PTER VII.
Filling, part Tin, part Gold--Cervical Margin Liable to
Caries--Electrolysis--Hand Pressure--Hand Mallet--Tapes and
Ropes Compared--Manner of Preparing Foil--Starting the
Filling--Cylinders--Mats--Facing and Repairing--Tin
Shavings--Dr. Herbst's Method--Fees 56

CHAPTER VIII.
Dr. Robinson's Fibrous and Textile Metallic Filling--Tin and
Gold combined (Tg), Methods of Preparing and Using--Lining
Cavities with Tin--Tin and Amalgam--Plastic Tin--Stannous
Gold--Crystal Tin--Filling Root-Canals--Tin and Watts's
Sponge Gold--Capping Pulps 66

CHAPTER IX.
Temporary Fillings--Sensitive Cavities--Integrity--Tin with
Sponge, Fibrous, and Crystallized Gold--Tin at Cervical
Margin--Filling Completed with Gold--Gutta-Percha and Tin--
Occlusal Cavities with Tin and Gold--Comparison of Gold with
Tin--Wedge-shaped Instruments--Old Method of Using Rolls,
Ropes, Tapes, or Strips--Later Method--Filling with Compact
and Loose Balls--Cylinder Fillings--Operative Technics 91

CHAPTER I.

Moses, who was born 1600 B.C., mentions tin, and history records its use
500 B.C., but not for filling teeth; much later on, the Ph[oe]nicians
took it from Cornwall, England, to Tyre and Sidon.

The alchemistic name for tin is Jove, and in the alchemistic
nomenclature medicinal preparations made from it are called Jovial
preparations.

Hindoo native doctors give tin salts for urinary affections. Monroe,
Fothergill, and Richter claim to have expelled worms from the human
system, by administering tin filings.

Blackie, in "Lays of Highlands and Islands," referring to tin as money,
says,--

"And is this all? And have I seen the whole
Cathedral, chapel, nunnery, and graves?
'Tis scantly worth the tin, upon my soul."

"Tin-penny."--A customary duty formerly paid to the tithingmen in
England for liberty to dig in the tin-mines.

In 1846, Tin (Stannum, symbol Sn) was found in the United States only at
Jackson, N. H. Since then it has been found, to a limited extent, in
West Virginia and adjoining parts of Ohio, North Carolina, Utah, and
North Dakota. The richest tin mines of the world, however, are in
Cornwall, England, which have been worked from the time of the
Ph[oe]nician discovery.

The tin which is found in Malacca and Banca, Indi