{"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":null,"pages":null},"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, Mike Jaafar, Emily Kakos, Dina Kamel, Andrew I Spielman
{"title":"Opium.","authors":"Fareed Tareen, Vaughn C Ayroso, Manal Tareen, Mike Jaafar, Emily Kakos, Dina Kamel, Andrew I Spielman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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: <i>Dr. B.J. Kendall's Instant Relief for Pain</i>, <i>Dr. Munn's Elixir of Opium, Dill's Balm of Life, Foley's Pain Relief,</i> and <i>Brown's Instant Relief for Pain</i>. 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 <i>The Pure Food and Drug Act</i> 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.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39306161","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":"The influence of Guy's Hospital and Dental School on children's dental health.","authors":"Stanley Gelbier, Helen Nield, Rachel Bairsto","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Guy's Hospital and its dental school have an illustrious history. It is the hospital where the first known UK lecture on dentistry was delivered to students in 1799. This paper examines its history and involvement with general and specialist children's dentistry, for which many dental staff helped to raise clinical standards. Interestingly, a number of leading graduates went to the USA for postgraduate study, more than from any other UK school. Many were financed by a travelling bursary endowed by the founding Dean, Frederick Newland-Pedley and have returned to be major players on the British scene, some in children's dentistry.</p><p><p>By its very nature this research cannot claim to be exhaustive. Hopefully other researchers will add further information.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39306163","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":"Historical Perspectives on the Use of Kalium and Natrium on Putrescent, Infected Dental Pulps.","authors":"Francisco Chapman, James L Gutmann","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the late 1800s, subsequent to the identification of the role of oral bacteria in the demise of the dental pulp by Willoughby D. Miller, the dentist was faced with the major challenge of removing gangrenous pulp tissue from the small root canal spaces in the tooth. Under these clinical circumstances, investigators viewed the root canal contents as a test tube filled with gelatinous, decaying matter along with being overwhelmed by a wide range of bacterial species. One of the first attempts to eradicate the root canal contents was achieved through the use of kalium (potassium) and natrium (sodium) in their metallic state and with that approach the sparks did fly.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39306164","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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":"Archaeological/Anthropological Dental Artefacts: Lost, Forgotten, and Intriguingly Possible.","authors":"Michael Maccheroni","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many artefacts important to the history of dentistry have disappeared from collections. The missing artefacts represent dental techniques of many cultures and all historical eras. The artifact collections include those of major first world institutions and private collections. Many of the artefacts were collected in the early days of scientific archaeology and museum curation and hopefully are simply lying unforgotten in storage. As if to compensate for the disappointment of such failures, hope lies in literary texts that speak of artefacts that may yet be discovered.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38238035","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":null,"pages":null},"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}