AN ESSAY ON DENTISTRY FOR THE BENEFIT OF FAMILIES, &C. BY G.Y. SHIRLEY, M.D.
Jacksonville, IL: Wm. C. Swett, Book and Job Printer, 1846. 21, [3 blank] pp. Disbound, closely trimmed at bottom margin, with several words or portions thereof lost from the last line of pages 14-16, 19. Good+.
Dr. Shirley's rare pamphlet discusses diseases of teeth and gums, children's teeth, permanent teeth, correcting the mal-arrangement of teeth, cleaning teeth, filling teeth, extracting teeth, artificial teeth, toothaches.
George Yates Shirley received his Doctor of Medicine degree at Illinois College Medical School in 1845. He was a member of the Illinois State Homeopathic Medical Association, and the Sons of Temperance, Excelsior Division No. 25. While some online family sources and census records note his birth in Virginia in 1805, other sources such as the U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedule list his birth in Kentucky around 1820 and dying by paralysis in 1870. [TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS STATE HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AT ITS NINTH ANNUAL MEETING, Chicago: 1863, Page5; Illinois State Medical Society: THE ILLINOIS MEDICAL JOURNAL,VOLUME 23, 1913, pp.15-17.]
Not in Sabin, American Imprints, Eberstadt, or Byrd. Not at online sites of OCLC, AAS, Univ. IL, U Chicago, Harvard, Yale, as of February 2024. Item #35779
Price: $500.00