The Dental cosmos . Metallic fixture adjusted on lower teeth toradaptation of springs to hold upper den-ture in place. 1244 THE DENTAL COSMOS. of his predecessors. As he seems to havebeen the first to construct such formid-able apparatus, the ingenuity which hedisplayed in their contrivance entitleshim to much credit. Dr. John H. Meyerof New York, in the Cosmos for Sep-tember 1906, has an account of asuccessful plate-obturator, embodying aprinciple for which he gives proper creditto Pare (1541) and Fauchard (1728). Fig. 15. Instruments for cleaning. Fauchard was the first to really de-scribe a
The Dental cosmos . Metallic fixture adjusted on lower teeth toradaptation of springs to hold upper den-ture in place. 1244 THE DENTAL COSMOS. of his predecessors. As he seems to havebeen the first to construct such formid-able apparatus, the ingenuity which hedisplayed in their contrivance entitleshim to much credit. Dr. John H. Meyerof New York, in the Cosmos for Sep-tember 1906, has an account of asuccessful plate-obturator, embodying aprinciple for which he gives proper creditto Pare (1541) and Fauchard (1728). Fig. 15. Instruments for cleaning. Fauchard was the first to really de-scribe a scorbutic affection called by theolder writers conjoined suppuration ofthe alveoli and gums/ and as his re-marks, says Jourdain, evince consum-mate experience, it has been called Fau-chards disease—la maladie de Fau-chard. He argued that it had a localrather than a constitutional cause, andbelieved that the only radical cure wasextraction. THE FIELD COVERED BY FAUCHARDsWORK. A careful reading of the list of sub-jects treated in Fauchards work, says Dr. Trueman, will show how fully andsystematically he covered the wholeground of dental science, and refutes thecommon idea that dentistry in his dayconsisted in tooth-pulling and tooth-re-placing. In my judgment, as an originaland comprehensive exponent of dentalscience it had no rival in the Englishtongue until Chapin A. Harris Prin-ciples and Practice had reached its sec-ond or third edition. After a long and honorable career, thisillustrious professional ancestor o
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