[Dentistry and its remedies in the Netherlands during the 17th century].

Abstract

The XVIIth century is the Golden Century of Holland, liberated from spanish domination, and becoming an economical and political powerful State, owing to maritime trade. Art, Science and literature progress and shine as never equaled. Our investigation is based upon writtings of professors, and those of their students or any other practitioner newly established in Holland, land of liberty. In those writings we are in search of remedies against odontology. Usual therapeutics is all together general and local. General, its evacuated peccant humors by vein section and purgation; local, it acts upon surrounding regions (shoulder, tempel, ear, chin), in the mouth (collutorium), on the tooth or its cavity.