{"title":"Early Dental Trade Card for a Dentist & Cupper.","authors":"Ben Z Swanson, Theodore P Croll","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Very few \"Dentist AND Cupper\" trade cards are known and this is the only illustrated one known to the authors. \"Mr. Glissan, Dentist and Cupper, 147 Blackfriars Road, (London), Teeth extracted for the Poor Gratuitously.\" Above the text and in the center is a eight-sided brass boxed scarificator. Developed in the 18th century as a more humane and efficient instrument for bloodletting than lancets or fleams, scarificators had multiple blades that shot out with the press of a spring-loaded lever creating an instantaneous series of parallel cuts in the skin of the patient. After the cuts were made a warm glass cup (to create a vacuum) was applied to drain blood. Two of these cups are pictured on each side of the scarificator. A mandible to the left and a maxilla to the right are also pictured. An explanation of the ancient procedure of cupping can be accessed at: https://www.webmd.com/balance/guide/cupping-therapy#1 (accessed 30 October 2020). Mr. Glessan's offer of free extractions for the poor is not unknown but seldom found on early dentist's trade cards.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":"69 1","pages":"69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39306165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Victorian Era Kitten Cuisine?","authors":"Theodore P Croll, Ben Z Swanson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Humphrey Bogart's mother (Fig. 1)<sup>1</sup> undoubtedly had a strange sense of humor. How else can one explain Maud Humphrey's bizarre image, on a stock trade card, of a lovely little lass dressed up in her Sunday best lighting the flame under a chafing dish containing two adorable kittens (Figs. 2-5)? Were kitten fondue or kitty feline stew, dishes du jour in Victorian times? Pictured here are three Victorian trade cards, related to dentistry, featuring Maud Humphrey's adorable little kitten chef. Dr. Eli H. Neiman of York, Pennsylvania, and Dr. Charles S. Decker of Binghamton, New York, chose this stock image to advertise their respective dental practices (Figs. 3 & 4), Ramon's Relief pain medication, including toothache relief, and RAMON'S LIVER PILLS AND TONIC PELLETS were available from W.E. JUDAY in West Manchester, Ohio (Figure 4). Note on the reverse of the Dr. Decker card, that for 50 cents \"Vitalized Air for Painless Extracting\" was offered. \"Vitalized Air\" was nitrous oxide altered with small amounts of chloroform and alcohol.<sup>2-4</sup> Could it be that Maud had sniffed a bit of Vitalized Air before rendering her shocking kitty-cooking image?</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":"69 1","pages":"70-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39306166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Female Vanity in the Early Modern Period: Evidence from the Science Based Reassessment of a Supposed Merovingian Dental Appliance.","authors":"Michael Maccheroni, Melanie Fillios, Peter Grave","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Musée de la Cour d'Or, Metz, France, possesses a female skull bearing a gold wire dental appliance claimed in a 1934 <i>Dental Cosmos</i> article on the history of dental prosthetics to be 'probably' Merovingian in origin. Inquiries in 2017 revealed current museum curators were unaware of this claim but were skeptical of such dating, suggesting scientific analysis might provide clarity. Carbon dating of a tooth from the skull was performed placing the artifact in the mid seventeenth-late eighteenth centuries, while Metz historical records reveal the find site was occupied by a convent of nuns for most of C14 dated period. Strontium isotopic analysis indicated that the woman was a local of the Metz region while fluorine analysis indicated exposure to fluoride early in life. Oral health status and the dentistry indicate the woman was of high social status.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":"69 1","pages":"29-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39306160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hemard's <i>Libellus</i>: A Controversy of Translation and Plagiarism in Renaissance Dental Medicine, as Confirmed by a Newly Discovered Copy of Eustachio's <i>de Dentibus</i>.","authors":"Hisham S Ayoub","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 1563, the Italian anatomist Bartolomeo Eustachio published <i>Libellus de Dentibus</i>, the first book on dental anatomy. Subsequently, the surgeon Urbain Hemard authored <i>Recherche de la Vraye Anathomie des Dents</i> in 1582, the first book on dentistry in the French language. Hemard and Eustachio, two names integral in the biblio-historical development of dentistry, have been intertwined in a philological controversy ever since, with historians debating charges of plagiarism. Hemard's commentary on dental anatomy bears striking resemblance to Eustachio's, with the bulk of the text being an exact French translation. This essay will introduce a newly discovered copy of Eustachio's <i>Libellus</i> that bears the signature of Hemard, thus, reinforcing the plagiarism charges. However, the historiographical debate has been buttressed simply on the contents of the two books, with little attention paid to the socio-political influences that could have directed Hemard towards textual annexation. In sixteenth-century Europe, cultural animosity was percolating within political and social spheres, and seeping into the publishing industry. French translations of foreign texts were viewed as a defense against Italian cultural intrusion. This essay will argue that given the prestige of Italian anatomical knowledge, Hemard may have felt justified in annexing the work of his foreign contemporary as a defense of French national identity, and ultimately, since Eustachio was mired in obscurity in his time, he could have seized the opportunity to elevate his status as a great anatomist.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":"69 1","pages":"3-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39306162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fareed Tareen, Vaughn C Ayroso, Manal Tareen, M. Jaafar, Emily Kakos, D. Kamel, A. Spielman
