Excerpt from The Anatomy and Pathology, of the Teeth When, nearly eighteen years ago, I first entered the laboratory of Dr. Carl Heitzmann and listened to his lectures on general histology, I became so thoroughly imbued with the conviction of the correctness of his views that I resolved to study the tissues building up the teeth in the light of the novel doctrine. Ever since I have been a faithful attendant at his laboratory. Besides myself, hundreds of dentists have attended that institution, largely owing to the enthusiastic impulse of my much-lamented friend, the late Dr. William H. Atkinson. As a consequence, a number of these gentlemen, including Professor Frank Abbott, Dr. William H. Atkinson, Dr. John I. Hart, and Dr. F. A. Roy, have enriched dental literature with the results of original investigations, made in the same laboratory, all of which will be found embodied in this book. So long as the cell-theory holds sway over the minds of the majority of microscopists, the views here laid down cannot meet with general acceptance. As early as 1859 no less a man than Thomas H. Huxley declared that the history of the development of the teeth was not intelligible upon the grounds of the cell-theory. We to-day can state that neither the normal nor the morbid anatomy of the tissues is explicable on the basis of that theory. How long it will be before the novel views advanced by Dr. Carl Heitzmann, and which are directly antagonistic to the cell-theory, will gain a final victory it is impossible to foretell. 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.