Lanterna Rally

Author: Samuel S. White

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780267972739

Excerpt from Catalogue of Dental Materials, Furniture, Instruments, Etc; For Sale With a View of enabling dentists to gratify the natural curiosity of patients as to the composition and manufacture of porcelain teeth, the following description, condensed from the editorial correspondence. Of the Chicago Tribune, is deemed a suitable preface to this catalogue. No part of my sojourn in Philadelphia has been more interesting to me than the visits I have paid to some of the representative industrial features of the city. The leading manufacturing enterprises whose magnitude is the growth of years, and whose products carry the name of Philadelphia manufacturers to all parts of the country and the habitable globe, are a theme I purpose to speak of in this letter. I have passed the morning among teeth. If there be, par excel lence, an American specialty, it is dentistry. Time was when the dentist was to a large extent his own manufacturer of the teeth with which he contrived to supply nature's losses. It is curious now to look back at the early stages of the art, and see by what steps it found its way towards perfection. First, human teeth, parted with and sold as articles of merchandise; then a recourse to kindred animal substances, bone or ivory, the tusk of the behemoth being largely esteemed. But these had all the perishable character of organic sub stances, the ban of decay had been passed upon them, and so they fell into dis favor. Then the day of porcelain teeth began. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.