Vincenzo Guerini

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

PART I. FIRST PERIOD ANTIQUITY. INTRODUCTION.

PART II. SECOND PERIOD THE MIDDLE AGES. CHAPTER VIII. THE ARABIANS.

PART III. THIRD PERIOD MODERN TIMES. CHAPTER X. THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

FOOTNOTES:

INDEX.

Transcriber’s note: No major corrections have been made in the text, except a few to have consistency in spelling and hyphenations. Captions have been added to the portraits of dentists for clarity.

The book cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF

THE NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A
History of Dentistry

FROM THE MOST ANCIENT TIMES
UNTIL THE END OF THE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

BY
Dr. VINCENZO GUERINI, Cav. Uff.

SURGEON-DENTIST, NAPLES, ITALY; DENTIST BY APPOINTMENT TO THE ROYAL HOUSE; DENTIST OF THE
SURGICAL CLINIC OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES; EDITOR OF THE ITALIAN REVIEW
L’ODONTO-STOMATOLOGIA; AUTHOR OF MANY ODONTOLOGICAL WORKS;
HONORARY PRESIDENT AD VITAM OF THE ITALIAN ODONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY; MEMBER OF THE ITALIAN SOCIETY
OF SCIENTISTS, LITERARY MEN, AND ARTISTS; OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF THE CROWN OF ITALY; DOCTOR
OF DENTAL SURGERY AD HONOREM OF THE CHICAGO COLLEGE OF DENTAL SURGERY; HONORARY
MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION, U.S.A.; MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL OF THE FEDERATION DENTAIRE INTERNATIONALE; TITULAR MEMBER
OF THE SOCIETY OF THE PARIS DENTAL SCHOOL AND DISPENSARY;
HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ODONTOLOGICAL
SOCIETY OF MALAGA, ETC.

With 104 Engravings and 20 Plates

LEA & FEBIGER
PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK
1909

Copyright, 1909
by the
National Dental Association of the
United States of America