APPENDIX. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



The Diseases oj Children's Teeth. By R. Denison Pedley, M.R.C.S., 

 L.D.S. Eng., F.R.C.S. Edin. London : J. P. Segg & Co. 



When the medical student, having successfully passed his last 

 examination, settles down in the country to the practice of his 

 calling there are many things which he finds he is imperfectly 

 acquainted with. Even the industrious ones who have conscien- 

 tiously devoted their attention to the lecturer's words and have read 

 steadily for many months begin to realise at last that medicine is 

 an immense subject, which it takes many years to master. 



More especially is the deficiency felt in the case of those subjects 

 dealt with in the Special Departments, both because these are con- 

 sidered of minor importance by many and also because in some 

 hospitals the opportunities of work afforded by these Departments 

 are few. 



But however the deficiency of knowledge comes about, it is 

 ■equally deplorable, and the newly fledged practitioner can only turn 

 for help to his perhaps scantily furnished library. Woe to him if 

 his choice of books has not been wisely made ! Books bearing 

 upon the special diseases of throat, ear, skin and eye will probably 

 be conspicuous by their absence ; and indeed it is scarcely desirable 

 that the general practitioner should undertake any but the most 

 trivial operations in connection with these, always supposing that 

 he is within reach of a good hospital. 



In the case of the teeth, however, it is different. With a 

 comparatively small amount of knowledge, much can be done to 

 preserve — at any rate for a time — teeth which without attention 

 would infallibly be lost. Of still more importance is it that proper 

 attention should be devoted to the teeth of children, in whose case 

 lack of proper care may, and very probably will, result not merely 

 in deformity of the mouth, more or less serious, but also in the 

 premature loss of members of the permanent dentition. 



A book in which the student and the young practitioner can 

 find set before them in a simple and yet thorough manner the more 

 important points to be attended to in the care of the teeth, and the 



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