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Excerpt from On the Claims of Priority in the Exsection and Disarticulation of the Lower Jaw: With an Appendix, Containing the Report of Several Operations
To Dupuytren was reserved the glory of having, in 1812, first removed, by a methodical Operation, a portion of the body of the inferior maxilla; but since tlie innovation of tllo celebrated French surgeon, (the italics are our own, ) the Operation for the partial ex section of this bone has been repeatedly performed.
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