Justin is not the real Marquess, conducts | self next? The third prize was adjudged to

Marguerite to the presence of the Count, and thus the truth is discovered. The Count pardons Justin, who has been the means of saving his life, and he consents to his union with Adolphine.

The piece was tolerably successful.

POLITICS.

Portugal has followed the example of Spain; and a revolution has overturned the Regency, as the preface to a constitutional governinent.

The defence of the Queen has been postponed to the 3d of October: it is looked for with great curiosity.

VARIETIES.

a flower distinguished by the name of the
Trial by Jury !(French Puper.)

METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL.

SEPTEMBER, 1820.

Thursday, 7-Thermometer from 37 to 68.
Barometer from 30, 27 to 30, 30.
Wind E b. S. and 1.-Generally fair; the
sun shining through light clouds.
Friday, 8-Thermometer from 41 to 69.
Barometer from 30, 33 to 30, 50.
Wind N. W. 1. and N. b. W. 2 and 4-Ge-

Miracle.-At the church of St. Gervais,
in Paris, a mass, called the Hostie enlevée,
is performed every Friday. Respecting the
origin of this custom, the following curious
story is related. A thief stole the vessel
containing the host from the church of St.
Gervais. On arriving near St. Denis, henerally hazy; at times clear.
opened the cup, when the host flew out, and
fluttered around him, without his being able
to catch it. He was tried and condemned on
the prosecution of the Abbé of St. Denis.
A lawsuit afterwards ensued between the
Abbé and the Bishop of Paris, respecting
the possession of the miraculous host; and Monday, 11-Thermometer from 41 to 76.
it was finally agreed that it should be deli-
vered up to the curate of St. Gervais, who
had consecrated it; but on the express con-
dition that the mass above mentioned should
be regularly celebrated.

REMARKABLE CANNON.-At Kubberpore na Jheel, in India, there is a cannon 213 Pasquinade. At all the religious festivals inches long, 66 inches round the muzzle, in Rome, travellers of whatever religion, and and 18 inches round the calibre. It has especially British, obtain admission, in prefive, and had, originally, six equidistant ference to the native Catholics. A bon mot rings, by which it was lifted up. This gun has appeared on this custom. Pasquin asks is called by the natives Jaun Kushall, or the Marforio, "Where are you going, brother, destroyer of life, and its casting and position dressed in black, and a sword at your side?" are attributed to the deotas or divinities,Marforio, "I am going to the Sixtine though its almost obliterated Persian inscrip- Chapel, to hear the Miserere."-Pasquin, tions declare its formation by human means. You go in vain. The Swiss Guards will But what is most extraordinary about it is, push you away, and the papal cavaliers pothat two peepul trees have grown both can- litely refuse you admission."-Marforio, non and carriage into themselves. Frag-"Don't be afraid; I shall get in, for I turnments of the iron, a spring, one of the ed heretic yesterday." linches, and part of the wood-work, protrude from between the roots and bodies of these trees, but the trees alone entirely support the gun, one of the rings of which, and half of its whole length, are completely hid between and inside their bark and trunks. A more curious sight, or a cannon more firmly fixed, though by the mere gradual growth of two trees, cannot well be imagined. The Indians assert that it was only once fired, and sent the ball 24 miles!!-(See Asiatic Journal.)

The busts of celebrated Italians, which have hitherto adorned the Pantheon at Rome, were lately removed to a gallery prepared for that purpose in the Capitol, where it is in contemplation to form a museum of all the celebrated men that Italy has produced. The writer of an article inserted in the Allgemeine Zeitung, strongly censures the removal of the busts of Raphael and of other distinguished men who were buried in the church of the Rotunda (the Pantheon). It is, however, extremely doubtful whether the mortal remains of Raphael were deposited in the church; and with the exception of Carlo Maratti, it is pretty certain that none of the great men, whose busts have lately been removed, were buried there.

A horticultural society in England, which annually distributes medals for beautiful flowers exhibited by its members, this year awarded the grand prize to the cultivator of a fine carnation, which was named the Afflicted Queen. The second prize was given for another flower of the same species, called British Opinion. Where will opinion fix it

Dr. Gesenius, who, with Lord Guildford,
has been recently transcribing some Arabian
MSS. at the Bodleian Library, has nearly
completed the singular task of translating the
Book of Enoch from the Abyssinian language.
This language resembles the Arabic, one
fourth of the words perhaps being radically of
that tongue, in which the learned Doctor is
well skilled, while he is also one of the most
celebrated Hebrew scholars on the continent.

