The author never had any opportunity of observing any such anomalies; notwithstanding, he refers to cases of the kind observed by other anatomists of his time, and, in a particular manner, to the case of a triple dental series in a youth who died at the age of eighteen. As the truth of the fact was testified to by highly respectable medical men, Eustachius lends faith thereto. “Neither can it be said”—he adds—“that in the case we are speaking of the new teeth erupted from other sockets before the temporary ones were shed, for there would then have been only a double and not a triple series; indeed, the series would not even have been double along all the line, but only along the line of the temporary teeth; and besides this, the double series would not have been maintained up to eighteen years of age—the time of the death of the subject—but only until the shedding of the deciduous teeth.” “That teeth are sometimes cut in the palate is a fact attested to by Alessandro de Benedetti and others. It has also occurred, within my own experience, to observe this in the person of a Roman woman, who had a tooth in the roof of the mouth, near the opening which is in proximity to the incisors,[296] and at Gubbio there is, in the monastery of the Trinità, a nephew of the distinguished jurisconsult Girolamo Gabrielli, who at the age of eighteen cut a tooth in the middle of the palate.” “Pliny and Solinus tell of individuals born with all their teeth. Other authors, that Pheretes was without teeth all his life.” “I hold it to be a fable that some women lose a tooth for each child they bear.” “In some cases it has happened that the falling out and renewal of the teeth has not taken place before the age of thirteen or fourteen. In other cases, the same teeth were shed and renewed twice, that is, once after the seventh year, and again after the fourteenth year. It ought also to be mentioned that in some young persons of twenty, the last molar, or wisdom tooth, having been drawn, it was renewed during the same year. Lastly, it is also to be noted that in strong and healthy young persons, one of the other molars being extracted, it is sometimes renewed.”[297] In the last chapter[298] the author alludes to some dental affections. In referring to the fluxions to which teeth are subject, he says he has observed more than one case in which such a quantity of matter resembling chalk was collected in the alveoli, that these gradually being filled thereby, all the teeth became loosened and dropped out little by little. Speaking of dental diseases requiring surgical intervention, the author remarks that dental surgery was, in his days, a most abject calling, notwithstanding its having had, according to Cicero, a very high initiator—Æsculapius, the god of medicine.