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
1564 PARÉ, Ambroise (1510 – 1590)
Dix livres de la chirurgie avec le magasin des instruments necessaires à icelle.
Paré’s first general treatise on surgery, and the most comprehensive of his treatises before his collected works (1575). Dix livres included Paré's first description of the use of the ligature in amputations, one of h…
GMN 3668.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6937
1746 MOUTON, Claude ( – 1760)
Essai d’odontotechnie, ou dissertation sur les dents artificielles.
The first specialized book on dental prosthetics.
GMN 3672.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5480
1756 PFAFF, Philipp (1716 – 1780)
Abhandlung von den Zähnen des menschlichen Körpers und deren Krankheiten.
The first important German manual of dentistry. Pfaff, dentist to Frederick the Great, was the first to describe the taking of dental impressions and the casting of models for false teeth. This book ranks in importanc…
GMN 3673 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5485
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
1788 DUBOIS DE CHÉMANT, Nicolas (1753 – 1824)
Dissertation sur les avantages des nouvelles dents, et rateliers artificiels, incorruptibles et sans odeur.
Dubois de Chémant was the first dentist to manufacture porcelain teeth by a process modified from that originally invented by an apothecary named Alexis Duchâteau in 1776. His book was translated into English as A Dis…
GMN 3677 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5521
1808 FONZI, Giuseppangelo (1768 – 1840)
Rapport sur les dents artificielles terro-métalliques.
Fonzi, an Italian dentist living in Paris, produced the first sets of individual porcelain teeth mounted on a base. "While previously the entire mineral denture, both base and teeth, had been fired as a single piece, …
GMN 3679.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5553
1820 DELABARRE, Christophe François (1777 – 1862)
Traité de la partie mécanique de l’art du chirugien-dentiste. 2 vols.
The first scientifically written textbook of dental prosthetics. Delabarre's innovations included clasp retentions, the impression tray, and the palatal obturator. Digital facsimile from gallica.BnF.fr at this link.
GMN 3679.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5603
1821 AUDIBRAN, Joseph ( – 1867)
Traité historique det pratique sur les dents artificielles incorreuptibles, content les procédés de fabrication et dl'application.
One of the first comprehensive works on the production of false teeth, providing 30 or 40 different formulae for their manufacture. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12902 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15149
1835 KOECKER, Leonard (1785 – 1850)
An essay on artifical teeth, obturators, & palates; with the principles for their construction and application: Illustrated by twenty-six cases and twenty-one plates.
In this work "Koecker was the first English writer to describe corectly the principle upon which artifical teeth should be applied and constructed" (Thorpe, Biographies of pioneer American dentists and their successor…
GMN 12869 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15116
1844 GODDARD, Paul Beck (1811 – 1866); PARKER, Joseph E.
The anatomy, physiology and pathology of the human teeth; with the most approved methods of treatment; including operations, and the method of making and setting artificial teeth. With thirty plates
Probably the first comprehensive and comprehensively illustrated general treatise on dentistry published in the United States. It is prefaced with a rather comprehensive historical summary. Digital facsimile from Goog…
GMN 12895 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15142
1913 GREENFIELD, E. J.
Implantation of artificial crown and bridge abutments.
The Greenfield implant system, also known as the Greenfield crib or basket, was one of earliest sucessful dental implants. It consisted of an irioplatinum implant attached to a gold crown. The implant lasted for a num…
GMN 6871 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9035
1928 KENNEDY, Edward
Partial denture construction: A text book describing the technics of impression taking and the construction of that type of removable partial dentures which are supported and retained by external attachments.
First book form exposition of the Kennedy Classification for partially edentulous arches or partial removable dentures. The Kennedy Classification system was originally introduced by Dr. Edward Kennedy in New York in …
GMN 12909 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15156