{"title":"Opium.","authors":"Fareed Tareen, Vaughn C Ayroso, Manal Tareen, M. Jaafar, Emily Kakos, D. Kamel, A. Spielman","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv177tk3n.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv177tk3n.7","url":null,"abstract":"Quackery in medicine is as old as medicine itself. In times of crisis, desperate patients often believe extraordinary claims. In the annals of pain-killer quack medicine, elixirs, nostrums and liniments hold a prominent position. NYU College of Dentistry (NYUCD) has a collection of 234 bottles of such medicines dating from the mid-1800s through 1940. This paper is the second in a series of articles featuring \"Elixirs of the Past\" in which we bring to light five more samples containing opium: Dr. B.J. Kendall's Instant Relief for Pain, Dr. Munn's Elixir of Opium, Dill's Balm of Life, Foley's Pain Relief, and Brown's Instant Relief for Pain. These are just five examples out of countless syrups, nostrums, balm or liniments that contained narcotics and were linked to overdose, addiction and sometimes death. In 1906, Congress enacted The Pure Food and Drug Act to stop unsubstantiated medicinal claims and control the use of addictive substances. The modern-day use of internet advertisements to make unsupported claims is in some ways even more brazen than the advertisements from a century ago. Indeed, the recent widespread use of prescription painkillers, along with the resulting epidemic in opiate addiction that has caused upwards of 50,000 deaths is a case in point.","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":"69 1 1","pages":"46-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49634646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dentistry Stereoviews Revisited: Part II Education, Advertising, and Non-satirical Cards.","authors":"Theodore P Croll, Ben Z Swanson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In Part I we showed comical/satirical stereoviews of the 19<sup>th</sup> and early 20<sup>th</sup> centuries, dealing exclusively with ghastly, but comical images of tooth extractions. Humorous stereoviews were not the only dentistry related stereo cards. Stereoviews were used in advertising, education, and as keepsake souvenirs. This report offers pictures and descriptions of such cards.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":"68 1","pages":"54-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38238034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H F Akers, M A Foley, R G Smith, L M Rusten, R J Olive, Rwa McCray, K R El-Atem, J P Brown, V Woodford, A Boi
{"title":"James Meyrick Croker: A Model for Professional Behavior.","authors":"H F Akers, M A Foley, R G Smith, L M Rusten, R J Olive, Rwa McCray, K R El-Atem, J P Brown, V Woodford, A Boi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The rationale that underpins volunteering has long fascinated behavioral scientists. James Meyrick Croker's personal life, professional career and community engagement conform to the classic twentieth century model for professional behavior. Accordingly, the authors use historical methods of investigation to evaluate the influences on and the legacies from a remarkable contribution to the professions and the community. The narrative demonstrates elements of altruism, collaboration, conviction, compassion, drive, entrepreneurialism, familial and grammar school influence, leadership, pragmatism and vision. Croker's professional and community service was multi-organizational. Concurrent demands on his time warranted discipline, energy and expertise. For the behavioral scientist, achievement, affiliation, nature and nurture appear relevant to the outcome. Available archives provide no evidence of ego-driven motivation. Leadership style was transformational not transactional. Major legacies to the national and state Australian Dental Associations are <i>ADAQ Christensen House</i> (1972-1980), the eventual financial stability for the Australian Dental Association Queensland Branch, formal dental assistant training, policies of the Australian and Queensland Councils of Professions, a notable <i>Goddard Oration and the successful 24th Australian Dental Congress</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":"68 1","pages":"12-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38238040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dr. Benjamin Spock's evolving views on infant and toddler dental care.","authors":"Theodore P Croll","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dr. Ted Croll discusses some of the highlights in the life of Dr. Benjamin Spock, renowned pediatrician, along with sharing aspects of his close personal relationship with Dr. Spock.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":"68 1","pages":"8-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38229414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Books on Children's Dental Health and Their Authors.","authors":"Stanley Gelbier, Ari Kupietzky","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Books relating to dental care of children go back many years. This includes care by mothers and the rise of good clinical treatments and prevention by dentists. Most early books were written by a single author. As dentistry developed it became necessary to bring in writers with specialist knowledge, for example on dental materials. In 1952 Walter McBride wrote that children were sometimes described as being \"<i>temperamental and hysterical, notional and incorrigible</i>\". Many practitioners saw them as small adults and offered little treatment. Often they had no idea how to comfort children (Fig. 1). Some dental offices displayed notices that children under the age of 12 years would not be seen. Advice on handling was needed. Books were needed to encourage more dentists to treat children and to raise standards amongst practitioners already treating them. This paper documents and discusses early books that have appeared since 1853. Although of course much care advanced with increased knowledge and skills, it is fascinating to see how much we might still recognize today from the earliest publications.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":"68 3","pages":"145-156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25535211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Little Recognized Dental Implant: The First Unambiguous Example Recovered Archaeologically and Its Relevance Within the Story of Implantology.","authors":"Michael Maccheroni","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Peabody Museum, Harvard, possesses a Mayan dental artifact identified at the time of its initial examination as a dental implant. In spite of this early claim the Peabody catalogue lacks any such appellation applied to the artifact, nor does it note another significant aspect of its original description, namely that it bore dental deposits. The skeletal relationship of the artifact in its original archaeological context is not to be found in written dig records or among photographs of skeletons taken in situ, nor are the exact circumstances of the physical examination that was the basis of the initial description fully revealed. We have only the describer's expressed opinions and quoted correspondence with the finder of the artifact. Although modern forensic record taking would be more rigorous the author's written words leave no doubt as to what he was describing. The argument for accepting it as a dental implant is strengthened in the light of other archaeologically identified, possible attempts at dental implantology wherein a slowly growing number of such artefacts strengthens the argument for ancient precedents for what is generally thought to be a modern innovation. At this time the Mayan stone tooth is the earliest unambiguous dental implant in the history of dentistry.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":"68 3","pages":"169-179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25535214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}