The Pathology of Dental Infections and Its Relation to General Diseases (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Macvicar, W. M.

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ISBN 10: 133030330X ISBN 13: 9781330303306

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2016

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Dr. Weston A. Price was a controversial but diligent researcher in his own time and his work continues to fit that description to this day. In 'The Pathology of Dental Infections and Its Relation to General Diseases', Price notes the comparative lack of vigour and presence of chronic conditions in his younger patients. Driven to find a solution he hypothesized that perhaps there was a common cause or factor.

He formulated a daring theory which linked dental and general physical health in his patients. Price's theory relates to focal infections, infections which Price believed were major causes in a large number of deaths. These focal infections primarily occurred above the shoulder and particularly of interest to him, in the teeth. He demanded an increase in dentists, dental care and an aggressive drive to improve the state of human health across the world.

His infectious enthusiasm and belief in widening the reach of healthcare is heartening and whilst not all his conclusions are backed up today, his research was is still significant for the modern dental practitioner. His call for closer integration between health care professions was a goal that doctors and dentists today could applaud but he bemoans the lack of vision in his contemporaries and yearns for a more enlightened world.

This book will be of keen interest to dentists, medical professionals, historians and those with an interest in public health campaigning. Price possessed scientific understanding as well as a broad base of professional experience and a genuine drive to improve lives which any person could learn from.

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Excerpt from The Pathology of Dental Infections and Its Relation to General Diseases

In the year 1905 a committee of dentists of Toronto was formed to communicate with the manufacturers of the tooth preparations then on the market to ascertain the composition of each, because they believed that a dentist should not recommend any preparation of which he did not know the ingredients.

Finding there was no satisfaction to be obtained in this direction as to the formulæ of these preparations, arrangements were made to have them chemically analyzed, thus ascertaining that in most of the samples were ingredients which should not exist in an ideal mouth preparation.

The Canadian Oral Prophylactic Association was then organized to have manufactured preparations which should contain nothing which was not beneficial.

After much consideration and consultation a paste was manufactured under the registered name "Hutax" (meaning mouth health). Later a powder was placed on the market, and last a tooth brush.

These articles are the result of frequent consultations with many of the leading practitioners, not only in Toronto, but of the Dominion of Canada and the United States.

The shareholders of the Canadian Oral Prophylactic Association originally subscribed$5.00 each for "the good of the cause," and the charter of incorporation provides that the profits are to be expended for educational and philanthropic purposes, such as (a) bringing prominently before the public important information, which the dentist has, as to the influence of conditions of the mouth on the general health. (b)Care of the teeth of the poor, (c)Assisting the indigent in the profession of dentistry. Thus no director or shareholder receives directly or indirectly any dividends or other remuneration.

Every dentist may recommend "Hutax" preparations with a confident consciousness that there is nothing better on the market, and that the profits will be utilized for the good of the profession and of humanity.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This 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.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 133030330X
• ISBN 13: 9781330303306
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 28