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AN

INAUGURAL DISSERTATION

STRUCTURE AND DISEASES

THE TEETH.*

Iw America, no part of the human system is more subject
to disease than the teeth; and the diseases of no part, we be-
lieve are so easily prevented or cured, notwithstanding the
contrary opinion generally obtains.
In order to establish what we have asserted in the foregoing
pages, viz. that the teeth of most persons may be preserved to

* Reasons for re-publishing our Inagurual Essay. We deem it proper
to mention the reasons that have determined us in republishing our in-
augural discourse in this work.
First, it is the ground work on which to raise outfabric ; or in other
words, it contains the fundamental principles on which the diseases of
the teeth must be treated, that success may attend our operations.
Second, it discourses on subjects interesting to professional readers.
Third, many of our patients are anxious to be informed as to the
causes of the diseases of the teeth ; hence, we infer that many of our
readers will be pleased with our arrangement.
Fourth, those who maynot have leisure or inclination to read a lengthy
discourse, can pas the dissertation by ; hence too, we have arranged the
whole work with as much system as possible, that the reader may obtain
the information desired, under its appropriate head.
We purposely leave out the exordium ; also, the concluding obterra-
tions, which are embodied in the work.