DENTAL SURGERY.--In the observations on the progress of Geography and
Ethnology, by Mr. John Russell Bartlett, read at the Meeting of the New
York Historical Society in November and December, 1846, it is mentioned
that in the exploration of a tumuli carried on by Dr. M. W. Dickeson,
in the South-western States, chiefly in Mississippi, although in some
instances extending to Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas, he found that
Dentistry had been extensively practised by this ancient people, as
plugging the teeth and inserting artificial ones, were common. In one
instance five artificial teeth were found inserted in one subject.