Vintage Medical & Dental Pathology Illustrated Book Published in 1944, Atlas of the Mouth and Adjacent Parts in Health and Disease devoted to everything that can happen inside the human mouth.
Rendered jaws, exposed muscles, dissected tongues, skulls threaded with veins, diseased gums, rotting teeth and mouths pulled open to demonstrate conditions ranging from the completely ordinary to the deeply unpleasant.
There are illustrations documenting the effects of lead exposure, mercury, and radium poisoning. It's a snapshot of an era when industrial materials now notorious for their toxicity were still an everyday occupational reality.
By the time this book appeared in 1944, the devastating consequences of occupational radium exposure had already become infamous through the women later known as the Radium Girls—factory workers who painted luminous watch and instrument dials with radium paint and suffered catastrophic illnesses after repeated exposure.
There are 100 + illustrations, including 19 color plates: anatomical cutaways, skeletal studies, dental development, pathology, lesions, infections and clinical illustrations of mouths in various states of distress.
Details
Title:Atlas of the Mouth and Adjacent Parts in Health and Disease
Authors: Maury Massler, D.D.S., M.S. and Isaac Schour, D.D.S., Ph.D., D.Sc.
Publisher: American Dental Association
Origin: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Date: 1944
Format: Hardcover medical/dental atlas
Subject: Oral anatomy, dentistry, pathology, disease, medical illustration
Condition: Good vintage condition, clean pages. Please review all photographs carefully.