We are informed that the report of MS.
Poems of Ossian having been discovered at
Connor, is unfounded. It is not likely that
any one credited it.

LITERARY NOTICES.

Contents of the Journal des Savans, for August,

1820.

B. de Roquefort, Poésies de Marie de
France.-Reviewed by M. Raynouard.
Biot on the Aurora Borealis.

F. de Neufchateau, L'Esprit du grand Cor-
neille.-M. Raynouard.

T. Matter, Essai Historique sur l'Ecole
d'Alexandrie.-M. Daunou.

Abel Rémusat, Recherches sur les Langues
Tartares.-Silvestre de Sacy.

Barde du Vigan, Un Mot sur la nouvelle
Orthographe.-M. Raynouard.

The famous Bergami is, according to the
French Papers, preparing his memoirs for
publication at Neufchatel.

A tragedy from the pen of Lord Byron is on the tapis. We understand that it is to be published, and not offered to any Theatre for performance.

Barometer from 30, 51 to 30, 49.
Saturday, 9-Thermometer from 39 to 70.
Wind N. b. W. 4. and S. W. 1.-Generally
hazy; at times clear.
Sunday, 10-Thermometer from 41 to 71.
Barometer from 30, 48 to 30, 43.
Wind S. W.-Generally clear.

Barometer from 30, 44 to 30. 41. Wind S. W. and E. b. S. 1.-Generally clear.

Tuesday, 12-Thermometer from 49 to 74.
Barometer from 30, 41 to 30, 38.
Wind S. E. 1.-Generally clear; clouds pas-

sing. The Northern Lights about 10 this even-
ing, rather bright, but quite still.
Wednesday, 13-Thermometer from 43 to 73.

Barometer from 30,35 to 30,28.

Wind S. E. and 1.-Generally clear. A thick haze or fog every morning during the week, which sometimes lasted all the forenoon.

On Saturday the 23d, at 6 minutes, 46 se

conds after 9 o'clock, the 1st Satellite of Jupiter will emerge from an eclipse.

On Friday 22nd of September the moon will be eclipsed, partly visible at Greenwich. Beginning of the eclipse (clock time) 5. 6. 29. A.M. 5. 49. 59. JOHN ADAMS.

Moon sets eclipsed,
Edmonton, Middlesex.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We shall be glad to receive the conclusion of the Essay on the Incontinence of the Clergy anterior to the Reformation: it is contrary to our rule to commence a subject without being sure that we shall be able to finish it.

R. R.'s hint respecting a more copious Index to the
annual volume of the Literary Gazette, shall be
attended to the Editor is aware of the utility
of distinct reference in so mixed a publication.
T. R. C.-We must see the drawings, &c. mention-
ed by T. R. C. before we can make any state-
ment concerning them.
A.C.'s communication is objectionable on grounds
which may (if wished) be stated in a private
letter.

ERRATA. In the Review of Prometheus Unbound,
last Number, p. 580, col. 3, 1. 23, for Sutur-
nia read Saturnia; l. 31, for Signior r. Sig-
nore; 1. 32. for Caucacus r. Caucasus; p. 581,
col. 2, 1.13, for Colorofior. Colorific.
In the verses on the Angel of the World, in our
last, a line was accidentally dropped in passing
from one column to the other. It is the 6th line
of the second stanza.

"Pluming our spirits pinions at the page
Where sweet Floranthe, &c."

AND

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No. 192.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1820.

REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS.

YOUR TEETH!

PRICE 8d.

few the number of their remaining grinders | ed, for the purpose of removing a swelling
may be, they ought to regard them with due of the gums, and of fastening loose teeth.
care: in fact, we can well suppose that the From the advantages which have been expe-
value even of a stump augments as its neigh-rienced, some of these have been converted
bours successively disappear; as we love the into articles of luxury. Such is the advice
last of our old friends apparently with the given by the ancient poets upon the preser-
whole concentrated affection which we once vation of the teeth; it is in vain to observe
bestowed on a whole row of them.
that Tibullus represents Venus as always
to the mouth: it is only by conforming to
sure to please, without having paid attention,
the precepts of the art, that we can give to
the teeth that lustre alluded to by Ovid, in the
following expression, I can perceive your at-
tentions, by the whiteness of your teeth.' When
according to Catullus, by a flowry month:
Julia presented herself to Manlius, she shone,
she doubtless possessed those teeth of snow
so sung by the favourite of the muses, or
that row of pearls so extolled by Lucian;
the lustre of which was extolled by Theocri-
tus, as above that of the finest marble of
Paros.

