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PREFACE

The exigences of the Profession seemed to require,
for the department of Operative Dentistry, a work
that should contain all that is known in this branch
of the science. To answer that requirement, the
author of the present work has aimed to furnish, in
as compact a form as possible, the Principles of the

Science, properly digested, the Experiments Detailed,
the Manipulations Described, and the whole method-
ized and thus made available to the Student and the
Practitioner. In the accomplishment of this object,
he has, he believes, included everything meritorious
or important in this department of Dental Study.
To the dental writers whose labors have lightened,
in any degree, the toil of this undertaking, the intelli-
T ,ill ascribe the credit due ; and to the
gent reader y
members of the profession, whose suggestions have

found place in various parts of the volume, the author
gratefully acknowledges his obligations.
J. TAFT.
Cincinnati, July 1, 1859.