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by the frequent Attrition in Maftication. Here, 

 by the by, I inight advife Men to be careful how 

 they attempt to cure this Blemifh, by filing or 

 cutting off the head of fuch an overgrown Tooth, 

 left that befal them which happen'd to a certain 

 Nun in Padua, who upon cutting off a Tooth in 

 that manner, was prefen^y convulfed, and fell 

 into an Epilepfy, as Bartholine in his Anatomy 

 reports. 



II. That that Part of the Teeth which is ex- 

 tant above the Gums is naked, and not inverted 

 with that fenfible Membrane call'd Periojieuniy 

 wherewith the other Bones are covered. 



III. That the Teeth are of a clofer and harder 

 Subftance than the reft of the Bones, for the 

 more eafy breaking and comminution of the 

 more folid Aliments, and that they might be 

 more durable, and not fo foon worn down by 

 grinding the Food. 



IV. That for the nourifhing and cherifliing 

 thefe fo neceffary Bones, the all-wife Author of 

 Things has admirably contrived an unfeen Cavity 

 in each fide of the Jaw-bone, in* which greater 

 Channel are lodg'd an Artery, a Vein, and a Nerve, 

 which thro' leffer Cavities, as it were thro* Gut- 

 ters,, fend their Twigs to each particular Tooth. 



V. Eecaufe 



