Specification of Nicholas Dubois de Chemant : artifical teeth.

  • Nicolas Dubois de Chémant
Date:
1856
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Credit: Specification of Nicholas Dubois de Chemant : artifical teeth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Edw® Montagu. De Chemanfs Composition for Making Artificial Teeth, fire, which will make it fit for the intended springs ; after passing it through a mixture of three fourths of common water and one of aquafortis, you twist it hard round a mandrill of the thickness of which you wish to make the spring, that is, in proportion to the hinges in which it is to be put. The hinges must also be made of gold of the same standard; they are soldered on a plate of 5 gold, which is placed on the side of the set of teeth. The flat part of the hinge must be bored with a hole large enough for a strong pin, through which hole you pass the pin which is to join the spring to the hinge, taking care to solder a plate of gold to the bottom of the hinge, which should be about one eighth of an inch in length and one tenth in thickness within. Single, double, 10 ti’eble, &c*. teeth are fastened in the usual known manner. In witness whereof, I, the said Nicholas Dubois de Chemant, have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Tenth day of June, in the year ’ of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-one. N. DUBOIS DECHEMANT. (l.s.) 15 AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Tenth day of June, in the year above written, the aforesaid Nicholas Dubois de Chemant, came before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifica¬ tion aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided. Inrolled the same Tenth day of June, in the year above mentioned. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1856.