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164 THIRD PERIOD—MODERN TIMES

[The accompanying reproduction of the title page and two text pages from an edition
of Zahnarzneybuchlein, printed by Michael Blum, in Leipzig, 1530, and translated below,
is of interest in connection with the history of the use of gold-foil as a filling material,
in that a marginal note refers to Mesne as the author from whom the three methods of
treating caries has been derived, one of these methods being the filling of the carious
cavity with gold-foil.
Mesne was Surgeon to the Caliph Haroun al Raschid, who flourished 786-809. If the
reference to Mesne is correct, it would, therefore, indicate that the filling of teeth with
gold was known to the Arabs as early as the latter part of the eighth century. Examina-
tion of the writings of Mesue has thus far failed to bring to light any record therein of
the treatment of caries by gold filling, although in his work previously referred to (see
page 138) the other methods quoted by the anonymous author of Zahnarzneybuchlein
are fully set forth.

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FIFTH CHAPTER.
ON CARIOUS AND HOI.LOW TKKTH.
Corrosion is a disease and defect of the teeth when they become carious and hollow,
which most often happens in the molars, especially if one does not clean them of the