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Title: The Dental cosmos
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: White, J. D McQuillen, J. H. (John Hugh), 1826-1879 Ziegler, George Jacob, 1821-1895 White, James William, 1826-1891 Kirk, Edward C. (Edward Cameron), 1856-1933 Anthony, L. Pierce (Lovick Pierce), b. 1877
Subjects: Dentistry Dentistry
Publisher: Philadelphia, S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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t finger- or toe-nails.His mother is said to have been quitewell during the whole period of gesta-tion; she was delivered normally, and * For the illustrations we are indebted toDr. Kuhn Faber. director of the Roentgenclinic at the Royal Frederick Hospital. 928 THE DEXTAL COSMOS. suffered from no post-partum accident.She has never had abortions or stillbirths,and both parents declare that neither ofthem was ever afflicted with disease of amalignant nature, such as syphilis or tu-berculosis. During infancy the patient was verytiny and anemic; although slow of devel-opment he was otherwise healthy. Hehad been of a somewhat reserved dispo- the influence of heredity must be entirelyexcluded. As mentioned above, Magitot also willnot admit the possibility of all the per-manent teeth failing to appear in theabsence of a definite pathologic causeduring intra-uterine life or after birth,unless and until a case of the kind hasbeen conclusively proved by proper scien-tific investigation. Fig. 4.
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sition, and had had the measles andwhooping-cough at the age of two yearsand diphtheria at the age of eight. Thethree attacks of illness ended in recoverywithout complications. As to destructivediseases of the jaws he could not give anyinformation. As the anamnesis coveringthe period of the patients infancy in-cludes the measles only, and as the attackfrom which he suffered had run a nor-mal course, the probable cause of thecomplete absence of the permanent teethmust be attributed to a developmentaldisturbance of some kind during thefetal period, although which particularone it as yet remains impossible to deter-mine. As the patients family historydoes not include another similar case, Fig. 5.

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