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100 1 _aBrown, Solyman,
_d1790-1876
245 1 0 _aDentologia
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-01-12
508 _aTim Lindell, chenzw, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a“Dentologia” by Solyman Brown is a didactic medical poem written in the early 19th century. It versifies the causes, prevention, and treatment of dental diseases while arguing for the social, aesthetic, and health importance of sound teeth, blending moral exhortation with practical care. The opening of Dentologia frames the poem’s purpose through a preface praising its utility and warning against incompetent practitioners, followed by a dedicatory letter that situates the work within professional dentistry. Canto I invokes living beauty, links character to countenance, proposes dentistry as its theme, and explains the natural shedding of children’s teeth and the need for skilled oversight. Canto II treats first and second dentition, endorses timely lancing and extractions to prevent pain and deformity, and lauds the teeth’s perfected design. Canto III condemns luxury, intemperance, and uncleanliness, urges daily oral hygiene, and illustrates neglect through Urilla’s ruined smile, introducing caries and toothache and their relief. Canto IV outlines remedies—filing, gold fillings, extractions, and artificial teeth—celebrating the art’s humane benefits; Canto V ties dental health to digestion, nerves, speech, eloquence, and song, with brief scenes of orator, pastor, and a singer whose voice is saved by dental skill. The appended notes begin supplying historical and practical authorities to support these claims. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: unknown, 1840
653 _aTeeth -- Diseases
653 _aTeeth -- Poetry
700 1 _aParmly, Eleazar,
_d1797-1874
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/0337107.nlm.nih.gov/page/n3/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77677
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