Abstract
SMITH'S “Dental Metallurgy” is read by so many dental students that the goodness or badness of the text has a considerable influence on the stage of knowledge of the embryo surgeon-dentist. Thus for many years it was impossible, even with the help of photomicrographs showing the two metals in patches like the stripes on a zebra., to convince the dental student that a eutec-tic was a mixure, because the author of this book had declared that such a patchwork might be a chemical compound ! This error has, fortunately, been corrected in the new edition, which shows many useful improvements resulting from the incorporation of the rudiments of modern scientific metallurgy.
A Manual on Dental Metallurgy.
By Ernest A. Smith. Fourth edition. Pp. xvi + 285. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1920.) Price 12s. 6d. net.
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L., T. A Manual on Dental Metallurgy . Nature 106, 594 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106594a0
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