STUDENT'S GUIDE ΤΟ DENTAL ANATOMY AND SURGERY BY HENRY SEWILL MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS AND LICENTIATE IN DENTAL SURGERY, HON. SEC. ODONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN, DENTIST TO THE WEST LONDON HOSPITAL, ETC. PREFACE. No department of physiology or surgery has of late years made greater progress than that connected with the teeth, and this advance has been necessarily attended by a corresponding increase in the literature of the subject, which has now become so voluminous as to form a source of embarrassment to those who are entering upon a course of dental education. Under these circumstances the projectors of the "Students' Guide" manuals have considered a work on Dental Anatomy and Surgery a desirable addition to the series. It is designed that these manuals should be free from needless technicalities; that they should facilitate the labours of the student; and that whilst each volume-although presenting merely an outline of the subject-should be complete in itself, it should at the same time lead the reader to desire, and direct him in seeking, the fuller knowledge afforded by more extended treatises. These designs I have striven to accomplish in this volume. It must, however, not be supposed that the student can profitably peruse even the most rudimentary text book on any special branch of physiology or surgery |