An appeal to parliament, the medical profession, and the public, on the present state of dental surgery / by George Waite.

  • Waite George Derby, 1804-1880.
Date:
1841
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An appeal to parliament, the medical profession, and the public, on the present state of dental surgery / by George Waite. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    tradesmen, vendors of quack medicine, even old- clothes-men, and others assuming false or foreign names have dispersed themselves throughout Eng- land, and, regardless of any feeling of truth, put forth advertisements professing impossibilities:— thus enticing to their houses females, and others, they have in the great majority of cases, where timidity has existed, and a fear of naming their loss of teeth to intimate friends, extorted sums of money too enormous for public belief! When these have been paid, and the operations failed, fear of exposure may keep all sub umbra: sufficient however has come to light, to shew that some check should be placed on these glaring abuses upon professional men on whom these circum- stances have fallen heavily, for unjust opinions have been formed of their abilities, and the incom- petency of the Empiric misconstrued into pre- judice against the science. Among Dentists, at present, no cordiality exists ; first-rate science has been confined *to a