1500 –1501 ABULCASIS (ABU AL-QASIM KHALAF IBN AL-ABBAS AL-ZAHRAWI; أبو القاسم خلف بن العباس الزهراوي), [Albucasis] (936 – 1013); GUY DE CHAULIAC, (Guido de Cauliaco) (1298 – 1368); GERARD OF CREMONA, (Gerardus Cremonensis) (1114 – 1187); IBN 'ISÃ AL-KAHHAL, Ali (Jesu Occulist) (980 – ); AMMAR AL MAWSILĪ, Abu'l -l Kāsim (1050 – ); MARROCHINUS, Dominicus ( – 1300); CANAMUSALI DE BALDACH (1220 – )
Chirurgia cum formis instrumentorum (Tr: Gerardus Cremonensis). IN: Guy de Chauliac: Chirurgia parva. Add: Albulcasis: Chirurgia cum formis instrumentorum. Jesus filius Hali: De oculis (Tr: Dominicus Marrochinus). Canamusali de Baldach: De oculis.
The surgical section of Albucasis’s Altasrif, the first rational, complete and illustrated treatise on surgery and surgical instruments. The author was an Arab Muslim physician and surgeon who lived in Al-Andalus. Dur…
GMN 3666.82 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5371
1594 GUILLEMEAU, Jacques (1550 – 1613)
La chirurgie françoise recueillie des antiens médecins et chirurgiens.
Guillemeau was Paré’s son-in-law. His splendidly illustrated work is of special importance for dentistry and for surgery for cleft lip. It describes pyorrhea alveolaris for the first time and is also the first work to…
GMN 3669 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5428
1728 FAUCHARD, Pierre (1678 – 1761)
Le chirurgien dentiste, ou traité des dents. 2 vols.
Pierre Fauchard has been called the “Father of Dentistry”; his comprehensive and scientific account of all that concerned dentistry in the 18th century is one of the greatest books in the history of the subject. The s…
GMN 3671 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5468
1757 BOURDET, Étienne (1722 – 1789)
Recherches et observations sur toutes les parties de l’art du dentiste. 2 vols
“Probably the most significant [French dental] author after Fauchard” (Hoffmann-Axthelm). Bourdet’s greatest contributions were to dental prosthetics. He also described severe periodontoclasia and his treatment of the…
GMN 3673.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5490
1778 HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
A practical treatise on the diseases of the teeth, intended as a supplement to the natural history of those parts.
This and Hunter's The natural history of the human teeth (No. 3675) revolutionized the practice of dentistry and provided a basis for later dental research. Hunter devised appliances for the correction of malocclusion…
GMN 3676 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5505
1791 SERRE, Johann Jacob Joseph (1759 – 1830)
Abhandlung über Flüsse und Entzündungen, wovon Geschwülste und Zahnfleischgeschwüre herrühren.
One of the first treatises on gum diseases, which around a century later would be called periodontics. Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
GMN 12894 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15141
1876 RIGGS, John Mankey (1811 – 1885)
Suppurative inflammation of the gums, and absorption of the gums and alveolar process.
“Riggs’s disease” – pyorrhoea alveolaris. Treatment of the disease by scraping was introduced by Riggs.
GMN 3685 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5679
1902 ZNAMENSKY, N. N.
Alveolar pyorrhoea - its pathological anatomy and its radical treatment.
Znamensky, professor of stomatology in Moscow, had a very clear understanding of periodontitis, and the interaction of local and systemic factors in its etiology. He presented the first description of the histopatholo…
GMN 12619 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14859
1921 GOTTLIEB, Bernhard (1886 – 1950); FLEISCHMANN, L.
A contribution to the histology and pathogenesis of pyorrhea alveolaris.
Gottlieb was "the major periodontal investigator of the early 20th century. He extended the histopathologic studies of Znamensky.... His major contributions were in the nature of the epithelial attachment to the tooth…
GMN 12620 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14860
1922 STILLMAN, Paul Roscoe (1871 – 1945); MCCALL, John Oppie (1879 – 1978)
A textbook of clinical periodontia. A study of the causes and pathology of periodontal disease and a consideration of Its treatment.
“The first authoritative book in the field” (Ring). Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 3690.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5721
1938 GOTTLIEB, Bernhard (1886 – 1950); ORBÁN, Bálint Joseph (1899 – 1960)
Biology and pathology of the tooth and its supporting mechanism
GMN 12621 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14861
1989 HELD, Arthur-Jean (1905 – 1999)
Periodontology, from its origins up to 1980: A survey.
GMN 12607 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14847
2003 CARRANZA, Fermín Alberto (1926 – ); SHKLAR, Gerald (1925 – 2015); WILLIAMS, Ray C.
History of periodontology.
GMN 11118 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13314
