Excerpt from A Practical Guide to the Management of the Teeth: Comprising a Discovery of the Origin of Caries, or Decay of the Teeth; With Its Prevention and CureWherever, in the following work, the Author has ventured to criticise either the opinions or practice Of his prede cessors, he can truly say, he has been in?uenced by no other motives, than a wish to promote the improvement of an art but too little studied, and to excite the attention of the public, and the minds of professional men in particular, to its importance. Where their sentiments ap peared founded on just Observation, he has willingly adopted them, and in do ing so, he has not scrupled occasionally to borrow their language. Should what he has written, have the clfect Of resen ing only one individual from the sud'er ings incident to a neglect Of the teeth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.