A practical treatise on artificial crown- and bridge-work / By George Evans. With 500 illustrations.
- George Evans
- Date:
- 1888
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A practical treatise on artificial crown- and bridge-work / By George Evans. With 500 illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.
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![INTRODUCTIOK Of the origin of the art of dentistry no one can speak with cer- tainty, as its early history is shrouded in the mists of anti(^uity; ])ut dental operations are recorded in \ery remote times. Kefereuces are made to the art in tlie writings of Hippocrates, in the tit'th century B.C. Martial, the Latin poet, in the first century B.C., says that a Jloiuan dentist Cascellius is iti the habit of fastening as well as extracting the teeth. To Lelius he says, You are not ashamed to purchase teeth and hair; and adds tliat the toothless mouth of Egle was repaired with hone and ivory; also, that Galla, more refined, removed her artificial teeth during the night. Horace, in the same century, cites the case of the sorceresses Canidia and Sagana running through the city and losing the one her false hair, the other her false teeth. Galen, the celebrated physician, in the second century a.d., also speaks of the art of dentistry as being then practiced. These early operations were limited to the extraction of offending teeth and the replacement of those which had been lost with substitutes which were retained in position by means of narrow bands or ligatures attaching them to the adjoining natural teeth, and without the use of plates. Crude as thev were, they formed the first expression of the art of dentistry, a beneficent art from the beginning, in that it sought to restore pathological or accidental defects. Confined to the simplest operations, it existed for centuries, and then was apparently](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21223105_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
