A SYSTEM OF ORAL SURGERY: BEING A CONSIDERATION OF THE DISEASES AND SURGERY OF THE MOUTH, JAWS, AND ASSOCIATE PARTS.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1873. Second Edition. Octavo, xx, 17-1091 pages, including plates I-V; plates VI-XVII are not included in the pagination, and are tipped in. No plate XI present in this edition, as issued. In Very Good minus condition. In full brown leather binding; paneled spine with gilt titling on a chipped leather label. Boards are significantly rubbed along edges and at corners. Scuffing to covers, with some peeling along edges. Cracking to leather along joints and spine. Label is partially chipped away, impacting title. Text block is moderately toned, foxed, and worn, with dust soiling to the top edge. Lighter age toning and faint tidemarks throughout; tidemarks more heavily impact plates, most obviously on plates VI and VII. Light pencil numbering and ownership inscription on endpapers. Some small, scatted smudges throughout. Shelved in Room A Octavo Overflow.
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NOTES
Dr. James E. Garretson, also known as the "father of oral surgery," was an influential dentist known for his role in establishing oral and maxillofacial surgery as a specialty in the United States. His most well-known work, A Treatise on the Diseases and Surgery of the Mouth, Jaws and Associate Parts, quicky became hugely influential in 19th-century medial education, bridging the gap between general surgery and dentistry. This work - the second edition, published four years after the first - is "greatly modified and enlarged", with its title updated to reflect Garretson's view of dental surgery as a rigorous system and specialty unto itself.