30 DECEMBER 1837, Page 17

In point of manner, Mr. MnaPnr's Popular Treatise on the

Teeth is somewhat empirical, but not at all in matter, unless it be in his recommendation of members of families learning to practice the simpler operations on one another. The chief novelties, so far as books are concerned, (for we believe they are not at all new in practice,) are the author's recommendation of porcelain or artificial teeth instead of natural ones, and the use of silver amalgam with filings as a paste stopping, when decay has pro- ceeded too far for the application of gold. Directions are given for the making of both articles.