DEN 
is generally employed a ae purpofe. - 
gether fuperfluous to mention the numerous abfurd remedies, 
which ignorance and fetes have introduced, at dif- 
ferent times, to aid the ca of dentition ; and efpecially 
as local applications to the gums. ‘T’he reader will find them 
amply detailed in Hen ee PraGtical Treatife on aaa ae ' 
Perhaps a fhort {pecimen will fatisfy hi 
* 
is 
fa") 
w upon bare oe 
all, in peotioas cafes, if we may depen 
rhe tines of Hartman (as mentioned by Bur nee) Ghe 
€ of a cock’s comb is truly praifeworthy ; for this, 
{ays he, being only once, or twice at moft, anointed on. the 
gums with the finger, caufes.a production of the ahs with- 
-out difficulty, and free from accidents. This we find alfo 
recommended by Silvius and Waldfchmidt.? ie Cit. 
p. 33+ All this, however, is fcarcely lefs and ai than 
the wearing of certain necklaces, in our own day, for the 
purpofe of arta cifficult dentitio 
** With refpect to lancing the ae there was formerly 
dnuch difference of opinior. 
quhich cafe the fame eae will be ee od fee 
mutt be removed by the fame method. 
the operation above ten times upon the fam 
the difeafe had recurred fo often, and every Ga with the. 
abfolute removal of the fymptoms. 
as been afferted, that to cut the gum once will be 
fufficient, not only to remove the prefent, cure to prevent 
any future fo iy mptoms from the fame ca This is 
contradictor 
ani o 
of a re-un 
original gum, and therefore the teeth wiil find more dif. 
saanoee in ial and give more pain. But this is alfo con- 
trary t ; for we find that all parts, which have been 
ae her of wounds or fores, are always more ready 
o give way to preffure, or any other difeafe, which attacks 
ae he a itfelf, or the conftitution. Therefore each 
Ss aaitigh apa to make the pafling of the teeth aie sd 
Hun e Human Teeth, Part ii. p. 121. See In- 
a, Dia 
DENTON, cca, in ae the youngeft fon of 
fir T. ee of ae n, in Buckinghamfhire, was born 
at Stow, in April 1605. He received hie etc at Mag. 
dalen Fall in Ostord, where he was initiated into oa ae 
tice of medicine, under Dr. Henry Afhwor 163 
he pie his degree of scrar and going foon after ‘ refide 
in on, he was appointed phyfician to the king, Charles I. 
Duviog the troubles aan Succeeded, he continued to 
Te would Ge ultess 
- DEN 
pradiife in a ieee in London; but ated during that 
mu 
time w h moderation, that on Ales reftoration of. 
; to whom, 
e dedicated, «Jar R € imine,” ea a ineaien of dee 
fenfive arms in gene eral, fhewin at the revolution 
is dau ghter - was married, to George. 
Nicholas, ae of fir Edward Nicholas, fome time fecre- 
tary of ftate under the kings Charles I. and II. -The titles. 
of his falas which are all on political fubje&ts, follow : 
al ecive, or a treatife fhewing the Original, 
Grounds, Reafons, and Provocations, neceflitating our fan-- 
guinary Laws againit ere made in the Day 
Elizabeth,” 1664, 
nts. 
4to. © Jus Ce favis et eee a vere e di 
To this the author added, on a fingle ihe ‘s Apo ae gy 
for the Liberty of the Prefs.” Wo od’s Athen, z 
Dentro re in Geography, a town of Rencnea, the chief 
and pot town of Caroline county, in Mar land, on the 
E. fide of Choptank creek, the E, main branch of Choptank 
It is regularly laid out, has a few houfes, and lies 
. of Greenfborough, and 37 S. S, E. of Chefter 
TZHEIM, a town of Cu many, in the circle of 
the oe Rhine, and eletorate of Treves; 10 miles N. E. 
DENUDATION, from de, and audus, naked. 
Exrouiatio 
Denxup Sion ,in a This fermi fas lately been in- 
troduced, to exprefs t d:ifappearances of the upper itrata 
of the earch in particy ie a Py which the lower ftrata 
are partially expofed to vie 
Whitehurft, 
° 
ae! 
See 
nd 
-fhale, &c. as the recent eilenations 
of Mr. Smith and his pupils have fhewn. It alfo appears, 
that {maller patches of the mineral lime-fone are expofed or 
denudated at A hover, and at Crich in Derby fhire, furrounded 
and covered by fhale, which is again covered by grit-ftone and 
coal-fhale, as above-mentioned. Onthe fouth ‘ide of the river 
Thames, amuch larger denudation of the {trata has glee 
in the counties of Surry, Kent, Suffex, and Hants, as m 
tioned in our article Coat, bounded by thofe tras of high 
chalk Jand, known by the names of the Poe and the 
South-Downs, be their conneQing chalk r 
rance. 
Tas of Kent, Suffex, and eee was 
ned b y Mr. Varey in the autumn of 1806, and a 
fedtion epee the Surry ft Suffex Wealds, was "prepared, 
(Se 
