Category: History - Other
Every dentist who has ever given any thought to the development of his profession must have realized the growing necessity for an accessible and authoritative history of the dental art. The early efforts in this direction by Duval, Fitch, Carabelli, Snell, Linderer, Harris, an...
Every dentist who has ever given any thought to the development of his profession must have realized the growing necessity for an accessible and authoritative history of the den...
3. PART I.The first beginnings of dental art were undoubtedly the same as those of general medicine, for it is evident that in primitive times, when the healing art was still in its rudim...
4. CHAPTER I.Among the people of ancient times, the Egyptian nation was, without doubt, the one in which civilization first took its rise and had its earliest development. From the time of M...
5. CHAPTER II.In the Hebrew literature, as principally represented by the Bible and by the Talmud, there does not exist any book on medicine. Notwithstanding the vicinity and the close relati...
6. CHAPTER III.For above 4000 years science and religion among the Chinese, as well as their customs, have remained quite unchanged. The inhabitants of the Celestial Empire can vaunt a most an...
7. CHAPTER IV.Joseph Murphy, in his book, _A Natural History of the Human Teeth_,[32] says that the natives of Hindostan, especially the Brahmins or priests of Brahma, take extreme care of th...
8. CHAPTER V.An ancient Greek physician—Asklepios, afterward called Æsculapius[41]—by the ability he displayed in the art of healing, so impressed the minds of the simple and uncultured at t...
9. CHAPTER VI.Much earlier than the foundation of Rome (B.C. 753) there flourished in that part of Middle Italy today called Tuscany the highly civilized people known by the name of Etruscans...
10. CHAPTER VII.For many centuries the Romans, according to the saying of Pliny, lived entirely “without doctors, although not without medicine;”[108] that is, there existed without doubt a pop...
11. Chapter XII of the seventh book is, of all the work of Celsus, theHe first speaks of the looseness of the teeth, caused by the weakness of their roots, or by the flaccidity of the gums, and says that in these cases it is necessary to touch the...
12. CHAPTER VIII.The religious fanaticism excited by Islamism, transformed the obscure and nomad inhabitants of Arabia into a conquering nation, who very soon extended their power over a conside...
13. CHAPTER IX.BRUNO OF LONGOBUCCO. After the Arabian period, the first author whom we must mention is Bruno of Longobucco, of the school of Bologna, who lived in the thirteenth century and wr...
14. CHAPTER X.We have now arrived at the sixteenth century. The middle ages, that is, the period of transition between ancient and modern civilization, has now come to an end. Events of the h...
15. Chapter XXXIII: Cure of decayed teeth, according to Galen.It appears very clear, therefore, from the great analogy existing between the headings of all the above-mentioned chapters, that the titles referred to by Geist-Jacobi have not...
16. Chapter XXIX, relating to dental anomalies, is one of the most“Some historians relate that Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, Eurifeus, of Greece, and many others, had, instead of teeth, a continuous bone, furrowed by somewhat deep vertical lines, i...
17. Chapter IV of the same book is most important, for palatal obturatorsare therein spoken of for the first time. “Sometimes a portion of the bone of the palate is destroyed by the shot of an arquebus, or by some other wound or by a syphilitic ulcer...
18. CHAPTER XI.The first signs of the separation of dental science from general medicine were to be perceived in the sixteenth century, the period in which, as we have seen, the earliest denta...
19. CHAPTER XII.Although there have been, even from the most remote times, individuals who have dedicated themselves exclusively to the cure of dental maladies, or to repairing the losses of th...
20. Chapter VII treats of the general causes of dental, alveolar, andgingival diseases, and contains the complete enumeration of these maladies. The causes of dental affections may be of two orders, viz., internal (general diseases, dyscrasic con...
21. Chapter XL (page 177) treats of dental tartar, of its cause, of theharmful effects it produces, and of the prophylaxis and therapy relating thereto. Three illustrations which are added to this chapter represent the different aspects of a mass o...
22. Chapter XXV contains some observations on “_well-authenticated cases“In the year 1708 Mademoiselle Deshayes, now the wife of M. de Sève, residing at Paris in rue de Baune, and who was then fourteen years of age, had the first large molar on the...
23. Chapter XXXV contains twelve cases of serious maladies arising fromdental diseases. One of these cases was observed in a patient aged fifty-seven years, who in consequence of caries of the last inferior molar on the right lost through necrosis...
24. Chapter VI is dedicated to the stopping of decayed teeth. The solematerials used by the author for stopping were lead, tin, and gold. “Fine tin,” he says, “is preferable to lead, for lead turns black much more easily and is much less durable;...