Oral Sepsis: In Its Relationship to Systemic Disease
William W. Duke
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, Sept. 16, 2017)
Excerpt from Oral Sepsis: In Its Relationship to Systemic DiseaseThe discovery of a relationship between ill health and defective teeth is by no means recent. It has received casual mention in the older literature and has been in dependently recognized, perhaps for centuries, by prae titioners of medicine and dentistry. The subject has not received the prominence it deserves, however, previous to the past decade. Ive wish to quote in toto an article published by Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and one of America's most noted physicians, on Observations commenced by him in 1801. This remarkable article, written before the dis covery of bacteria and when our knowledge of pathology was meager indeed, harmonizes in its essentials with the more popular views of the present dav. I have taken the liberty of italicizing several striking sentences.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.