand-bell, which was always kept by her, in Older lo determine
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«th"Ge rmfn°F.phem,rid,. e.ntain numerous example, of the same
and at seventy-seven reproduced another to supply a
fi^evears before

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'™ZmrimeI these teeth are reproduced with wonderful rapidity; but,

mentfboth jaws were furnished with a new set of teeth complete in
nU ™The iugglers on the continent, a century or two ago, were in the habit
of takinVadfantLe of this occasional playfulness of nature, and offering,
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