Cobb's Anatomy

In the main, though, we are born without teeth. We are born without a number of things--clothes for example--although Anthony Comstock is said to be pushing a law requiring all children to be born with overalls on; but teeth is the subject which we are now discussing. This absence of teeth tends to give the very young of our species the appearance in the face of an old fashioned buckskin purse with the draw string broken.