Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. As the Teeth form a distinct department of the medical profession, Surgeons generally omit paying that attention to them which many interesting and useful facts connected with them appear to demand, and thus it will be perceived, that as Dentists of the present day have but a slight knowledge of anatomy, little progress is made in their physiology and pa thology.