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Printed for E. Cox and Son. 1814. Second Edition, enlarged, 4to, x,[ii],100; [iv],179,[1]pp., 23 copper-engraved plates with explanatory text to each, ink ‘File Copy’ stamp to half-title, plates slightly offset, cont. half calf, a little rubbed. Fox first gave a series of dental lectures to students of Guy’s Hospital in 1799 and continued as a lecturer there until his death in 1816. These were the first course of lectures specifically on dentistry to be given in Britain; Fox used these as his base for this book. This is one of the first dental works in English to include illustrations of operative dental procedures and of pathological dental conditions. “Fox’s classical treatise on the teeth is the first to include explicit directions for correcting dental irregularities.”—Garrison & Morton. “As the first lecturer on dentistry at Guy’s Hospital, Fox had an enormous impact on early nineteenth century dental practices. Though much of his theory of oral physiology and pathology was of dubious value, his operative procedures remained in vogue for more than fifty years. This treatise was, in its day, the most complete work of its kind and was the first to give specific operative procedures for correcting dental irregularities.”—Heirs of Hippocrates. Crowley 1539; Garrison & Morton 3679.1; Norman 825; Wellcome III, p. 50; Heirs of Hippocrates 1314. |
