Extraction of Teeth (Classic Reprint)

The only justification for adding still another to the list of books upon the extraction of teeth is that the author has something new to say. No progress has ever been made by orthodoxy, and it is my deep conviction that the orthodox methods of extracting teeth are wrong in principle and bad in practice that has induced me to consent to give a wider publicity to my own heterodox views. For some years past, a number of Colonial and American dental graduates have been coming toE dinburgh for a few months for special instruction in Anaesthesia andE xtractions, and they and many medical practitioners who have attended my Department at the Royal I nfirmary, have expressed the wish that I would write a book embodying my teaching, and, so far as it is possible, describing the technique. The task has been more arduous than I anticipated. The book has been written and re-written at odd moments during the past five years, and had it not been for the great help afforded by my wife in revising and correcting the manuscript, it would never have been completed. The operative technique has been illustrated by a number of original photographs, in the hope that they will elucidate any obscurity in the text. There are also photographs of specimens, which are from my own collection, unless otherwise stated.
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