1478 GUY DE CHAULIAC, (Guido de Cauliaco) (1298 – 1368); PANIS, Nicolaus
Chirurgia [French]. Translated by Nicolaus Panis.
Guy de Chauliac studied medicine and surgery in Montpellier and Paris, and served as the personal physician to Popes Clement VI, Innocent VI and Urban V. His Chirurgia magna, written in the early 1360s, remained a sta…
GMN 3666.83 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5376
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
1525 THOMAEUS, Nicholas Leonicus (Niccolò Leonico Tomeo) (1456 – 1531)
Opuscula nuper in lucem aedita quorum nomina proxima habentur pagella.
Thomaeus's commentary on Aristotle's Mechanica includes an explanation of the action of a dental forceps illustrated with two small woodcut illustrations on page XXXXI. This was the first printed dental illustration. …
GMN 12773 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15019
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
1655 SCHULTES, Johannes [SCULTETUS] (1595 – 1645)
Χειροπλοθήκη seu armamentarium chirurgicum.
Scultetus is famous for his illustrations of surgical procedures and both surgical and dental instruments. With respect to dentistry he describes and illustrates stomatological operations and includes fine illustratio…
GMN 3669.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6982
1754 LÉCLUSE DU THILLOY, Louis (1711 – 1792)
Nouveaux élémens d’odontologie, contenant l’anatomie de la bouche ou la description de toutes les parties qui la composent et de leur usage; et la pratique abrégée du dentiste.
Lecluse treated in a succinct but correct manner the anatomy of the mouth; invented some and perfected other instruments, the most important of which is the elevator that still bears his name, and . . . he frequently …
GMN 12848 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15095
1805 GARIOT, Jean Baptiste
Traité des maladies de la bouche d'après l'état actuel des connoissances en medécine et en chirurgie, qui comprend la structure et les fonctions de la bouche, l'histoire de ses maladies, les moyens d'en conserver la santé et la beauté et les operations particulières à l'art du dentiste.
Gariot promoted himself as "Dentist to King of Spain." "The invention of articulators for holding the casts of artifical teeth is attributed to ...J. B. Gariot. Gariot designed his first model in 1805 from impressions…
GMN 12855 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15102
1828 MAURY, J. C. F. (pseudonym of Auguste Tillet); TILLET, Auguste
Traité complet de l’art du dentiste, d'après l'état actuel des connaissances. Par F. Maury. 2 vols.
Maury probably invented the dental probe. His book also shows one of the earliest illustrations of a dental mouth mirror. According to Quérard, F. Maury is the pseudonym of Auguste Tillet: "Table alphabétique de la pl…
GMN 3679.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5611
1831 SNELL, James
A practical guide to operations on the teeth. To which is prefixed a historical sketch of the rise and progress of dental surgery.
In this work Snell described and illustrated his "operating chair," the first reclining dental chair with adjustable headrest. The chair also had a convenient mirror mounted on one of the arms for the patient to look …
GMN 12865 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15112
1848 TOMES, Sir John (1815 – 1895)
A course of lectures on dental physiology and surgery.
Tomes invented a set of anatomically correct forceps for tooth extraction, thereby elevating this device, which had been previously neglected, to dentistry’s most important extraction instrument. This book was revised…
GMN 3683 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5658
1860 SNOWDON & BROTHER
Illustrated wholesale catalogue of surgical and dental instruments, elastic trusses, medical saddle bags, abdominal supporters, shoulder braces and druggists sundries, offered by Snowden & Brother.
Snowden & Brother provided an excellent selection of the exact types of equipment used by the Union Army during the Civil War. Facsimile reprint, with John Weiss & Son 1863 catalogue, with a new introduction by James …
GMN 10495 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12688
1867 –1872 GAUJOT, Constantin Mametz Gustav (1828 – 1913); SPILLMANN, Eugène-Pierre
Arsenal de la chirurgie contemporaine. Description, mode d'emploi et appréciation des appareils et instruments en usage pour le diagnostic et le traitement des maladies chirurgicales, l'orthopédie, la prothèse, les opérations simples, générales, spéciales et obstétricales. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 14321 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16646
1876 WHITE, Samuel Stockton (1822 – 1879)
Catalogue of dental materials, furniture, instruments, etc.
White, who characterized himself as "Manufacturer, importer, and wholesale dealer in all articles appertaining to dentistry," was the leading U.S. manufacturer of dental supplies during the 19th century. His 1876 cata…
GMN 10494 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12687
1908 BLACK, Greene Vardiman (1836 – 1915)
A work on operative dentistry. 2 vols.
Black established a system of cavity preparation from which modern techniques have been derived. He constructed a “gnathodynamometer” with which the pressure exerted on the human tooth and therefore on the filling mat…
GMN 3689.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5712
1914 BURROUGHS WELLCOME & CO.
The dental art in ancient times: Lecture memoranda. American medical Association, Atlantic City, 1914.
A very well illustrated serious pocket guide (214pp.) to elements of the history of dentistry including equipment through the ages and marketing information for equipment then available to dentists. Digital facsimile …
GMN 13070 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15322
1921 CLAUDIUS ASH, SONS & CO., LTD.
A century of dental art. A centenary memoir 1820-1921.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12923 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15170
1966 CAMPBELL, John Menzies (1887 – 1974)
Catalogue of the Menzies Campbell collection of dental instruments, pictures, appliances, ornaments, etc.
GMN 12912 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15159
1986 BENNION, Elisabeth
Antique dental instruments.
GMN 3705.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4451