The Dentiste de la Jeunesse; or, the
way to have sound and beautiful Teeth,
preceded by the advice of the Ancient
Poets upon the Preservation of the
Teeth, &c. &c. By J. R. Duval, Den-universal interest on the simple appeal to the
But our author does not rest his claim to
tist; Translated and supplied with
personal feelings of every individual; he
Notes by J. Atkinson, Surgeon Den- sustains himself on the highest classical au-
tist, &c. London and Leeds, 1820. thorities; and with all that philosophy and
8vo. pp. 161.
astonishing erudition so happily illustrated
We have made " YOUR TEETH" our of his theory; and, accordingly, commences
by French writers, lays deep the foundations |
Head, for the sake of attracting peculiar with a chapter containing the "Adrice of
attention to the very generally interest- the Ancient Poets on the Preservation of
ing book whose title we have partially the Teeth." This, it will be allowed, even
extracted above. Yet, truly, this may by national jealousy, is a genuine, and an
seem needless, since they must be young original mode of setting out with a treatise
indeed who are not aware of the im-on teething and tooth-powders. It would
have been long before so brilliant an idea en-
portance of the subject, and extremely tered the mind of a native of our land of fogs
old who do not care for it. To all who and stupidity. But to return to Mr. Duval
come within the pale of life, from nine and the ancient poets. Lucretius was, it
months to ninety years; to all who seems, quite wrong in supposing that age
stand between that period, when Time demanded the fall of the teeth :
itself is toothless, and that epoch when Nec minus in certo dentes cadere imperat ætas
the devouring jaws of eternity are gap-
Tempore.
ing for their final crash, this work
must present much for rumination.

Had Mr. Duval practised in those days,
the bard would have known better. Ovid
was a wiser, as well as a more delicate obser-
ver of the teeth.-

Quid si præcipiam, ne fuscet inertia dentes;
strenuous
and Horace and Martial were
advocates for keeping them clean. Plautus,
Catullus, Herodotus, Palladius, Hippocrates,
Juvenal, Macedonius, Petronius, Tibullus,
Sammonicus, Galen, Virgil, Apuleius, and
a hundred other illustrious authors, fortify
Mr. Duval's positions.

The Dentiste de la Jeunesse is rather an inauspicious Anglo-French mixture of a name; and hypercritics might feel disposed to imagine that the volume would be but so-so, which set out in so fantastic a manner; but, as no one can tell what sort of a mouthful of teeth may spring up from merely locking at the tumours of their cutting, so we would advise no one to form an opinion "Petronius, in describing the luxury and of a scientific publication from a mere effeminacy of a certain people, observes that they made use of silver tooth picks. Mar. glance at the first page. If in the pretial says the best tooth pick is the lentisk; sent instance, for example, they perse-if, however, you cannot procure a tender vere, as we have done, to the end, we shoot, you may pick your teeth with a quill,' can promise them that considerable but this was not to be used too freely. Ovid amusement, if not instruction, will be forbids the picking of the teeth in company. their reward. The neglect of this rule by Esculanus, proQuackery apart, Monsieur J. R. Du-bably drew upon him the remonstrance of val is a very extraordinary person, as the following analysis "shall fructify unto you."

The preface is not remarkable for any great discovery, except it be that "Attention to the teeth is necessary at every age; and even when we have been deprived of some, still it is of very great importance to be able to preserve those which remain." Our readers will therefore observe, that, however VOL. IV.

regard the loss of the teeth as an uncertain
"Let youth, who with too much security
problem, remember, that according to Mar-
cian, the figure cannot be agreeable when a
front tooth is wanting; a Greek poet ob-
serves, that such a mouth has lost the
graces with which it was decorated: Ovid
wisely proposes as a remedy against love, to
tentive to this stratagem, ought not the
make her laugh who has defective teeth; at-
young amante to recollert, that art is capa
ble of supplying the defect, and should it
not call to the remembrance of him, who
wishes to please, the following lines:
Si Chloe dans ses dents vous offre quelque appas,
Par les vôtres, Daphnis, ne lui répugnez pas.”

