Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth

About this eBook

Author

Brown, Solyman, 1790-1876

Title

Dentologia : A poem on the diseases of the teeth, and their proper remedies

Original Publication

New York: unknown, 1840.

Credits

Tim Lindell, chenzw, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

RK: Medicine: Dentistry

Subject

Teeth -- Poetry

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 77677

Release Date

January 12, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.DENTOLOGIA: A POEM ON THE DISEASES OF THE TEETH,
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.INTRODUCTION.
5. 5.CANTO FIRST.
6. 6.Untitled
7. 7.CANTO SECOND.
8. 8.CANTO SECOND.
9. 9.CANTO THIRD.
10. 10.CANTO THIRD.
11. 11.CANTO FOURTH.
12. 12.CANTO FOURTH.
13. 13.CANTO FIFTH.
14. 14.CANTO FIFTH.
15. 15.APPENDIX. — NOTES. — (1) But lo! their art survives to bless the world. — (2) The teeth, deciduous, totter and decay. — (3) Would shield defenceless infancy from harm. — (4) And patient merit never want a friend. — (5) And seeks from science her appointed part. — (6) And flooding tears, in sad succession rise. — (7) And neither wound too little nor too much. — (8) Let unobstructed nature do the rest. — (9) Descends lamented to an early tomb. — (10) In one, deformity;—the other, pain. — (11) Avoid the danger, or repair the ill. — (12) Should meet resistance from opposing force. — (13) For healthy action on the general frame. — (14) Disgusting objects of deformity! — (15) And spreads delight through all its wide domain. — (16) And hence, defective, only from abuse. — (17) Assigned these organs in the frame of man. — (18) A greedy vampyre, feasting on his heart! — (19) Compared, intemperate luxury! with thine. — (20) And drains destruction from the circling glass. — (21) Crowns high the board; for this the herd has bled. — (22) Suspend forever all their songs of love! — (23) Of bloody banquet for the monster—man! — (24) The safe and luscious diet of mankind. — (25) Nor meet one star that gilds the glowing pole! — (26) Where health and purity should ever reign. — (27) As death disparts the body from the soul. — (28) The brush, the dentrifice, and, from the spring. — (29) And blooming health will soon reward it all. — (30) Restore her hopes, and make her lovely still. — (31) The offspring of an epicurean age. — (32) And bears them all successively away. — (33) A dream forgot, a tale of other years. — (34) Most justly damned to everlasting fame! — (35) And tooth-ache came, the terror of mankind! — (36) To mercy deaf, by sorrowing man accurst. — (37) And stops the fearful progress of decay. — (38) Performs in nature one substantial use. — (39) And pointing to the portal of the tomb. — (40) A shining panoply of orient pearls. — (41) Like Him who fills unnumbered worlds with joy. — (42) Disturb the system when themselves destroyed. — (43) And spreads disease with every pulse that beats. — (44) Each dental malady a thousand ways. — (45) And oft the maniac sufferer expires. — (46) That feels the living impulse of the heart. — (47) May rise terrific from that single source! — (48) Nor asks a staff to guide him to the grave. — (49) Reveals the glories of her kindred sky. — CONCLUSION.
16. 16.LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS.
17. 17.Untitled

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