The immortal tooth : the history of the only organ of the human body which has been regarded as being divine, under the protection of the sun, a weapon of defence, a charm, a giver of sovereignty, a symbol of fate, the cause of death and the emblem of life, an object of divers superstitions and myths, and at the same time the key to many scientific problems; The only portion of the human anatomy which has been decorated for religious and aesthetic purposes, has itself been worn as a decoration, has been the subject of endless speculation, the host of an age-old plague, more widespread than any other and still incurable; the only part of man which possesses its own patron saint, which can claim to have produced a false science, a public hoax, and to have saved a million lives and sent more than one man to the gallows / By Edward Samson.