A GOOD WORD FOR DENTISTS.
Dr. Wendell Holmes has been saying a good word for the dentists. He referred with compassion to the forlorn condition of some of the great personages of history in the days when there were no dentists, as, for instance, "poor King David, a worn-out man at seventy, probably without teeth and certainly without spectacles," and Walter Savage Landor and his "melancholy complaint that he did not mind losing his intellectual faculties, but loss of hi? teeth he felt to be a very great calamity." Of the dental profession the doctor said : "It has established and prolonged the reign of beauty ; it has added to the charms of social intercourse and lent perfection to the accents of eloquence ; it has taken from old age its most unwelcome feature, and lengthened enjoyable human life far beyond the limit of the years when the toothless and poor blind patriarch might well exclaim, • I have no pleasure in them,'"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7644, 22 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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