Having in this way, and with so much learning, established the fact, that teeth are really useful and ornamental, and ought to be taken care of, our philosophical dentist very judiciously adds, "It is not enough to know with the poets, the mole of treating the teeth adopted by the ancients; it is of more importance to be acquainted with the best and most likely means of renderiag and preserving them in a healthy state."

To supply this information, is the avowed object of his treatise; and, if it does invariably resolve into the conclusion that you ought always to employ a dentist, that only shows the extreme anxiety of the writer that Martial: He was almost toothless,' says he, the best assistance should be at hand for so and the tooth-pick was constantly in his momentous a matter as dentition and toothmouth. The coquettes of Greece, when cleaning. That laudable anxiety is also furthey were laughing, were in the habit of ther evinced by the references kindly furnishholding a little branch of myrtle, in order to ed to preceding publications by the author, display their beauty, between their teeth; whose "Dissertation upon the Accidents this trait has not escaped the notice of the arising from the Extraction of the Teeth," comic Alexis: perhaps however it may have “ Propositions respecting Dental Fistulæ, been used for the sake of necessity. Hippo- Paris, 1814;" "Historical Researches upon crates, and the other physicians of antiquity, the Dentists' Art among the Ancients, pubrecommended certain substances to be chew-lished at Paris in 1803 ;" "Anecdotes His

forical, Literary, and Critical, in Medicine, Surgery, and Pharmacy, (Paris, 1785);" "Bulletin de la Faculté de Medecin de Paris, 1808;" and " Reflections upon Odontalgia;" (all which "see") contain the fullest and most invaluable information. Should the world not be inclined to buy all these tomes, it may be well to know how much intelligence is contained in le (we beg | pardon, the) Dentiste; and in the first place it is worthy of remark, as Mr. Duval ingeniously states, "that the Latin word which signifies a tooth, is an abbreviation of another word, which implies chewing, and which proves that the teeth have always been considered by the ancients as formed especially for that operation."!!

the case; drawing, at the same time, this very
obvious inference from it (for he is literally
savant jusqu'aux dents) viz. From this
circumstance arose no doubt the ingenious
fable, which represents Cadmus as giving
birth to men, by sowing the teeth of the
dragon which he had slain.” ↓ !

eates the little sufferers, was endemic or peculiar to Scotland: and it is observable, that the Scotch plunge themselves and their children into cold water, even in the depth of winter'! Nor let any of our southern readers fancy that Mr. Duval approves more of their customs. No, addressing his countrywomen, he says; "To clothe a child as much as is requisite to shelter it from the sudden impressions of heat and cold, is what nature demands for an easy dentition; every where she offers us the example. Let us endeavour rather to imitate her, than to believe that we can do better, and leave to the English to make their children walk barefoot, according to the advice of their writers Locke, Floyer, Hamilton, and others." After this we are not surprized to learn that the French ladies are such admirable nurses that their milk sometimes absolutely intoxicates their babies!! *

Not being quite sure that men were born from teeth, we are, at all events, certain that teeth are exceedingly serviceable appendages to them, after they have been born. In this Mr. Duval bears us out: "If (says he) the orator to whom Rome had the honour of giving birth, compared the teeth to the chords of a musical instrument for the purpose of modifying the sound of the voice; if, in order to speak the Jewish tongue with more grace, This marvellous natural secret being ripped St. Jerom caused his teeth to be filed; if from the mystical and hieroglyphical oracles they serve physiognomists with the means of the earliest sages; Mr. D. increases our ad- of calculating the probable longevity and miration of his acumen and sagacity by fur- moral character of man, and if they form one ther informing us, that "The teeth are of the greatest ornaments of beauty, the pa- These little drunken animals, however, like found in most animals which live upon solid rasite in his turn only esteems them for one other children, about the age of seven years, food, and they serve naturalists for the pur-function more important, in which he puts come to their second dentition, or permanent pase of classing them into herbivorous, gra- those organs into action for the purpose of teeth; and in this department Mr. Duval's minivorous, and carnivorous; and as man dividing and grinding his aliment, which learning shines once more: "To see, (says is endowed with all these different kinds, he forms the object of his delight; the freshness he) two rows of teeth, as in the son of Mithis called omnivorous, that is, he is intended of his appearance announces his having mas-ridatus, or three, as in Hercules, must certo eat of all." !! ticated well, and consequently the digestion tainly excite our astonishment: perhaps, we has been perfect; which seems to verify an might be tempted to doubt these facts, and adage used by the Arabian physicians, he consider them only as fables, if in a collection who does not inasticate well, is an enemy to of observations published at Breslaw, in his own life."" And this admirable axiom 1772, and dedicated to the celebrated Haller, is immediately clenched by a quotation from Arnold had not reported, that he had seen a the Arabic! "Illun qui non benè mastica-child, aged fourteen years, who had seventyverit, animam suam odisse constat." two teeth, thirty-two for each jaw, which were healthy and well placed in two rows, except the front ones, which were slightly irregular." The cutting of teeth in very old age, he also tells us, is not in the common course of nature, and facetiously proposes the following epitaph, composed by himself, for the general use of such exceptions to the rules of dentists.

