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The Changing Incidence and Mortality of Infectious Disease In Relation To Changed Trends in Nutrition
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For many years pathologic lesions of the oral cavity received a consideration purely mechanistic, both as to cause and treatment, from the medical and dental professions. With knowledge of bacterial activity and later
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