The rise, fall and revival of dental prosthesis / by B.J. Cigrand.

  • Bernard J. Cigrand
Date:
1893
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Credit: The rise, fall and revival of dental prosthesis / by B.J. Cigrand. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EGYPTIAN DENTAL ART. Before entering into a detailed account of Egyp- tian dental art it is necessary to remind the student of ancient history of a few latent facts, in order that liberal allowance may be given to ancient tra- ditions, narratives and history. In the year 332 B. C. Alexander the Great founded in Upper Egypt a city which he appro- priately named Alexandria, and made it the capitol of Egypt. Alexander had been a faithful student under Aristotle, and it was his ambition to establish in his newly planned city the largest library and museum of the world. He, however, died a few years subsequent to the founding, had he lived a score years longer his anticipations would have been real- ized, for we learn that in 321 B. C. the library and museum contained upward of 700,000 volumes, and as many more rolls of papyri, thus the most remark- able collection of the ancient world,* containing the literature, art and science of Greece, Italy, Phoeni- cia, Arabia, India, China and Continental Europe. In connection with this voluminous library was the museum in which, at public expense, all the students of the world gathered and studied under the imme- ♦Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. I., p. 498. American Cjxlopaedia, vol. I., p. 291. Peoples’ Encyclopaedia, vol. I., p. 58.
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