The Ogre Man, thus felicitously defined by his cdacious qualities, is fitted, as our readers who are concerned in the fact will be happy to learn, for his devouring purposes, in the following manner :

here again, if he mounts into the third hea-
vens, it will be acknowledged that he has
the excuse of some connection with the
Vin Lactea, or Milky Way. His exordium
is in a style worthy of him, or of his
translator. "Although," says he, "in general
dentition is only considered as an operation
by which the teeth tend to pierce and tra-
verse the gums, in order to arrange them-
selves in their places, yet we cannot dispense
with the necessity of considering it in a more
extended point of view. The teeth, as well

"When the mouth is opened the teeth exhibit themselves under the form of two semicircular rows of little white bodies, hard The next branch handled by our author is and shining; in the adult they are thirty-that of the first dentition, or milk teeth; and two in number, sixteen for each jaw: the four in the middle are flat and cutting, they are therefore called inscisores or cutting teeth; from their connection with the four others of the lower jaw, which have the same name, there can be no doubt, that they are intended to cut, when they come in contact, like a pair of scissors. Upon the -sides of these in each jaw are two teeth, which are more round and sharp, and which seem made to tear the aliment, like those of dogs, from which they borrow their name; (canine) they are also called eye teeth, be-as every other part of the body, begin to cause their root being exceedingly long, approaches the eye nearer than those of any other tooth; they do not however communieate with that organ, and the involuntary tears which are observed to flow when one of them is drawn, are also seen upon the extraction of one of the grinders; they are also called angular teeth, either on account of their form, or because being placed at each angle of the mouth, they regulate its extent: more backward, and on each side of these teeth, are fire others called molares or grinders, two smail, and three large, whose office it is to grind the food, and have the same effect in mastication as the mill stones have in a mill."

So provided with cutters, tearers, and grinders, including the wisdom teeth, it is strange that men should have fallen into such a blunder about these members, as to have regarded them as inorganic bodies without life, which Mr. Duval assures us has been Dens quasi dictus edens.

exist from the earliest moments of life."
Nevertheless, "The child being born, the
nourishment destined for him, proves that
he has no need of teeth during the first year;
it is true that infants have been born with
great monarch, (Louis XIV,) in whom the
presence of a tooth at his birth seemed the
presage of his future greatness."

one or more teeth, this was the case with a

Here lies an old person once toothless and hoary,
Who renew'd all his teeth, and his health and
his hair,

And then was cut off in the height of his glory,
After living two ages devoid of all care.

conduct, the author mildly remonstrates with For these ultra-teethings, and other misNature: that beneficient mother is, as he justly observes," sometimes forgetful in her the Author of all things has marked out for operations, and wanders from the path which her; sometimes she gives to certain teeth an oblique direction, again she transports them they cross each other, or they are so turned to a distance from their proper seat; here This prophetic property of teeth is another as to present one of their sides; there we recommendation to Mr. Duval's work; for observe one which presses against the lip, it will readily be granted, that so extraor-planted in the middle of the palate." producing excoriation; again we find a tooth dinary a quality, in addition to their common and daily usefulness, renders them of infinitely greater importance than any other organ. M. Duval proceeds to condemn the washing of infants in cold water, as prejudicial to the teeth; and with a marked seve rity, reprehends the mothers in Scotland for the practice, as giving their children the croup. "It has been remarked (he tells us) that this cruel disease, which speedily suffo-ground?

