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

  • Bernard J. Cigrand
Date:
1892
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    ians were imitative rather than creative, and the art bore at every period the marks of foreign influence, especially Egyptian, Babylonian and Grecian. Nothwithstanding that the Etrurian dentists paterned much after the oriental artists yet much credit is due them for having perfected many dental operations of a more difficult character. We shall in the near future know more about the accomplish- ments of the Etrurians, since many archeologists are hard at work solving the language of these grand people. They left us no key to their strange lang- uage, and no history except that which is written in the tombs: hence all we know of them is from ad- jacent and contemporary nations of people: numer- ous are the theories advanced as regards derivation or origin of the Etrurian race. Simultaneous with the discovery of the key to the language shall come a. long, interesting and profitable lesson relative to their attainments as dental practioners. The Etrurians like the (xreeks and Romans held great faith in the mythological gods, and much like the oriental peo])lc sought the good will of the angry immortals, by prayers, votive offering and sacrifices. Their priests, wliom they called luciinios, were the guards and guides of the various religious and medical temples; but tlie medical [)rofession with its
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