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PREFACE.

This series of lectures, as printed, were taken in shorthand
in the lecture room, and have had no other rearrangement than
the cutting out of some repetitions of thought and a few word

corrections. Therefore, it must be expected that much of the
language is better fitted for the lecture room than for the
printed page. In the course of the lectures class illustrations
were supplied, which, with much of the descriptive matter per-
taining to them, will be m^issed from the pages as printed,
which will be a serious loss to the reader through much of the
matter presented, particularly so if he has not been present at
the lectures.
The printing of the lectures has been purely for the ben-
efit of the students in the school, and the edition has been only
sufiicient to accommodate their needs. It has not, therefore,
been their intention that the lectures go to the general pro-
fession.
The scope of the lectures in Operative Dentistry has been
confined to the consideration of dental caries and to the man-
agement of its treatment. The technical methods employed in
this treatment have been given separately in the junior year,
and in a recitation course in the senior year, the basis of which
is embodied in the book entitled 'Technical Procedures in Fill-
ing Teeth," to which occasional reference is made. The first
three lectures, however, were intended to cover some points
not sufficiently considered in the book mentioned, and do not
properly belong to the regular course as planned.
The treatment of diseases of the pulp, pericementitis, alveo-
lar abscess and other pathological conditions of the soft parts,
which are usually considered with Operative Dentistry, has
been assigned to Prof. Peck, and therefore does not appear in
this lecture course.
It is hoped that the frequent reference to these lectures
will be of benefit to students in the first years of practice.

G. V. BLACK.