Oh! fie on Nature, to give dentists so much trouble as these confounded transportations, transpositions, crossings, and plantings must

* It is a common saying in France, that such a one lies like a dentist-" il ment comme un arracheur de dents;" from the dentists always assuring their patients that drawing a tooth will give no pain. Has Mr. Duval furnished any other

occasion! We should like to see the skill of Duval employed in transplanting a grinder from the middle of the palate to some more appropriate situation.

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gistrate ordered the plant to be pulled up | shaved; but we should not conclude with
and destroyed, believing it to be venomous; Hottinger, that the presence of the beard is
and there was found among its twigs an a preservative against that malady. The
enormous toad. It was, therefore, believed carious and painful teeth of those venerable
that this animal had communicated a per- anchorites, who distinguished themselves by
nicious quality to the leaves of a plant among their long beards, have scarcely left us room
which it delights to live."
to believe that any intimate connection exists
between this part and the teeth."

Having administered this wholesome correction to nature, our author next fails foul of acids, for the mischief they do to his charge, the teeth. "The antients (as he tell us) were The lesson from this is very richnot ignorant of the injurious effects which "Whatever be the origin of this account, acids have upon the teeth, the prophet Jere- it may serve as a lesson to those who hold miah expressly says, that if we eat un-in their mouths, either for their teeth, or for ripe grapes the teeth will be set on edge; and any other purpose, certain substances, whose Solomon, who was not unacquainted with pernicious tendency they are unacquainted the physical sciences, observed an analogy with." between the action of smoke upon the eyes, Mr. Duval now warns his patients against and that of vinegar upon the teeth." Well certain things, which have been found by may he exclaim after this, punning so hap-experience, (and he as usual quotes his pily upon the blowing of flowers. By what authorities,) to be a little detrimental to the fatality then are the minds of men fascinated teeth. Among these, we may particularize with those powders which have an acid base? cracking cherry stones, knocking your mouth It is like the charm of a fine flower, which in playing at blind-man's buff against the only yields an agreeable odour, that it may marble table of a commode or of a chimney, nore effectually strike a mortal blow at those the stroke of a hammer, thumps with tennis who dare approach it." Such persons are balls, a push in the jaw with a foil; against all worse than beasts. which practices, we join in dissuading those who wish to preserve a good show of teeth. Mr. Duval further advises any one whose teeth are "entirely knocked out of their sockets," not to swallow them; though Elian praises this act, in a wrestler whom he mentions (Historiar. Diversar. lib. x. cap. xix.). To this we may annex another piece of excellent counsel given by this prince of dentists. He proceeds:

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"If these truths should appear to some persons ill-founded, or of less weight than we believe they merit, we request them to recollect the lesson which has been given them by the cows, of which M. le Vaillant has given an account, from his own observation of their habits among the Caffres: according to this illustrious traveller, when these cows have eaten herbs which have sour taste, their teeth are strongly set on edge; to relieve which, they mutually bite each others horns, when they cannot find any bones: those persons then, (i. e. such as are not blessed with horns) after using acids to clean their teeth, will try from the example of these animals, to soften their effects by gnawing their nails, and they will finish by biting their fingers."

There are many other things to be shunned, and many to be done; but we must now refer those of our readers who are desirous of further information on this subject, to the work itself, which they will find to be exceedingly particular in its directions on every misadventure and malady incident to teeth-to employ a dentist! This, indeed, is the sum of what we have gathered from it, and the whole may be summed up in the author's own words.

"If, notwithstanding all the precaution to preserve the teeth, certain disorders should still appear, yet we need not despair of a remedy; submitted to the vigilant eye of the professional man, his hand is often able to arrest the progress, and his counsel to remove the cause; but it is important to apply in the incipient state of the disease, for at a certain period, medical science is often unavailing, or precarious."

This course, gentle reader, will make your gums more odorous than the precious gums of Arabia; you may smile and even laugh without fear, and salute without apprehension: but as for the teeth, we would humbly suggest to Mr. Duval, in his own. drolling style, that his last word above quoted, seems to us to be erroneous, since the best system of treatment that we can think of, is that which he appears to depreciate; namely, the Pre-CARIOUS method.