[7] Brachet, Recherches Experimentales sur les Fonctions du Système Nerveux Ganglionaire, p. 181.
[8] Blaine’s Outlines of the Veterinary Art, third edition, p. 273.
[9] Roget’s Bridgewater Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Physiology, vol. ii. p. 112.
[10] Principles of Physiology, &c., chapters IV. and V.
[11] See p. 14.
[12] For some very curious details on this subject, the reader may consult the last Edition of Dr Mackintosh’s Practice of Physic.
[13] In Latin, cuspis signifies the point of a spear; canis, a dog; mola, a mill; incisor, any thing which cuts.
[14] M. Cadet de Gassicourt recommends the following compound as a safe and excellent dentrifrice, viz. of white sugar and powdered charcoal each one ounce, of Peruvian bark half an ounce, of cream of tartar one drachm and a half, and of canella twenty-four grains, well rubbed together into an impalpable powder. He describes it as strengthening to the gums and cleansing to the teeth, and as destroying the disagreeable odour in the breath which so often arises from decaying teeth; and as a preventive of toothach, I have heard washing the mouth and teeth twice a-day with salt and water strongly recommended by a gentleman who had both experienced and observed much benefit from it.
[15] Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion, by William Beaumont, M.D. Platsburgh, 1833, p. 67.
[16] See Roget’s Bridgewater Treatise, note at p. 58, vol. ii.