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SPOONER, SHEARJASHUB. Guide to Sound Teeth; or, A Popular Treatise on the Teeth. 12mo, 184x111 mm, 20th-century brown leather gilt with red morocco lettering pieces, front joint partly cracked; ink stain in lower outer corners through most of volume. Contemporary signature of D. W. Seager on title; 19th-century stamps of Dr. Ricardo Figueroa, Cirujano Dentista, Mexico. New York, 1836
first edition. "John Roach Spooner, an American living in Montreal, was the first to use arsenous acid to devitalize the pulp. This discovery was first published in the above work by his brother"--Garrison-Morton 3679.7. Asbell 4.
