New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-01-28
Communication

MR EDlroR-Havins seen article in your paper OF
this morning calling upon Dr. Parmy Of this City for
public retraction of "a communication published By a
Society for which he is in way amcnabe 10 any ID
iyidun out of it, and for which he is not Individually
responsible hope he will deem notice OF /! wor
thy his atten ton.
If he thinks the subject OF the use Of Mineral ANA.
gam {or in parance. Mineral Pastc) one upon
which the community needs 20 be farther enlightened
there Is no who possesses greater share o. public
confidence whose opinion and judgmen, entitedto
more respect. He may with perfect propriey, and
hope he w take this opportunity to repubish bis views
in relation TO It. trust he will do this without noticing
my attack which has been made upon bin b ndvid.
uas directly indirectly who may be DESTROYS OF eain
ins no,oety BY involving him in professional eontro'
versy.
There are few in the practice of Dental Surgery the
present jay who have the unblushns erontery openly
to svow and advocate the utility Of the article "a your
CORES pondeut has done There men Of chsrsc'
ter and standing the Profession WAC will venture to
assert (however favoraby they may think OF ~ that
the evils arising from the Of Auiagsu for filing
teeth do no, far outweigh the advantages There are
many who rank high In reputation in the commvaity,@
well AS with the profession who nevertheless have been
In tho habit Of using (as they assert with great care
and circumspection who are ready nevertheless 70 al
and declare that the ndiscriminate ue OF 1t most
decidedly injurious and that there but few cases ir
which it be advantageous and they defend them
selves for using what ia the aggregate they allow 10 DC
m extremely dangerous article on tho same principle
that the moderate drnker does the Of ardent spirits
-" It does no harm TO me or coy else IA | use t.
nave heard it said by eminent Dentists that one half
of Teeth which they have extracted since this com
pound into general use have been removed after
they had been operated upon by of the advocates
of Mercuria Fittings. There operators in this CRY
who daily using this preparation ndiscrimnatey
almost all cases without regard 10 individual diosyncf
cy, the peculiar morbid condition Of toe parts CS'es
in which the operators know perfectly well while
they performing the operation that the Teeth must
inevitably be extracted in few hours after account
OF pain 1t needs not than Elk weeks experience
in the profession BE- assured Of this What are they
They have received their fee for filing any one Else
may extract the Teeth. This may seem unehsnnos
but every candid will bear out in the assernon
that such is the fact The opportunity of taking cogn
zarce of such cases Is rare. Well would it be II 'ns
community could be made sensible of the danger 10 b
incurred ard of the risk attendant upon the Insertion "
this vile compound into defective and highly nhaiDe'
tooth. St there will be those who will not believe
every cheratsn mas MS supporters If there are ns's
who will become their dnpes-if there those who
will buy poison and take IT, let them ezcsim 70 aim VINO
sells. cen as did Romeo 10 the apothecary
There is thy gold-~orse poison TO mems souls,
Doing murders 10 tnis lgathsoms world
Than these poor compounds that thou may Sc not sell
sell thee poison-,hou hast sold me none"
O..r.o M THE pRoFTssroS