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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    that he can know the diseases to which the jaws are liable, their intricate anatomy, and the kinds of irritability which ill-judged dental operations may give rise to. He may advertise himself the author of a work which he may have employed some person to write ; and parents, seduced by the advertisement, will take their children to him. In lancing the gums he may cut the ranine artery of the tongue, and the hemorrhage would be so great that the infant would only be saved from death by a miracle ; for it cannot be presumed he can know how to control an accident which may arise from an irregular distribution of the arteries, which often occurs, and which requires the greatest skill to manage. Again; in lancing the gums of grown persons, he may do the greatest injury. He may, with the teeth, mistake sympathy for other causes, and ex- tract every tooth in the head, after which he can easily procure workmen to make false ones. If his patient should be unprotected and friendless.