Introductory lecture on mechanical dentistry : written for delivery at the Sheffield Medical School at the opening of the session in the year 1864 / by Mr. Gillam Moseley, dental surgeon, 203, Bath Buildings, Sheffield.

  • Moseley, Gillam.
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[1864]
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Credit: Introductory lecture on mechanical dentistry : written for delivery at the Sheffield Medical School at the opening of the session in the year 1864 / by Mr. Gillam Moseley, dental surgeon, 203, Bath Buildings, Sheffield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    his patient, which could not have been expressed before without such aid. Heister, the German alluded to, was, as I have said, the first to introduce this great boon to sufferers from cleft palate or congenital fissure of the palate hones, and some of his instructions for the proper adminis- tration of a substitute for the perforated or lost palate are followed to the present day, though with such im- provements as have been suggested by a better and more scientific knowledge of what is required, better material for the purpose, and better practice in mecha- nical dentistry. Considerable improvements were made in the con- struction and mode of adapting teeth by Beardmore in 1723; and Bourdet, also a Frenchman, derived consi- derable credit for successfully adapting whole sets of teeth for the unfortunate losers, and also for materially improving the instruments then commonly used by dentists; whilst to Falina is ascribed the introduction of the use of natural teeth, which were then placed on gold palates with wire. It was not until the year 1776 that one of the most important inventions then discovered in connection with dentistry was promulgated by Monsieur Ducha- teau, who communicated to the French Academy his discovery of the secret of manufacturing teeth, which were composed of a silicious compound something like porcelean. They considered it of so much importance that he was at once elected a member of that distinguished body for his invention. He, however, like many other inventors, lost the benefit of his discovery; for though there is very little doubt that he was the original dis- coverer, a Monsieur Dubois du Chamant, in the year 1789, not only claimed it as his own, but, after having had a trial in a court of law respecting it, the honour of