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192 THIRD PERIOD—MODERN TIMES
much more explicity, and of having insisted on the utihty of this opera-
tion, indeed, on the duty of carrying it out whenever it seems indicated.
Further, he is the first to mention another very important operation,
namely, transplantation, albeit he himself had never performed it. The
case he refers to has become a generally known anecdote. We give it in

Fig. 6o

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Dental files (Ambroise Pare).

his own words: '^Un homrne digne J'estre creu m^a afjirme quune prin-
cesse ayant fait arracher line dent, s'en fit remettre subit line autre J'line
sienne demoiselle, laqiielle se reprint, et quelque temps apres maschoit
dessus comme siis celle quelle avoit fait arracher auparavant.^'^

' A man, worthy of being believed, has assured me that a certain princess having had a
tooth taken out, immediately had it replaced by another supplied by one of her ladies, which
took root, and after a time she masticated with it as well as she had done with the former
one.