1493 RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی‎ ] (854 – 925); ARCOLANI, Giovanni [Arculanus] (1390 – 1460); SURIANUS, Hieronymus (Girolamo Suriano) ( – 1522); SANSEVERINUS, Elyanorus

Practica. IN: Liber nonus ad Almansorem (cum expositione Joannis Arculani). Ed: Hieronymus Surianus and Elyanorus Sanseverinus.

Arcolani's Practica, published in this edition of Rhazes with Arcolani's commentary, includes the first documentation for the use of gold for filling diseased teeth. There are also several chapters on diseases of the …

GMN 3666.84 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5385

1857 ARTHUR, Robert (1819 – 1880)

A treatise on the use of adhesive gold foil.

In 1855, Robert Arthur discovered that by heating the gold foil impurities could be driven off, and the gold could be made to adhere to itself, a property known as cohesion. He passed each portion of foil through a fl…

GMN 12886 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15133

1907 TAGGART, William Henry (1855 – 1933)

A new and accurate method of making gold inlays.

Taggart invented the modern method of making gold inlays.

GMN 3689.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5709